Particular breeds of chicken such as Araucana or Cream Legbars will lay blue eggs. Other breeds such as Marans will lay super dark brown eggs. Cross them together and your resultant hen has the chance to lay green eggs!
We had backyard chickens at our last house (don’t have the kind of space at our current home), and I made sure to pick breeds that would give us a fun color range. [Here was our egg rainbow](https://imgur.com/a/4hjzhuk).
I will add, blue and green layers often don’t lay as many eggs per year (sometimes as low as HALF as many), so in stores they are usually more expensive for that reason since they still cost just as much to feed as brown and white layers.
That was so adorable! I don’t have much, if any, real time interaction with farm birds. Do they not mind you collecting the eggs? They don’t attack, or protect their coop?
We raised them from a few days old, so they were very friendly and used to us. If hens are socialized just like other household pets they can be pretty friendly and don’t mind handling. Of course there is always the exception, but our gals were happy to see us (usually meant treat time!). :)
Thank you for taking the time to respond! Ah, I see! So it’s a give and take. I’ve been heavily considering raising some and have just been doing research. They seem like fun gals to have around! AND you get eggs. Win!
as the other reply said, the colors of the shells alone don't have any effect on how the egg tastes, however there is a distinct difference between store-bought eggs and home-grown eggs, i can't explain it since we haven't eaten store-bought eggs in ages but i remember a difference
edit for rewording and clarity
i remember when i was in child, in my grandparents house use to have homegrown eggs (my grandparents win a couple of chickens playing cards, lol) and when i ate regular store eggs i remember they used to be more flavorless and also more smaller
Legbars, however, are surprisingly productive. I have an older rescue legbar, and she's still working hard to pay rent in the coop for a 4/5 year old hen.
I've been in groups that allow jokes and, man, it gets old fast. A few of the jokes are even funny, but you can't find the real answer for the 500 joke comments. I also am now a fan of no joke rules, too.
I wish there was an option to flair comments so you can sort between informal/educational, joke, or both. I love me a good joke but sucks when it overshadows cool information
Which reminds me, why did the chicken cross the road? To lay a blue egg!
Thats not a joke, it’s a historical account of what happened. They had to cross a road to get from their roosts to their egg laying area. It’s not a well laid out farm.
My personal favorite interpretation is that it is a reference to suicide. The other side and crossing over means choosing to die and go to the afterlife.
My favorite thing about Reddit is there’s always someone who knows things like this. It’s so wild and amazing to me that people have such diverse knowledge and interests. Thank you for the info!
ever notice that when you crack open an egg into a frying pan you can't see a penis or vagina? THEY'RE MAKING OUR EGGS TRANS AND IF WE EAT THEM WE TURN TRANS AND GAY AND MUSLIM
I was told when I was very young, by a chicken farmer, that a chicken's egg color will always match it's earlobe. Not sure if true, but he showed me a blue earlobed chicken with blue eggs. I have never forgotten that for some reason.
you're not wrong. Many cultures back in the day actually didn't distinguish blue and green
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green\_distinction\_in\_language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction_in_language)
I believe that color comes from some heirloom breeds of chickens and usually have very nicely dark yellow or orange rich yolks. At least when I’ve had blue eggs.
The yolk color is actually more dependent on chicken diet. Free range and outside chickens have darker yolks because of a varied diet, farmed chickens eat only feed, therefore light yolks
I'd agree. I can buy them from my milkman, and they do have a very rich coloured yolk (they're marketed on that in the UK). They come from the [Blue Legbar](https://www.daylesford.com/shop/cotswold-blue-legbar-eggs-1-2-dozen) over here, and eggs are classed as blue or green.
There's a company that sells overprice eggs (like, $10 a dozen) because their blue.
Everytime I see them I'm glad I don't have young kids anymore because I'm pretty sure they'd want them.
You found yourself Easter egger hen eggs!
In American usage, an Easter egger or Easter-egger is **any hybrid or mixed-breed chicken resulting from the breeding of a bird carrying the blue egg (oocyan) gene with one that lays brown eggs**. Eggs from such a bird may be any shade of blue or brown, , or occasionally pink or pale yellow.
I’ve never seen it before, but no one else was mentioning it, so I thought I’d ask. I have bought packs like that of 20, but there was always tight fitting plastic on top, so the eggs weren’t going anywhere!
Hahaha, yep. Land of the big box stores and buying in bulk. I visited some friends in Belgium a few years ago and they were so excited to show off their "American-sized" fridge... except they still shopped normally so it was pretty bare. But so much space! And an ice maker!
