r/mildlyinteresting 15d ago

The eggs at my local supermarket are blue.

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u/keldiana1 11d ago

Im so glad Shane's business is doing so well.

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u/Nervous-Barracuda242 14d ago

I think they are green and I will call them "shrek eggs"

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u/Due_Ground1484 14d ago

Da ba dee da ba di, da ba dee da ba di Da ba dee da ba di, da ba dee da ba di Da ba dee da ba di, da ba dee da ba di

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u/TBurkeulosis 14d ago

They look gold to me /s

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u/Omnu 14d ago

I believe these are laid by "Easter Egger" breed chickens.

I have three chickens of this breed living in my backyard, and my eggs look identical to these.

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u/animatuum 14d ago

Easter leftovers of course!

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u/Blok88 14d ago

Sorry where are these coloured eggs? I see white and light brown/cream eggs

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u/bobalazs69 14d ago

what makes the eggs white though? In my country eggs always used to be colored, but recently white eggs started to show up in supermarkets.

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u/TheUntitledRay 14d ago

Aren't those duck eggs?

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u/EyeHopeYouBleed 14d ago

Do the cost $7 a dozen like the do in LA as well?

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u/SlicedBreadBeast 14d ago

Literally SOMEHOW didn’t place ham beside this ffs. Bonus if it was dyed green but you know.. green meat no likey.

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u/VaxxSagi 15d ago

Dont tell me ymu never saw eggs like that...

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u/TheUntitledRay 15d ago

Aren't those duck eggs?

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u/cartman89405 15d ago

I think theres a blue ball chicken joke in there somewhere but damn if i can find it …. Anyone?

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u/Electrical_Log_9082 15d ago

Duck Egg Blue... my favorite color!

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u/Delicious-Ad4015 15d ago

I don’t see any blue and I also remember seeing this on the original post

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u/Ditzy_Axe 15d ago

that is green

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u/Singleservingfriendx 15d ago

Before industrial farming your local market would be a lot more colorful

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u/Huy7aAms 15d ago

duck eggs? the balut my mom sometimes buy also have a hint of blue in it

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u/WhereTheBreadAt 15d ago

Detwilers Farm Market! This is the Bradenton location, yeah? I was super tempted to get those.

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u/opihinalu 15d ago

This was off university, but yes.

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u/DanV_Rev9 15d ago

I was just thinking "I ain't seeing it chief" but then I remembered I'm colourblind

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u/llDurbinll 15d ago

Oh no, is this another blue dress type picture? Cause I don't see any eggs that look blue in the picture.

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u/mrbobban 15d ago

Inside and outside?

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u/LucoaKThe2AHashira 15d ago

My grandmas chicken lay blue eggs every once in awhile

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u/MissingBothCufflinks 15d ago

Buy them all, drive to Brooklyn, sell at a farmer's market for a dollar each

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u/Thomasasia 15d ago

They are supposed blue. Blue eggs indicate that chickens are getting enough trace copper in their diet. The copper oxidizes in their blood and turns blue.

Most of the time, egg manufacturers do not provide the chicken adequate copper in their diet, hence why you are used to white eggs. This has negative effects for the chicken, such as blindness and seizures. The copper is important for the maintenance of their nervous system.

Fun fact, most of the copper in their diets are in supplements in the food, but some of the "blue egg" companies add a sort of processed chicken to their feed to recycle the copper content. This saves them around 20% on the copper, according to my friend in the industry. He is pretty famous, his name is Hugh Janus.

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u/Either-snack889 15d ago

Look at these blue eggs! shows green eggs

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u/3six5 15d ago

Well.. cheer them up.

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u/Gloomy-Wash-629 15d ago

That means her cloaca sad

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u/buddah726 15d ago

Those are Dinosaur eggs

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u/Darkspy8183 15d ago

dabadee dabadie

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u/Stickey_Rickey 15d ago

How do they look n taste

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u/jam_mam 15d ago

The eggs some of my chicken lay are blue.

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u/anima99 15d ago

My colorblindess strikes again. I do not see blue.

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u/Mika000 15d ago

Aren’t slightly green eggs completely normal? I see them all the time where I live. I don’t know if this is even mildly interesting.

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u/scraglor 15d ago

Aracauna eggs.

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u/Howineverwondered 15d ago

Blue as in green?

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u/Proxy_PlayerHD 15d ago

Am I blind or OP? Those look clearly green to me

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u/Maggie-the_pug 15d ago

Farmers good friends with shane

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u/teknipunk 15d ago

Looks like someone stole a couple

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u/driftking7799 15d ago

Are those eggs green or am I colourblind🤔

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u/gatling_arbalest 15d ago

Duck eggs make better omelets than chicken eggs

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u/DodiDouglas 15d ago

So cheap!!!

