Araucana chicken eggs have become an increasingly common sight at the farmers’ market over the past few years, but even so, the pale blue shells never cease to delight shoppers more accustomed to ...

Palo's passage of an ordinance allowing backyard chickens brought out the calls, including one from Sharon and Vernon Eden of rural Iowa City. Vernon, 78, has raised chickens for years, but his health ...

With the cost of a dozen eggs nearly double from what it was last summer, some folks may be thinking about raising chickens to harvest their own eggs. An area poultry farmer says it may sound good, ...

Some things we take for granted. Take for instance eggs. In the grocery store we find eggs with white shells and eggs with brown shells. The Araucana chicken lays blue eggs. But why so many colors? It ...

Q: What are the basics of raising chickens? I would like to put a coop in my back yard so that my family has fresh eggs on hand. A: Besides being a lot of fun, keeping chickens means fresh eggs every ...

When Sonny White's wife, Lutitiah, discovered that one of her hens down in Holly Hill had produced lime-green eggs, he vowed he would not eat green eggs. Never fear, Mr. White. The eggs that look like ...

A. Araucana chickens, made famous by Martha Stewart, the household style expert, produce a pigment called oocyanin, a byproduct of bile production. Fanciers of the Araucana breed, which has roots in ...

Mystery of Blue and Green Eggs: We have grown up eating white eggs like any other normal person. Then, after some time, we were introduced to brown eggs or ‘desi eggs’, with the belief that they are ...