Chicken that lays green eggs....

16 years ago

MSN has a video on about a chicken that lays green eggs...

They sent a crew down to Mexico to video this chicken...saying it looks like any normal chicken but lays green eggs...

Now I know ...it is the breed that causes the chicken to lay green eggs...and there is also one that lays pink eggs.

As God as my witness and my grandkids , my son and my husband...I had one of them for breakfast just last week.

My cousin who lives in a small town near here has chickens and one or more of them is of that breed. She gets green eggs all the time.

I have a friend who used to have them and he used to give me the green and pink eggs because I got so excited over them.

I email MSN and told them the eggs are not happening because the chicken is something special.

Too bad they didn't do a little investigation before sending a crew all the way to Mexico to video it....lol

Ya think they will email be back???

Here is a link that might be useful: Green Eggs

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ladonna
16 years ago
When I was young, we use to have chickens, I think they were called bantie, not sure of the spelling, but they layed colored eggs. Let us know if they email ya back.
carol_in_california
16 years ago
My Aunt had an aracuana chicken that laid green eggs and sometimes pink........but the yokes were still yellow.
I do hope they will respond to your e-mail.
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sandy_in_ia
16 years ago
I saw just a bit about that this morning...I wondered if they had ever looked up the fact that there ARE breeds that lay green eggs!

Caryn has chickens....they lay brown eggs, and even tho I know there is no difference...it is hard to eat them! lol

Here is a link that might be useful: McMurray Hatchery of Iowa
lilliepad
16 years ago
I saw that on the news last night Patti and thought the same thing!LOL We use to have some of those chickens too.I guess they needed a good excuse for the reporter to go to Mexico!LOL I can't believe they have never heard of Araucana chickens.
Ladonna,those are Bantam chickens.We called them Banties.My grandmother had those when we were kids and I remember they layed brown and tan eggs but don't remember other colors.They are small chickens I remember the little rooster was a mean little thing.LOL
sue_va
16 years ago
You are right, they are not rare.

Had friends years ago who had these chickens that laid colored eggs. Can't remember what the name was.

Sue
petaloid
16 years ago
Martha Stewart has some of those chickens. I saw them on her show, along with the eggs.

When I was a kid my babysitter had banty hens that laid colored eggs, like ladonna and Carol mentioned.

Let us know if you hear back from MSN.
rosebudms
16 years ago
Why are we surprised that chickens lay eggs of different colors? Just look at all the variety in bird eggs. And chickens are birds, aren't they? LOL
Terri_PacNW
16 years ago
I get eggs from a friend from her chickens. There are always tan, white, brown and green eggs in the cartons..actually I get very few white eggs, because someone else that buys them from her..thinks (like Sandy) that they are different..so he only wants the white eggs.
They aren't....lol
joyfulguy
16 years ago
These chickens were precursors of the Green Revolution!

Inspiring us to clean up the planet!

ole joyful
ntt_hou
16 years ago
So... Is it cheaper to dye the eggs each year or to buy the chickens for Easter???

You knew this question was coming, didn't you?!
Granlan_TX
16 years ago
Patti, we have green eggs in Amarillo because my friend sold me fresh eggs and asked if I have a problem with green eggs. Some of her customers did not want the green ones.
I find that funny as the green eggs cooked and tasted like the brown and white ones. :)

Brenda, the egg lady, knows the breed names of her chickens, but I don't recall the names she told me.
marilyn_c
16 years ago
Aracaunas. I don't know if that's spelled right. Very common chickens around here. I used to have some. I can't believe they thought it was so rare that they went down to Mexico to film it. That's hilarious!! Doesn't take much to amaze some folks, does it? LOL!!!!!!!
Adella Bedella
16 years ago
Is this where green eggs and ham came from?

I've thought about getting a few chickens in a pen in my backyard so my 'city' kids could learn a few things. It'd be interesting to get some that layed something other than white.
dirt_yfingernails
16 years ago
We used to have Aracaunas and other chickens. Some people that bought eggs thought the green ones weren't fresh, that they were moldy or something.

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