Chicken Fact or Fiction?????

[hoodat]

It's so hard to find spray paint masks that fit a chickens face that it's hardly worth it.

 

[Ariel301]

Nope. Many chicken breeds lay eggs that are not white, but the mass egg farms keep primarily breeds like White Leghorns, that lay only white eggs. I didn't know for the longest time that I could have birds that lay brown eggs, but I own 7 RIR's, and their eggs are brown. In fact, there is a myth that brown eggs are healthier for you, but the color is only there because the birds have red feathers, an indication, like in humans, of a high natural concentraion of melatonin, which colors the eggs kindof a red, too.
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The color of a bird's feathers has nothing to do with the color of the egg. That is a myth. Brown or red leghorns (or any other color leghorn) lay white eggs too, and my white Plymouth Rock lays brown, just as all Rocks do. The egg farms producing brown eggs use either Plymouth Rocks or a sex-link breed like Gold Comets (breeds where males and females are different colors from birth so they can be easily sorted). The eggs go through a sorting process for color, ones that have weird color variations or too many speckles are weeded out and end up being cracked open for packaging without shells (like the big bags of liquid scrambled egg mix that restaurants buy) You can't tell what color a bird will lay based on its feather color, you need to know its breed. You can tell on some by the color of the ear lobes, but then there are exceptions to that too. "Easter Eggers" can lay any color at all--white, cream, pink, blue, green, olive, brown....they're mutts, so you never know what you will get. A purebred Ameraucana or Araucana will only lay blue, not green or any other color.

Oh, and it's melanin you are thinking of. Not the same as melatonin. Melanin colors hair/skin, melatonin is in your brain to make your night/day sleeping cycle work right.

 

[ShowMe31]

uhhhhhhhhhhh, helllllllllo those green eggs aren't ripe yet. You shouldn't be eating them.

My dad likes to eat hard boiled eggs with his lunch. When he opened his lunch box, pulled out the green egg and said something like oh nuts it's not ripe yet. My dad loves to tell that story about saying that and the look on the others guys face.

 

[lesa]

Too funny! I have EE pullets right now- I am absolutely counting the days until I find my first colored egg!! I can't wait! I have never seen colored eggs for sale (other than backyard types). showme, your Dad could have pretended they were left over dyed eggs from Easter!!
Let's hope that guy was kidding- but my friend said he seemed serious...