If you’re eager to learn about chickens but want to explore something a little out of the ordinary, we have just the thing for you. In the poultry world, the “blue” gene is quite a remarkable ...

As you plan your chicken flock, you, like many others, might want to get chickens that lay different colored eggs. We’re all used to the white and brown eggs you can buy at the grocery store. But did ...

"Ameraucana chickens possess the pigment, oocyanin (blue coloring). It permeates the shell and results in the egg being both blue on both the inside and outside." Egg colors, Neikirk said, are ...

For example, Leghorn chickens lay white eggs, Orpington’s lay brown eggs and Ameraucana chickens lay blue eggs. And the “olive egger” breed lays … wait for it … olive-green eggs.