blue eggs

[adoptedbyachicken]

Men can't do the same blue/green colour diferentation that women can, that's a known medical fact.

As for the eggs the geneitics of egg colour go on all three layers of the egg so you need to disect one to really know if the egg is blue or not. On the inside after you peel off the inner membrane the egg shell can be white, off white, pink, or blue. On the outside sand the egg with a fine grit sandpaper and look for the same colours and then there is the outer layer which can be brown, or not anything at all if the egg never changed with the sanding.

The colour your eye perceives is due to the strength of each layer, if the layers show through, and even the lighting. Cooking alters some pigment so you have to do this with an egg raw. the genetics for each layer are seperate and yes the rooster controls the middle layer which is very important to egg colour as we see it.

 

[Blisschick]

I believe the thing about men not perceiving blue and green the same way as women. My husband and I have had many an argument over those very colors!

Maybe it's linked to the thing with color blindness? My husband isn't, but sometimes he acts like it. I've also had differences over the colors blue and purple with people. I tend to see blue where they see it as more purple or vice versa.

The one hen that lays the OBVIOUSLY blue egg--he keeps telling me it's not, but my daughter agrees with me. IMO, it's my hen, so the egg IS blue, doggone it!

 

[adoptedbyachicken]

Try reading this and see if any of it fits your hubbys

http://www.agape1.com/color vision.htm

 

[pipermark]

To be a true Americuna or Aracuna (spelling is probably all wrong) I think the APA standards calls for blue eggs (not sure on this one lost my APA standards book so couldn't look it up.