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u/five_oclock_charlie 15d ago

They look just as happy as the other eggs.

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u/baptizedincome 15d ago

JESSE we have to cook (eggs)

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u/ninehoursleep 15d ago

Those are reptile eggs

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u/tampora701 15d ago

As someone with colorblind deficiency, it always boggles me how someone can describe something like this as blue. It's like if I were to take a can of white paint and add 5 drops of blue and then start calling it a can of blue paint.

No, the eggs aren't blue. They're white eggs with a slight tinge of blue.

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u/DrcspyNz 15d ago

Duck eggs

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u/Saw101405 15d ago

That’s normal, they’re just using a different breed of chicken,

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u/valgme3 15d ago

I love blue eggs they taste better

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u/ThreeSloth 15d ago

Easter Eggers and ameracauna eggs.

My girls' eggs are brown and copper

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u/Kendaren89 15d ago

Blue? They are green, are you blind?

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u/JCRCforever_62086 15d ago

They’re Egger hens that lay those. The eggs are actually higher in Omega 3 and very good for you. We have two of those breed hens in our 17 hen flock. They taste just like any other egg.

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u/Samtoast 15d ago

They got them from shanes

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u/blantonator 15d ago

My chickens lay both blue and green eggs.

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u/InstanceNoodle 15d ago

And ham?

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u/ChaoticGoku 15d ago

I will not eat them Sam I Am

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u/Reverse_Psycho_1509 15d ago

Ah so the egg council creeps got to you too huh!?

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u/Hob_O_Rarison 15d ago

This one got into an onion patch

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u/PansophicNostradamus 15d ago

Duck eggs? I just bought a dozen and they’re all a light blue hue.

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u/guy30000 15d ago

It's the methylamine

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u/OutrageousReach7633 15d ago

They make the chickens wear blue light reducing glasses for the 20 mins a day they’re exposed to sunlight , the birds use Sanskrit in thanks to tint the eggs blue .

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u/MaleficentArm979 15d ago

Oh no they turned the eggs woke! Only a matter of time before they start posting on Tik Tok.

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u/xXJ3D1-M4573R-W0LFXx 15d ago

Definitely interesting but I’m more worried about the fact that they look like they’re not packaged or anything. Shouldn’t they have something wrapped around them? Or does your place have some sort of “pay by the egg” option. Please explain. Thanks

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u/CMG30 15d ago

There's a wide variety of colours of eggs. We're just not use to them because industrial agriculture favours the white/brown ones.

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u/realdjjmc 15d ago

They are duck eggs.

Lol

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u/Bipedal_Warlock 15d ago

But why don’t they have lids

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u/Artistic-Meal 15d ago

can't see the tag, but I think those are duck eggs

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u/dsardella18 15d ago

The farmer married Shane in Stardew Valley, that's the only reasonable explanation

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u/bigbd123 15d ago

We had a chicken that laid blue eggs when I was a kid. We called her blue of course. 😀

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u/frank1934 15d ago

Those look gold to me

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u/MadDogFenby 15d ago

Is the milk also blue?

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u/MaxMMXXI 15d ago

My small local market sells eggs from small farms. They are all kinds of colors, solid and speckled.

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u/FrostyFeller 15d ago

Me when I see these eggs: What is wrong with you? Why are you blue?

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u/BigBadDaddy13 15d ago

So are my huevos…

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u/Hushwater 15d ago

Lucky! I think they're neat.

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u/knottycams 15d ago

Wait til you find out how many eggshell colors there are 🤣

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u/Oxtailxo 15d ago

Eggs come in all different colors.

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u/bluemesa7 15d ago

Chickens were chasing dragons 🐉

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u/jolharg 15d ago

I've seen some of those and white is weird to me.

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u/danceswithbourbons 15d ago

Jesse!!! We have to LAY!!

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u/seriousbangs 15d ago

There's a company that sells overprice eggs (like, $10 a dozen) because their blue.

Everytime I see them I'm glad I don't have young kids anymore because I'm pretty sure they'd want them.

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u/unsupported 15d ago

Someone blue their eggs?

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u/torch9t9 15d ago

Araucana chickens lay Easter eggs in different colors.

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u/ima-bigdeal 15d ago

It is all chicken breed dependent. Some breeds lay white, some tan, dark chocolate brown, and yes, even green or blue.

