Pop open a carton of grocery store eggs and all 12 of them look identical Gleaming white and nutritious Open a carton of eggs laid by a mixed backyard flock of hens and the eye is greeted with a delightful array of shell colors, sizes, and shapes They are as fascinating as they are delicious
Chickens enjoy a genetic blend of 20,000 to 23,000 genes in over a billion base pairs That’s not far short of humans with 20,000 to 25,000 genes and 28 billion base pairs People come in all sorts of sizes, shapes, hues, and