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 ...

The sky may not be falling at the Heinrich hen house, but Henny Penny sure has caused egg-citement. Not once, but twice, this Araucana hen has laid a five-inch-long double egg - one egg inside another ...

My mother keeps chickens — a mixed flock of tawny Buff Orpingtons, black-and-white-feathered Barred Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, and some rather histrionic long-necked Araucana hens from South America.

BEAR MEADOW APIARY, (413) 628-3970, Ashfield. Rick and Nancy Intres, owners. Sold at farmstands and Berkshire Organics. Fenced, naturally fed, local feed mix. Flock: 38 hens, two roosters, a mixture ...

Fresh, healthy eggs. Natural fertilizer and pest control. A chance to teach your kids the value of growing their own food. These are just some of the reasons backyard chickens have moved from a ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Hoping to be one with the food world, raising chickens in the yard was a natural progression of things after the restaurant life. So a few years after we sold our restaurant, and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Exencephaly and hydranencephaly were diagnosed in two 6-week-old araucana chickens (Gallus domesticus) and one adult silkie bantam (Gallus ...

The bird, owned by Syed Noor, a farmer in the Davanagere district of Karnataka, typically produced white eggs.

A farmer in India was taken by surprise when one of his hens laid a blue-colored egg, a highly unusual occurrence that has since attracted widespread ...