Why did your chicken lay a blue egg?

Answer 1

The Araucana is a certain kind of a chicken, and they lay blue eggs. This happens for no apparent reason. Perhaps it's their diet.

The Cream Crest Leg Bow lays a sort of greeney-bluey egg, and they taste GOOD!!

More answers from DaveScriv:

1) Its genetic, not diet. Details of the mutation not known, but it seems that it can be traced back, before Araucanas got to South America, to Rapa/Easter Island and Pitcairn Island in the Pacific Ocean. Before then? Not known.

2) Spelling error, should be Cream/Crested Legbar. They were created by Michael Pease at the agriculture research department of Cambridge University, 1939 to 1947. For the full story, see pages 255-256 of 'Rare Poultry Breeds' by David Scrivener (me!)

Answer 2

Easy, its because the breed of the chicken naturally lays blue eggs its okay go ahead and eat it.

Sounds like you have an Araucana or Americana hen. Easter Egger chickens are cross breeds that can lay a blue egg also.

Answer 3

Yes, if you have a breed that lays blue eggs, that chicken's eggs will always be blue. You won't get a blue egg from a chicken that normally lays brown eggs though.

The Auracana and the Ameraucana lay blue eggs. They also have really cute cheek-puffs.

Answer 4

No chickens can lay blue eggs, although country chickens can lay brown eggs and others lay white.

The comment above is incorrect, chickens can lay blue eggs. Aruacanas, Ameraucanas and Legbars are all breeds of chickens that lay blue eggs. Depending on the breed, chickens can lay eggs that range from white all the way through to a deep chocolate brown in colour.

The colour of the egg that a chicken lays is not determined by where it lives.

Answer 5

Obviously, the chickens are hatched from Easter eggs that the Easter Bunny hides, and they are bred especially for Easter so that people can be lazy and not dye the eggs on their own.

Just kidding. I don't know