Ever eat a blue chicken egg?

[jill jackson]

Mine are laying blue/green eggs along with the more common brown.

 

[jill jackson]

Here's the two that lay the blue eggs. Ameraucana is the breed.

 

[Jens Schuetz]

Interesting.

When hard boiling them too long most eggs turn blue on the inside.

 

[Ajack60]

The blue/green are supposed to be lower in cholesterol. A guy I buy mine from told me that tid bit.
It's funny, when I was young, I was traumatized eating fresh eggs. Now, I prefer fresh farm eggs. They taste so much better. I guess the image of a developing chick doesn't bother me like when I was young.

 

[SpyderPhreak]

Yep. My aunt keeps about 25 Chickens at her horse property a few mintues from here (6 of them being "ours"), and some of them lay greenish or bluish eggs. The even funnier ones are the petite eggs a couple of the hens lay that are only about half the size of a normal Chicken egg.

 

[slims_88]

The blue/green are supposed to be lower in cholesterol. A guy I buy mine from told me that tid bit.
It's funny, when I was young, I was traumatized eating fresh eggs. Now, I prefer fresh farm eggs. They taste so much better. I guess the image of a developing chick doesn't bother me like when I was young.

That is not correct. While there is some variance in nutritional content of eggs from different breeds, the differences are so small it really is a non issue.

http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/outreac...es/Cholesterol Content vs Egg Shell Color.pdf

 

[HJK]

Blue chicken egg? How do you know if a chicken is blue? Does it sulk? Sing a Robert Johnson song?
Oh, the eggs are blue!
Gotcha.
Do i eat them? Once in a blue moon.

Don't eat them. Save them for Easter

 

[Krav]

Blue eggs and ham oh Sam I am.😃

 

[Kiah]

Mine are laying blue/green eggs along with the more common brown.

Yup, Ameraucana are known for that. They're typically referred to as "Easter Egg" chickens.

The blue/green are supposed to be lower in cholesterol. A guy I buy mine from told me that tid bit.
It's funny, when I was young, I was traumatized eating fresh eggs. Now, I prefer fresh farm eggs. They taste so much better. I guess the image of a developing chick doesn't bother me like when I was young.

May be misunderstanding, so pardon me if you're aware, but eggs sold for consumption are typically unfertilized unless you're buying from a very small farmer letting a male run around with the hens. Even then, I think they tend to be "candled" to sort 'em out.

Blue chicken egg? How do you know if a chicken is blue? Does it sulk? Sing a Robert Johnson song?
Oh, the eggs are blue!
Gotcha.
Do i eat them? Once in a blue moon.

Don't eat them. Save them for Easter

Ever seen a Silkie? They have bluish black meat, skin, and bones.

 

[gadgetgeek]

We had some weird chickens as a kid. My sister's summer job was raising a flock of meat birds for the family as well as sale to a bunch of older folks who liked free-range chicken. When she'd order her day-olds, she'd sometimes get a deal on mixed laying hens, ones that hadn't been sorted (one year we got a lot of roosters) and various breeds, I guess on occasion someone drops a box, or things get mixed up. She sold eggs all year, so it was a cheap way of adding to the flock. kinda cool varieties sometimes. I mostly remember the roosters as we ended up with a few that were very violent, so they met a short end. All feathers though, looked big until they hit the plucker, they would have struggled to hit 2lbs dressed, where the meat birds would 6-7 easily

 

[jill jackson]

Fertilized eggs aren't any different to eat than the unfertlized ones. Unless they've been incubated. One woman at work stated, she wouldn't eat a fertilized egg because they have blood in them, from being fertilized. Not so any egg can have that, because it comes from a rupture in the hens ovary.

 

[firefighterguy]

Ate em all the time as a kid. If it came out of the chicken we ate it! I can't remember if we had that breed or not. If I remember correctly we used to feed em oyster shell to help make the shells harder and it turned em a funny color.

 

[Daniel Dorn]

Don't Guineas lay blue eggs, too?

We used to have Rhode Island Reds, and they would get pretty big. Where we lived, the hardest thing was keeping the Red-tailed hawks from taking out the young ones.

 

[Codger_64]

Blue, green, tan, brown, yellow, white... the shell color has no effect on nutritional content. However, Americanas are mostly for small home/farm flocks and most often are free ranged (seeds, insects in addition to cracked corn and some mash). So they do have more protein in the yellows. Unlike the pale yellow confinement farmed chickens from egg factories fed only mash pellets. You can compare brown store bought eggs to brown store bought free range egs and see and aste the difference. Kind of like eating a homegrown heritage tomato compared to a commercial one.

By the way, the Americanna is a very gentle breed, good around pets and children. Not prone to fighting or flogging. They jus aren't as prolific layers as some others like Production Reds, and not as good setters as Orpingtons.

 

[stargawker]

I have eaten a few blue chicken eggs. I almost always buy free range eggs and the taste is so much better than the usual white eggs from the supermarket.