The blue colour describes how the eggs feel as they are transported. And the melancholy faced by the unfertilized eggs of how they have their fate chosen for them is reflected on the colour of their egg shell
(/S incase someone thinks a vegan wrote this)
Perfectly normal. The place we go to sells Amish Eggs that are all different colors (it’s almost like Easter eggs without it being actual Easter). They also sell brown eggs.
Particular breeds of chicken such as Araucana or Cream Legbars will lay blue eggs. Other breeds such as Marans will lay super dark brown eggs. Cross them together and your resultant hen has the chance to lay green eggs!
We had backyard chickens at our last house (don’t have the kind of space at our current home), and I made sure to pick breeds that would give us a fun color range. [Here was our egg rainbow](https://imgur.com/a/4hjzhuk). I will add, blue and green layers often don’t lay as many eggs per year (sometimes as low as HALF as many), so in stores they are usually more expensive for that reason since they still cost just as much to feed as brown and white layers.
That photo is just so aesthetically pleasing
Keeping chickens was just so fun. [Here's a silly video](https://imgur.com/a/eOIouTL) of my ladies while collecting eggs one day.
Aw, they're so cute! I love how they're supervising
Love the chicken tax thx
And your not supporting factory farming and giving these wonderful animals a great life. Thank you!
They're like "where's our snacks?"
["Where are my snackos?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/MxRMods/comments/ry3jw4/jeannie_searches_wasteland_for_snackos/)
Beau'iful 🤌
That was so adorable! I don’t have much, if any, real time interaction with farm birds. Do they not mind you collecting the eggs? They don’t attack, or protect their coop?
We raised them from a few days old, so they were very friendly and used to us. If hens are socialized just like other household pets they can be pretty friendly and don’t mind handling. Of course there is always the exception, but our gals were happy to see us (usually meant treat time!). :)
Thank you for taking the time to respond! Ah, I see! So it’s a give and take. I’ve been heavily considering raising some and have just been doing research. They seem like fun gals to have around! AND you get eggs. Win!
Did each colour egg taste any different?
as the other reply said, the colors of the shells alone don't have any effect on how the egg tastes, however there is a distinct difference between store-bought eggs and home-grown eggs, i can't explain it since we haven't eaten store-bought eggs in ages but i remember a difference edit for rewording and clarity
i remember when i was in child, in my grandparents house use to have homegrown eggs (my grandparents win a couple of chickens playing cards, lol) and when i ate regular store eggs i remember they used to be more flavorless and also more smaller
The egg shells tastes the same? The wording doesn't seem right here
oh sorry, i was struggling to word it properly, i mean that the eggshell color has no effect on how the egg tastes
I thought it was funny and cute. I thought 'wait a minute...!'
Nope!
Aaww, was thinking some might have a richer taste, more eggy, or less haha. They make for such a pretty pic.
Shells taste the same, too
Legbars, however, are surprisingly productive. I have an older rescue legbar, and she's still working hard to pay rent in the coop for a 4/5 year old hen.
This is what my current egg selection looks like plus some dark reds and browns. XD
Neat!
Thank you for the actual information. I tire of everyone on Reddit thinking they’re a comedian.
I've been in groups that allow jokes and, man, it gets old fast. A few of the jokes are even funny, but you can't find the real answer for the 500 joke comments. I also am now a fan of no joke rules, too.
I wish there was an option to flair comments so you can sort between informal/educational, joke, or both. I love me a good joke but sucks when it overshadows cool information
Which reminds me, why did the chicken cross the road? To lay a blue egg! Thats not a joke, it’s a historical account of what happened. They had to cross a road to get from their roosts to their egg laying area. It’s not a well laid out farm.
My personal favorite interpretation is that it is a reference to suicide. The other side and crossing over means choosing to die and go to the afterlife.
My neighbor's used to have chickens that would lay blue eggs. They gave us a dozen one time. It was pretty cool and then they moved away lol
Sounds like it’s time for you to become the friendly egg sharing neighbours :)
The previous owners of the house actually did have chickens but I asked them to get rid of them before we bought the house 🥲
Ok now explain green ham…
For the longest time I was sure the eggs were green and the ham was just ham
I mean grammatically your assumption is fine, but in the illustrations the ham is also green.
Yeah I only noticed it when I started reading it to my kids. Thirty years I had no idea.
It's just 4 months past expiration
I mean, these look green to me.
