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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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