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  • From: <eureka AT hctc.net>
  • To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Local chicken - 1/4 pound egg
  • Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:15:27 -0600

The breed of the chicken does determine the color of the egg, but it starts out white and is colored along its path out of the bird. What is interesting is you can generally tell what color egg a breed will lay by the color of their ear patch, if you don't know your breeds, or have mixed breed chickens. Our Ameraucanas lay in an assortment of blue green, from robins egg blue to army green, the Polish lay white eggs that are very pointy, and the Brahmas lay brown, the Faverole tan, etc.

--Sage


On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:24:57 -0800 (PST)
bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
No; I didn't know that, either. I suppose the ethos of chickens would therefore be centered upon pre-determination, rather than free will. I'm still curious to what sage said about what causes chicken eggs to color. I assumed it was the breed of the chicken. I guess I was wrong......bobford


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--- On Sat, 11/22/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Local chicken - 1/4 pound egg
To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Saturday, November 22, 2008, 6:35 AM
On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:29 PM, bob ford wrote:

> 'I'll be'. Yours looks like it could
easily be 1/4 ib. also. Your blog pic said that all eggs
start out white and change colors being delivered. How does
that explain "blue" or "brown" eggs. What causes the color?

Egg talk is fun. Did you know that the nucleus of every egg
a hen will ever lay is within her when she emerges from the
shell?


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