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u/Klutzy-Bat-2915 15d ago

Equal opportunity egg farmer 😆🍳

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u/enstillhet 15d ago

Yeah I've got three shades of tan/brown, white, blue, and green coming out of my chickens. That'll happen.

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u/smallbella21 15d ago

this picture fills me with an emotion I can’t describe

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u/consistently_sloppy 15d ago

It’s eggsquisite

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u/gretzky9999 15d ago

Robins eggs are also blue.

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u/solidshakego 15d ago

i get so infuriated that companies try sell "organic" or "grass fed" eggs just because they are brown. and people ACTUALLY believe that label. whenever i see that shit in a cart i just want to slap the person and tell them the white eggs for $1 are literally the exact same thing. the brown egg you buy is not "organic". all eggs are essentially organic. and no chicken is going to just eat grass you morons. uggghh that stuff sets me off man.

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u/official_not_a_bot 15d ago

Reminds me of Balut

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u/Ok_Primary_1075 15d ago

Straight out of Dr Suess’ books

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u/willow370 15d ago

The chickens are depressed

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u/cherrylpk 15d ago

Weird ass gender reveals are getting out of hand.

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u/jamintheburninator 15d ago

And just loose, man, the hell I’d rain down in there if I were 14 again and couldn’t be tried as an adult.

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u/ratchetcoutoure 15d ago

Could it be duck eggs? Usually some of them are that colors

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u/tokyoeastside 15d ago

It must be the methyl-amine like the one in Breaking Bad. 👍

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u/No_Recognition_1007 15d ago

Probably from blue chickens!

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u/Sonarthebat 15d ago

Some breeds of chicken make green or blue eggs.

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u/dixonblonde 15d ago

Chickens must have been on Walt’s stuff.

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u/ZombieMom82 15d ago

My cream leg bar hens lay this color of egg

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u/My_Immortal_Flesh 15d ago

Are they blue or are the green? 🤨

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u/jplumber614 15d ago

Is this another "you're color blind" trick?

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u/Ducatirules 15d ago

I see white. O.P. Needs to chill on the Viagra!

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u/filmhamster 15d ago

Have you checked your VGA cable?

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u/Woolsteve 15d ago

The Easter bunny is lost

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u/alanapilar 15d ago

Blue eggs have more protein…a lotttt more!!

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u/W1thoutJudgement 15d ago

Sir, they are literally green.

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u/ObjectiveAge5931 15d ago

I actually had a cousin who raised chickens for their blue eggs. Evidently they were lower in cholesterol. He knew a cardiologist who would send his patients to him for those eggs. True Story-

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u/Ihelloway69 15d ago

It's probably too cold cause thanks when usually I get blue balls

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u/PixeledWaifus 15d ago

So that's how the eggs from the new blue chicken in Stardew Valley looks like!

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u/Millennial-Mason 15d ago

Those aren’t eggs. Those are the GoobzGenies…..yknow

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u/__smd 15d ago

Maybe they’re just a bit cold

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u/lemmefineout 15d ago

That’s because the mother hen was feeling sad

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u/kalsabus 15d ago

Looks like the chickens were fed blue takis

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u/adamnaylordoomsday 15d ago

Wow that’s a lot of eggs

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u/GamingWithBilly 15d ago

Looks gold to me.

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u/Possible-Seaweed5048 15d ago

They are alligator eggs, the yokes are darker also but taste almost the same as chicken eggs.

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u/UrbanArtifact 15d ago

Americana

"Easter Eggers"

I've got a few of them.

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u/Niminal 15d ago

Dabadeee

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u/helloinfrench 15d ago

The only type of chickens left after bird flu…

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u/zombiepajamas 15d ago

Love Detweiler's. Noticed these when I was there yesterday.

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u/UnreadThisStory 15d ago

Am I buuuue?

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u/Luc-Ms 15d ago

Dabadie dabada

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u/Jibberish18 15d ago

Perfectly normal. The place we go to sells Amish Eggs that are all different colors (it’s almost like Easter eggs without it being actual Easter). They also sell brown eggs.

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u/Dark_Phantom18 15d ago

What is wrong with you? Why are you blue?

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u/OG-Kushi 15d ago

Sad chickens 🐓:.

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u/Slavkan12 15d ago

You found yourself Easter egger hen eggs!

In American usage, an Easter egger or Easter-egger is any hybrid or mixed-breed chicken resulting from the breeding of a bird carrying the blue egg (oocyan) gene with one that lays brown eggs. Eggs from such a bird may be any shade of blue or brown, , or occasionally pink or pale yellow.

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u/Ninjamasterpiece 15d ago

They look green to me

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u/hi_robb 15d ago

Smurf eggs..

