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Machku t1_je73oxg wrote

Never seen blue eggs before

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AnnoyedOwlbear t1_je7n7be wrote

Araucana crosses - also known as 'Easter Eggers'. Something I'm a lil' jealous over (they aren't here).

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Newdles t1_je84vyq wrote

I've got a cream legbar that does blue also. It's a type of cross with aruacana though. She's a turd though and always escapes the enclosure. They are known for flying everywhere and digging up your garden etc. 0/10 do not recommend.

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ccwthrow t1_je9g1ix wrote

Ayyy I've got a couple CLBs coming next month. Can't wait for them to fuck up my garden too (their older sisters no doubt will show them the way)

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Newdles t1_je9pk1w wrote

I'm so sorry. She's my most stubborn bird. She also lays the least. Sorry to disappoint. I'd have rather just gotten more Rhode island reds...

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ccwthrow t1_je9r24q wrote

So far from disappointed! I love collecting different breeds and different Chicken-alities! So I'm excited to add more stubborn birds. (My 2 most stubborn are a Barred Rock and Oliver)

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margueritjie t1_je90php wrote

Yes not different breeds as OP says. Just one breed: the easter egger. :)

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JustGimmeAnyOldName t1_je9d23d wrote

Easter egger is a generic term used by people who raise chickens for a bird bred with Araucana or Ameraucana to gain the colored egg laying gene. It isn't an actual breed at all. It's just a colloquial term.

Also, Easter Eggers specifically refers to the blue gene, and creates shades from blue to green. Some birds it doesn't take well at all, and they produce barely colored eggs. Others produce a bright brilliant blue.

Other colors, like the browns, reds, and pinks, come from other breeds of chicken like marans. I've even had barred rocks and orpingtons lay browns.

Easter egger though, is the chicken equivalent of a mutt, as long as the mutt contains the blue egg gene.

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supplenupple t1_je9aja7 wrote

Easter eggers don’t lay brown, especially not the deep chocolate brown. That’s either marans, Bible elder or one other I can’t think of

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ccwthrow t1_je9g7he wrote

I have an Oliver Eggers that didn't get the green-gene and so she lays dark brown like a Maran

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petejones1955 t1_je78qn0 wrote

>Never seen blue eggs before

We get our eggs from a local farm, definitely have been some blue ones

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daqwid2727 t1_je76c1q wrote

My father had a duck, and it was laying kind of blue eggs. I think the image is a bit saturated though.

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cownan t1_je8n3bi wrote

My neighbors, growing up, kept a bunch of chickens. Guinea hens laid little pale blue green eggs.

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sevargmas t1_jea1f4a wrote

Maybe you are only referring to chickens but, look up robin eggs. They are a beautiful blue.

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Jermcutsiron t1_je7gl6k wrote

Had a similar rainbow of eggs, my black copper marans was a liar tho, hers were pink like my black austrolorps.

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wkrick t1_je8q31a wrote

Getting tired of propaganda from "big egg".

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ButtStuff-69 t1_je7wkgb wrote

I feel like the blue and purple eggs should switch spots

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Engreeemi t1_je8dx8e wrote

Sometimes the same breed can lay diffrent colours. I've noticed the chickens I work with have a range from creams to oranges and light browns

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Maynard078 t1_je82xtz wrote

Rainbow eggs. We get them from the farm down the road all the time. They're great.

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hhuerta t1_je75xml wrote

This is how we prepare a rainbow omelette?

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Aggressive-Olive-678 t1_je8llqk wrote

I used to buy eggs from a local farm whose chickens would always lay brown and deep auburn eggs (like the colors on either end of this photo). I swear, those chickens were on a better diet than I was. Whenever I cracked into one of those vibrant shells, the yolk was no exaggeration blood orange. Like some of the yolks were even so deep they were more red than orange. I miss those eggs, the best I have ever had.

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Daohaus t1_je8p9y7 wrote

This is an awesome photo, it's there a high res version?

