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Adorable! Why Do Chickens Lay Green Eggs

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Green eggs are among the most common since the blue egg gene is dominant to white and many of the crosses also pass on a brown pigment gene. The Isbars the Favaucanas the Ice Cream Bar chickens the Easter Eggers and the Olive Eggers. A Charmed Life Olive Eggers For Green Eggs And Ham Chickens Backyard Olive Egger Chicken Eggs The darker the brown the deeper the green color. Why do chickens lay green eggs . Green eggshells will be blue on the. Some breeds of chicken naturally lay eggs with green shells. Breeding between the chickens has made a big difference so if you take a blue egg laying chicken and a brown egg laying chicken you can get a green colour Dr Kilah said. The Ameraucana breed has a pigment that is able to permeate the whole egg shell and make blue-colored eggs that are colored on both the inside and outside of the shell. Green or olive eggs are a little more complicated. If I remember right the eggs are a little bit smaller than the white or brown eggs are. ...