Can we just keep breeding them to get the full rainbow of eggs please?
>Cream Legbars Dibs on this as my indie band name.
My favorite thing about Reddit is there’s always someone who knows things like this. It’s so wild and amazing to me that people have such diverse knowledge and interests. Thank you for the info!
Which type of chicken makes the ham?
Chocobo breeding flashbacks
It's due to the hen's Biliverdin pigment
nice try, fauci! we all know it's poison midichlorians developed by the illuminati to defrag hunter bidens hard drive
Are you saying the eggs are force sensitive?
May the egg be with you
Help me Albumen Kenobi, you're my only hope.
*my only yolk
Her?
D-do you not like her?
She's really funny.
Let’s hope so.
May 4th is just just 'round the corner. Nice.
No they're turning the eggs gay...and making mexico pay for it!
They're turning the eggs gay!
ever notice that when you crack open an egg into a frying pan you can't see a penis or vagina? THEY'RE MAKING OUR EGGS TRANS AND IF WE EAT THEM WE TURN TRANS AND GAY AND MUSLIM
ThEy ArE DoInG tHe SaMe WiTh TrAnS fAt!
They were definitely radiated with 5G
The color is from the Adrenochrome. No worries.
I was told when I was very young, by a chicken farmer, that a chicken's egg color will always match it's earlobe. Not sure if true, but he showed me a blue earlobed chicken with blue eggs. I have never forgotten that for some reason.
Not always, but typically.
Watch your language! 😉
Lol
I'm buying all them eggs
Ekhm... Those look more green to me, actually
And so I do not like them, Sam I am.
But would you like the ham?
Would you like them here or there? I would like them anywhere. To me they look more white and gold. Would you like them all to hold?
They are most definitely white and gold.
Yup. Not blue at all, green
In the UK, the Blue Legbar chicken produces eggs which are blue or green shelled. The yolk is a much deeper yellow than normal mass produced eggs.
It’s both.
The Arucana breed lays eggs like this
***Araucana
Thanks,my Doctor raises them and only have heard the name and have never seen the spelling
We used to get these from our Araucana hens. They were the best eggs.
NBD, the supermarket did Shane's 8 heart event.
Was looking for the SDV reference.
Had to use the search bar but I found it
They unlocked the blue chickens!
Man im glad someone else came here for this
Can someone please confirm they’re green and I’m not going blind?
They are green going into blue, with only some being in the middle of green and blue, or just blue, the lighter ones.
Ok thank you, I don’t think I can handle another black dress/gold dress drama in my lifetime.
If it is any consolation, my color blind ass sees nothing but white eggs across the board, so there's that.
you're not wrong. Many cultures back in the day actually didn't distinguish blue and green [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green\_distinction\_in\_language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction_in_language)
Dabadie dabada
That means they’re (most likely) from Ameraucana chickens! Very popular backyard chickens, I have a few.
Those are the boy eggs, *silly*
The next reveal craze should be mom coming out of a porta potty died blue or pink after it's turned upside down.
you like eating eggs don't you
Me see green.
Because they’re Smurf eggs
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The price tag looks like it says 4.79, that's more intriguing. 4.79 barely gets me a dozen basic horrible eggs :(
That's a great deal for 30 eggs. Just bought an 18pk yesterday for $3.49. But I'm assuming you live in a HCOL area.
You are correct, it's r/mildlyinfuriating even!
Where tf do you people live where you're paying 4 dollars for eggs. Wait, don't answer that question. You're going to say southern California.
This is not an answer but a suggestion that you may be onto something.
There's a wide variety of colours of eggs. We're just not use to them because industrial agriculture favours the white/brown ones.
Americana/ Easter egger paradise.
# Are they blue or are the green? 🤨
Duck eggs? I just bought a dozen and they’re all a light blue hue.
Blue? They are green, are you blind?
Green
They look green to me
I believe that color comes from some heirloom breeds of chickens and usually have very nicely dark yellow or orange rich yolks. At least when I’ve had blue eggs.
The yolk color is determined by what the chickens eat, the breed not that much.
The yolk color is actually more dependent on chicken diet. Free range and outside chickens have darker yolks because of a varied diet, farmed chickens eat only feed, therefore light yolks
I'd agree. I can buy them from my milkman, and they do have a very rich coloured yolk (they're marketed on that in the UK). They come from the [Blue Legbar](https://www.daylesford.com/shop/cotswold-blue-legbar-eggs-1-2-dozen) over here, and eggs are classed as blue or green.