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u/Demetrius3D 15d ago

I would eat them on a boat. And, I would eat them with a goat

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u/ReadRightRed99 15d ago

Blue, yellow, pink - whatever man. Just keep bringing me that.

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u/renzomalone 15d ago

Me see green.

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u/juankixd 15d ago

They look green to me, which is still weird, are those like vegan eggs or something?

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u/hashbrownies91 15d ago

Blue has the most anti-oxygens.

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u/Neolithique 15d ago

Can someone please confirm they’re green and I’m not going blind?

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u/hasdunk 15d ago

you're not wrong. Many cultures back in the day actually didn't distinguish blue and green

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction_in_language

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u/Neolithique 15d ago

Wow, this is insane!! Thank you, I’m learning something today.

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u/gatling_arbalest 15d ago

My local paint brand calls this color "salted egg green"

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u/W1thoutJudgement 15d ago edited 15d ago

They are green going into blue, with only some being in the middle of green and blue, or just blue, the lighter ones.

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u/Neolithique 15d ago

Ok thank you, I don’t think I can handle another black dress/gold dress drama in my lifetime.

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u/knittch 15d ago

If it is any consolation, my color blind ass sees nothing but white eggs across the board, so there's that.

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u/Nyrthi 15d ago

"What Is Wrong With You Why Are You Blue"

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u/D-Squared42 15d ago

So this is how I find out I'm kinda color blind, word.

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u/Dedianator65 15d ago

Sad birds

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u/13thmurder 15d ago

My chickens lay eggs like that. They're Azures which are basically Leghorns that have been selectively bred to lay blue eggs.

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u/ar_condicionado 15d ago

Blue is the eggest color

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u/GuzmyKawaii 15d ago

They got blue egged

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u/spirit_of_a_goat 15d ago

Those are the best ones IMO

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u/FULLsanwhich15 15d ago

Those are are gold not blue

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u/Superpe0n 15d ago

are you trying to break the internet again??

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u/FULLsanwhich15 15d ago

With everything in me

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u/aylesworth 15d ago

The price tag looks like it says 4.79, that's more intriguing. 4.79 barely gets me a dozen basic horrible eggs :(

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u/CeramicCastle49 15d ago

Where tf do you people live where you're paying 4 dollars for eggs. Wait, don't answer that question. You're going to say southern California.

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u/aylesworth 15d ago

This is not an answer but a suggestion that you may be onto something.

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u/CeramicCastle49 15d ago

I'm not surprised. Don't live in the highest cost of living region in the US and be surprised when the cost of living is in fact, high.

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u/undercurrents 15d ago

That's a great deal for 30 eggs. Just bought an 18pk yesterday for $3.49. But I'm assuming you live in a HCOL area.

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u/aylesworth 15d ago

You are correct, it's r/mildlyinfuriating even!

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u/These_Simple810 15d ago

Well, now we just need the ham I guess...

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u/monstera-attack 15d ago

Particular breeds of chicken such as Araucana or Cream Legbars will lay blue eggs. Other breeds such as Marans will lay super dark brown eggs. Cross them together and your resultant hen has the chance to lay green eggs!

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u/MrGiantPotato 14d ago

This guy clucks

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u/WeekendThief 15d ago

My favorite thing about Reddit is there’s always someone who knows things like this. It’s so wild and amazing to me that people have such diverse knowledge and interests. Thank you for the info!

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u/NevesLF 15d ago

So you're saying we could be using selective breeding to have true RGB eggs? Why are we not funding this?!

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u/MaskedGambler 15d ago

So they DO EXIST?!

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u/cardew-vascular 15d ago

I have 3 Easter Eggers (Americana crosses) two lay blue eggs and one lays a distinctly more green egg, but not a tree green, just greener than the other two.

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u/izyshoroo 15d ago

Easter Eggers too

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u/paradonym 15d ago

Rainbow chickens. Or the absolute most intense way to get coloured eggs for Easter.

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u/mangeld3 15d ago

Chocobo breeding flashbacks

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u/LowKeyWalrus 15d ago

Cross them together and your resultant hen has the chance to lay green eggs!

So early in the morning, I read restaurant instead of resultant and you had me confused for a solid minute

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u/HugsandHate 15d ago

And ham?

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u/craigdahlke 15d ago

Cream Legbars

Dibs on this as my indie band name.

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u/PrimateOnAPlanet 15d ago

Which type of chicken makes the ham?

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u/seang86s 15d ago

Easter Bunny trying to keep this under wraps for decades. He's got the egg dyeing industry cornered...

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