When most people picture chicken eggs, the familiar whites and browns come to mind first But step into the world of backyard chicken keeping and you will quickly discover a far more colorful reality One shade stands out above the rest as the most prized and hardest to find The rarest color of chicken egg is the blue-green egg, most famously laid by the Araucana chicken So what makes this egg color so special, and which other breeds can fill your basket with color? Let’s take a closer look
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