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[Franklinridgefarms]

@Franklinridgefarms No doubt you're right about the blue eggs. I don't sell eggs but I do give them away and swap them. Some people question the blue ones. I wonder if the very dark brown and speckled eggs get the same.

But there are actually cartons of dark-ish brown and blue eggs in my local supermarket, at eight dollars a dozen at that, so somebody's pullin' it off.

I have looked at some of the websites of commercial chicken suppliers and have seen that the do have now commercial strains of dark brown, green and blue egg layers so that will probably become a thing in the grocery stores too, but we haven’t seen them in stores around here yet. I’ve never had any chickens that lay the real dark or speckled eggs so I can’t say but I suspect some would back away from those and some would like them.
We have a BnB and my wife supplies the guests with eggs, we have a few Americauna hens she noticed that a few times guests would use all the eggs except for the greenish ones.
We also found out when selling at our farmers market that quite a few people didn’t want our eggs when we had all white eggs.
We now have mostly brown egglayers and a few white egglayers to add some variety.
That seems to work well for us. My latest chick order was Amber Stars for a bit darker brown egg than the heritage type breeds, Rhode Island Reds for a similar nice shade of brown egg, and Buff Orpingtons, for broodies and a lighter brown sometimes pinkish cast egg, I have switched from White Leghorns to Black Minorcas, they lay nice sized white eggs, not as many as the production strain Leghorns but have a much calmer disposition and aren’t flapping around all over the place when I go in the lot and coop.