If you want a backyard flock that fills the egg basket with color, the Prairie Bluebell Egger belongs at the top of your list This breed is unique to Hoover’s Hatchery, and its hens lay large, bright blue eggs that turn an ordinary carton into something worth showing off As a keeper who has owned several of these birds over the years, I can tell you they are a dependable, eye-catching staple on any farm Once a blue egg shows up in the nest box, it is hard to go back to plain brown
How Eggs Get Their Colors
If you’re deciding on new chickens and what new breeds to add to your flock, egg color is probably one of your top considerations Long gone are the days of plain white eggs
How did colored eggs come about?
Eggs from the very first chickens of the wild started out as tan, or light brown Wild jungle fowl were domesticated around 2000 BC All our domesticated breeds stem from these wild fowl
All eggs start out INSIDE the hen as white Through simple genetic tweaks, eggs now can come in white, tan, dark brown, speckled, blue, green, olive, and every color in