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BaBaFiCo t1_je8wq2i wrote

I've not seen the green/brown coloured ones from the left-hand side before, but the rest are just typical eggs in the supermarket. Are they not different colours worldwide?

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Hattix t1_je907bt wrote

It's mostly based on diet, not breed.

That said, there is a tendency for some breeds to produce wild-type white eggs, but most commercially kept hens produce brown eggs today. You can make the white ones look blue by controlling the diet the hens have access to, so if you lower the fresh vegetable and insect component (so lower carotenoids) you get blue-ish eggs. And sick hens, but hey, they don't care.

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supplenupple t1_je9amuy wrote

You can’t get olive, chocolate and blue from dietary changes in one chicken

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Hattix t1_je9cg0w wrote

Nobody's talking about just one chicken ;)

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RC3_Skywalker t1_je98j0j wrote

I wonder what the red egg would do in resident evil

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hairybogwoppit t1_je9v5mq wrote

Be interesting to make a giant picture with them...of a chicken?

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Triials t1_je9zkns wrote

Can I make purple omelettes with red and blue eggs? Asking for a friend.

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Sammygirl2780 t1_je9117p wrote

Don't forget the black eggs that are laid by a purely black chicken that is native to South America I think it is.

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isnt-there-more t1_je98hq6 wrote

They don't lay black eggs, they're usually just the normal boring white. My sister got a few of them and I was disappointed when I found out that the eggs look normal lol (They're called Cemani and are originally from Indonesia btw:))

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Sammygirl2780 t1_je9jnut wrote

Thank you. I couldn't remember where they were from. Probably a weird question but do they all taste the same or can you tell the colour of the shell from the taste? I've only ever had brown so I'm curious. Sorry it's a dumb question 😅

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isnt-there-more t1_je9mwf0 wrote

Nah I don't think it's dumb. There is no taste difference it's really just the colour of the shell

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Sammygirl2780 t1_je9n8uh wrote

Oh cool. That's really interesting, the different colours. They look so pretty altogether like that. Would not have thought blue eggs could come from chickens. Very cool.

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slughugzzz t1_je8f7cz wrote

I'd lime to see proof of this.

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lmolari t1_je9gg8i wrote

Pretty sure the stuff they eat is also important for the color. Chickens that only eat peas create very good eggs and the eggs are green.

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Soliae t1_je9isul wrote

This is absolutely not true.

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lmolari t1_je9kd4o wrote

But it is. I buy them almost every week, because most normal eggs taste foul or even like old fish to me. And they are normal Chickens, just fed with peas.

Maybe they are a special breed. They don't look very special, though. I made the connection because all they eat is green. So it seems logical.

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schoolsuck0 t1_je83fiz wrote

Did this pic destroy racism or am I confused

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SeaLeggs t1_je97isn wrote

Americans just realising all eggs aren’t supposed to be white

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intothedoor t1_je7egkv wrote

These eggs must be woke… is that the reason of the most recent ‘egg shortage’?

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Manpooper t1_je7f9h1 wrote

Yeah, they're in a rainbow. totally woke /s

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intothedoor t1_je7v6ku wrote

Lol that’s what I am saying - ‘anything’ rainbow just has to be woke right?

Also I assume I am getting downvotes above because I did not use the /s that you so intelligently did not forget. Sarcasm can be very hard over text!

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Manpooper t1_je7z3xq wrote

That's what I assumed when reading yours lol. Banning songs because they include the word 'rainbow' smh...

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[deleted] t1_je7upm4 wrote

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intothedoor t1_je7vkuc wrote

Hahaha - I assume you are not reading any sarcasm in my text. Thank you for calling me a dumbass regardless of your understanding. I promise you, I mean you no harm.

And if you don’t get the rainbow = woke absolutely silly comparison that American conservative politicians are using, I suggest you check it out. There was a Dolly Parton song that was just banned because it had ‘rainbow’ in the song. Can you believe that? I am still rather shocked by that one.

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