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The glittery rainbow eggs probably wouldn't show up on a camera photo anyway. Kinda like vampire reflections can't be seen in a mirror.🥴

I had a customer who told me her husband refused to eat green eggs, but when she cracked and cooked them without him seeing the shells, he never knew the difference. But then one day he caught her. and then refused to eat any of my eggs at all. Next time I saw him I asked him "Why don't you...

When I read your post a couple of days ago, I wanted to say "Oh yeah chickens can definitely bite!" I have several hens who bite me every time they are in their nest boxes when I reach in to gather eggs. I peer into their nestboxes to see them waiting there all tense with their hackles raised...

Another good thinker. I too had always heard that cedar shavings are toxic; use pine instead. Then I started reading that pine shavings are also toxic. I said to myself "whatever" and continued to use pine. But your question caused me to want to look that issue up too. I read two articles...

That is so interesting, & I wasn't clear if double-yolk eggs are actually being hatched, or if birds laying double-yolk eggs are simply being selected for. I was compelled to look the issue up. Turns out the double-yolkers are duck eggs. And the females are artificially selected for their...

Good point (pun intended har har) that pointed saddle feathers doesnt Always = male. The flip side of that is: True or false: Rounded hackle and saddle feathers and no sickle feathers = female. That is also Usually true. But in a a few breeds males are hen-feathered meaning that their...

Your argument is that chickens aren't smart, but can be "conditioned" to learn behaviors. You then use children and your dog to show how they also learn by being conditioned. Are you also saying children aren't smart, & neither is your dog? Like chickens, they are simply being "conditioned"?

Chicken Myth/Rumor True or False: It is worth paying more for chicken meat labeled "Hormone-free" or "Grown without hormones", since chicken carrying this label is healthier. False. Added hormones have not been allowed in poultry production since the 1950s. The label is simply marketing ploy.

Agreed!

Soon I think someone should post a "false" chicken myth, since the last several posts have been "truths." I would post a myth myself, but right now I can't think of any.😅

Yes that's the one!

I never thought about the spotted/speckled Welsummer eggs looking like big quail eggs. But you are right the colors are very similiar!

Everything you said is correct, including yes the inside of a green egg is blue. Except that now breeders have managed to create green egg layers that lay true, with their progeny also laying green eggs. (I haven't looked into that to know what color the green egg shells are on the inside. And...

The olive green speckled eggs are from Welsummers crossed with Easter Eggers carrying genes for blue eggs. (I don't have any true Ameracaunas.)

I agree with above comments that Easter Eggers/other breeds do not lay pink or purple eggs, unless they are laying a brown egg with a heavy bloom. But on that note, technically all egg colors are genetically either blue or white only. (Same as all chicken feather colors are genetically only...

I sold eggs at the local farmers market for several years, & yes there were always some that wanted all brown eggs "because they taste better." On the flip side, there were always some that wanted all blue eggs because "blue eggs have less cholesterol." I started cracking eggs of different...

My roosters wake me up in wee hours of the morn having crowing contests. Sometimes makes me wanna kill em, & I doubt the hens appreciate it either.. Maybe the impending death is referring to the loud-mouthed cock.😁