Blue or speckled, tiny or large, bird eggs fit nature's design. Subscribe. Log In. Minnesota News You Can Use. ... Hold a chicken egg between your palms and push hard against the long ends of the egg.

The Araucana chicken from Chile and the Dongxiang and Lushi chickens from China (none of which are particularly common in North America) are known to lay pale-blue eggs. This is rare for a chicken ...

Unscrambling the genetics of the chicken's 'blue' egg Date: August 20, 2013 Source: University of Nottingham Summary: Researchers have unscrambled the genetic mutation that gives the distinctive ...

A chicken that lays brown, white or blue eggs will always lay eggs of that color no matter what they eat. Development of the egg While it may sometimes seem odd that chickens lay eggs, it’s ...

If you haven't lived around chickens you may be surprised to learn that the color palette for eggs extends far beyond the supermarket white and brown. One of the prettier shades is a pastel blue---a ...

There are a few breeds of chicken that are known for their tendency to pop out the occasional blue egg — Araucanas in Chile and Dongxiang and Lushi chickens in China.

Araucana chicken eggs have become an increasingly common sight at the farmers’ market over the past few years, but even so, the pale blue shells never cease to delight shoppers more accustomed ...