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January 27th, 2007, 10:49 AM
Blue eggs have Lexington owner scratching his head
Chester Sizemore, who raises a few chickens in his Lexington back yard, is amazed, and when he shows the eggs to friends, they're amazed too.
He insists that the stylish little hen produced normal, white eggs when he got her last summer. But last week she decided to, well, put a little color in her life.
It turns out -- as it often does -- that there's a more scientific explanation.
Mickey Hall, an associate professor of animal sciences at Clemson University, viewed photographs of Sizemore's hen yesterday, and concluded that the chicken almost certainly carries some trace of the Araucana chicken breed. Araucanas, sometimes called "Easter Egg chickens," indeed do lay bluish eggs, Hall said.
Maysville's own Herb Farm @ Strodes Run sells Araucana eggs in addition to other farm fresh eggs on their farm. For more information, you can call the farm at 606-742-2000
Source (http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/16558840.htm)
Chester Sizemore, who raises a few chickens in his Lexington back yard, is amazed, and when he shows the eggs to friends, they're amazed too.
He insists that the stylish little hen produced normal, white eggs when he got her last summer. But last week she decided to, well, put a little color in her life.
It turns out -- as it often does -- that there's a more scientific explanation.
Mickey Hall, an associate professor of animal sciences at Clemson University, viewed photographs of Sizemore's hen yesterday, and concluded that the chicken almost certainly carries some trace of the Araucana chicken breed. Araucanas, sometimes called "Easter Egg chickens," indeed do lay bluish eggs, Hall said.
Maysville's own Herb Farm @ Strodes Run sells Araucana eggs in addition to other farm fresh eggs on their farm. For more information, you can call the farm at 606-742-2000
Source (http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/16558840.htm)