Arizona Chickens

[LarryPQ]

Mostly right.

The calcuim that creates the egg shells comes in two colors: white or blue. It's not the genes themselves, but how the chicken is creating the calcium (carbonate?) that determines the structure of the molecule and thus the color.

All birds are genetically pre-disposed to lay one or the other.

All other colors come from the "spray painting" process that happens in the chute.

 

[turkeybreeder]

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cool another broody you are lucky
my red star is broody but stay in the nest
all night and in the day she is getting up
could the eggs still work to take to incubate
to my friend that has an incubator

 

[Smiles-N-Sunshine]

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So the blue/green colors would be on the inside of the shell as well as the outside? And quail eggs can't be spray painted into the pinto pattern.... can they?

 

[turkeybreeder]

today is cinco de mayo a holiday that latinos celebrate
is offensive some threads people are writing today
here byc making jokes of the latinos on the food and other things
what there celebrating is the same as in fourth of july
is what they celebrate on may 5th each year

 

[LarryPQ]

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So the blue/green colors would be on the inside of the shell as well as the outside? And quail eggs can't be spray painted into the pinto pattern.... can they?

Nope. You should only see blue or white on the inside of the shell. This is MOST obvious with the dark olive eggers.

 

[LarryPQ]

Maybe, but if I were an ex-patriot living in Sussex, I wouldn't be lighting off no fireworks on the fourth of July

 

[turkeybreeder]

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Maybe, but if I were an ex-patriot living in Sussex, I wouldn't be lighting off no fireworks on the fourth of July

what do you mean ex-patriot living in Sussex ?

 

[LarryPQ]

I am saying trolling is against BYC rules. Keep that in mind.

 

[turkeybreeder]

what they celebrate today is the victory of puebla
with french is what they celebrate on may 5th
me and my brothers and cousins are american's
but we all speak both english and spanish
but we never forget where my family is from
we visit are family each year and visit my grandmother

 

[LarryPQ]

You and everyone else.