Who needs to Dye Easter eggs??

[critter crazy]

What do you need to dye easter eggs for, when you have chickens that Lay these??

[BC_MoM]

Ohh, neat!!!

[Roxyluvsme13]

They're pretty .

[Freedom]

Who does the olive colored one? Top right?

[critter crazy]

Who does the olive colored one? Top right?

That would be My araucana hen. Sally

[Kfamr]

Wow, these are all from your chickens?

I never knew they "came" in so many colors! Is there something (feed, tempature, breed, etc?) that determines the color? Do they taste any different than "regular" white-shelled eggs?

[Freedom]

That is really interesting! I never saw eggs that color, thanks so much for posting! And nope, with all those you won't need to do any coloring, he he. I learn so much from everyone on this site, it is so great! Thanks again!

[cyber-sibes]

Those are beautiful! Do you supply them to the Easter Bunny for distribution?

When we lived in Illinois, a woman at church used to bring in her Bantam chickens eggs - they were blue & green, and very small. I didn't know chicken eggs came in such a wide variety.

[BCollie_Kelly]

Wow, how cool!

[critter crazy]

Wow, these are all from your chickens?

I never knew they "came" in so many colors! Is there something (feed, tempature, breed, etc?) that determines the color? Do they taste any different than "regular" white-shelled eggs?

The breed of chcken determines the color of eggs.
For Example:
Hamburgs, Leghorns, Anconas, Minorcas-Lay white eggs
Rocks, Wyandottes, Orphingtons, New Hamshire and Rhode Island Reds-Lay Brown eggs
Araucanas-Lay blue-green colored eggs
Cuckoo Maran-Lay Dark Chocolate colored Eggs

There are actually more Brown eggs laying chickens, then white egg laying chickens!
The eggs do not taste different, than any other color. But Farm fresh eggs taste and look different than store bought eggs. Store bought eggs, are weeks, sometimes months old when you buy them, that is why the Yolks are Very yellow. Farm fresh eggs, the Yolks are very Orange. Farm fresh eggs taste much better as well. I went to my In-Laws for breakfast Last week, they cooked eggs(Store Bought), and too me, they had no taste at all.JMO tho.

[Taz_Zoee]

Yep! We were raised on fresh eggs too. And now store bought eggs look so funny to me. I'm not a big egg eater anyway, but I'm use to the fresh ones. My boyfriend had never even seen a brown egg before. WHAT?? They sell those in stores too now. Oh my.........city boy!! LOL

[critter crazy]

Yep! We were raised on fresh eggs too. And now store bought eggs look so funny to me. I'm not a big egg eater anyway, but I'm use to the fresh ones. My boyfriend had never even seen a brown egg before. WHAT?? They sell those in stores too now. Oh my.........city boy!! LOL

I had a guy tell me once that all eggs were brown, but the white ones in the stores were bleached!! Yeah Right!! so needless to say, he got a dozen farm fresh eggs!

[Lilith Cherry]

That is how the eggs look here in China when I buy them in the market! Straight from the farm and really tasty! Did you know here in China they charge more for white eggs than they do brown? They taste the same anyway but that is funny because it is the other way around in the west!

[critter crazy]

That is how the eggs look here in China when I buy them in the market! Straight from the farm and really tasty! Did you know here in China they charge more for white eggs than they do brown? They taste the same anyway but that is funny because it is the other way around in the west!

That is because most Asiatic breeds of Birds, Lay Brown Eggs. Most American/European breeds lay white.

[Logan]

Wow! Those are simply beautiful!!!!