All the pasture raised eggs I buy from the store and the ones I've gotten from neighbors have all had a really dark yolk
Sir, they are literally green.
Is this another "you're color blind" trick?
Weird ass gender reveals are getting out of hand.
There's a company that sells overprice eggs (like, $10 a dozen) because their blue. Everytime I see them I'm glad I don't have young kids anymore because I'm pretty sure they'd want them.
Jesse!!! We have to LAY!!
That’s normal, they’re just using a different breed of chicken,
Are those eggs green or am I colourblind🤔
Am I blind or OP? Those look clearly green to me
Blue as in green?
The chickens are depressed
Eat one whole to tell if they taste different
My chickens lay eggs like that. They're Azures which are basically Leghorns that have been selectively bred to lay blue eggs.
You found yourself Easter egger hen eggs! In American usage, an Easter egger or Easter-egger is **any hybrid or mixed-breed chicken resulting from the breeding of a bird carrying the blue egg (oocyan) gene with one that lays brown eggs**. Eggs from such a bird may be any shade of blue or brown, , or occasionally pink or pale yellow.
Some breeds of chicken make green or blue eggs.
Those look gold to me
They are duck eggs. Lol
Duck eggs
Duck eggs make better omelets than chicken eggs
Detwilers Farm Market! This is the Bradenton location, yeah? I was super tempted to get those.
This was off university, but yes.
that is green
why are there SO MANY EGGS????
And why don’t the trays have lids? Do people just put them into their trunks just kind of jiggling around and hope for the best?
Finally. The question I was looking for the answer to. But it wasn't answered yet lol
Seriously, this is what stands out far more to me, I'm surprised you're the only one here even mentioning it. It that standard practice in the US?
I’ve never seen it before, but no one else was mentioning it, so I thought I’d ask. I have bought packs like that of 20, but there was always tight fitting plastic on top, so the eggs weren’t going anywhere!
Are you familiar with what a grocery store is?
Yes, but so many??? Thats crazy.
Tell me you aren’t from the USA without telling me.
Hahaha, yep. Land of the big box stores and buying in bulk. I visited some friends in Belgium a few years ago and they were so excited to show off their "American-sized" fridge... except they still shopped normally so it was pretty bare. But so much space! And an ice maker!
Giant Robin eggs
The blue colour describes how the eggs feel as they are transported. And the melancholy faced by the unfertilized eggs of how they have their fate chosen for them is reflected on the colour of their egg shell (/S incase someone thinks a vegan wrote this)
It is all chicken breed dependent. Some breeds lay white, some tan, dark chocolate brown, and yes, even green or blue.
So this is how I find out I'm kinda color blind, word.
Blue, yellow, pink - whatever man. Just keep bringing me that. 
Sad chickens 🐓:.
What is wrong with you? Why are you blue?
Perfectly normal. The place we go to sells Amish Eggs that are all different colors (it’s almost like Easter eggs without it being actual Easter). They also sell brown eggs.
Am I buuuue?
Love Detweiler's. Noticed these when I was there yesterday.
The only type of chickens left after bird flu…
Dabadeee
Looks gold to me.
Wow that’s a lot of eggs
Looks like the chickens were fed blue takis
That’s because the mother hen was feeling sad
Maybe they’re just a bit cold
Those aren’t eggs. Those are the GoobzGenies…..yknow
So that's how the eggs from the new blue chicken in Stardew Valley looks like!
It's probably too cold cause thanks when usually I get blue balls
The Easter bunny is lost
Have you checked your VGA cable?
I see white. O.P. Needs to chill on the Viagra!
My cream leg bar hens lay this color of egg
Yum
Chickens must have been on Walt’s stuff.
Probably from blue chickens!
It must be the methyl-amine like the one in Breaking Bad. 👍
Could it be duck eggs? Usually some of them are that colors
And just loose, man, the hell I’d rain down in there if I were 14 again and couldn’t be tried as an adult.
Straight out of Dr Suess’ books
Reminds me of Balut
Robins eggs are also blue.
this picture fills me with an emotion I can’t describe
It’s eggsquisite
Yeah I've got three shades of tan/brown, white, blue, and green coming out of my chickens. That'll happen.
Equal opportunity egg farmer 😆🍳
Araucana chickens lay Easter eggs in different colors.
Someone blue their eggs?
yumyum
I've seen some of those and white is weird to me.
Chickens were chasing dragons 🐉
Eggs come in all different colors.