The hen that lays the blue eggs is an Ameraucana, which is a crossbreed. She’s got blue legs to match her egg color. She’s the only one in the flock that has blue legs. Her feather color scheme means nothing, but her legs are a telltale sign. Her eggs don’t taste any different from those of her barred rock and Rhode Island Red sisters, which lay brown ones. She’s not too bright. The rest of the flock ran for cover a few days ago, when two hawks flew overhead. I had to shoo that girl into the bushes.
I only hope my neighbors will take in some of our excess veggies, once we get our Spring/Summer garden producing something. At least I can try to reciprocate for the eggs.
We have a couple of local chicken keepers, and the variety of the egg colors is always fascinating to me. Eggs seem to the uiniversal constant – they taste like eggs no matter the breed.
There is a difference in taste between free range eggs, and ordinary commercial eggs from the grocery store. The free range ones have darker yolks (orange-ish), taste a little richer to me, and supposedly have a higher mineral/vitamin content.
Just a few weeks ago, some guy posted an ad on our local Nextdoor website offering “organic” eggs for sale at $5/dozen. Nobody seemed interested. Heck, when the Ryans don’t drop off some eggs for us, and we’re getting low on them, we can get an 18-pack of plain old white commercial ones from the grocery store for not much more than a dollar. Even if that guy has the best tasting eggs in the world, they’re not worth $5/dozen.
I didn’t know chickens could lay blue eggs! the only blue eggs I’ve seen were laid by robins 🙂
Apparently, Ameraucanas can lay eggs in shades of blue, green, or pink. Any given hen is going to lay eggs of the same color throughout her life. However, egg color will vary from hen to hen. So, I’ve read. I know jack shit about raising them, other than don’t let them get their combs frozen.