Blue Eggs?

[Loner]

Can anyone comment about the Blue Shelled chicken eggs that are on sale in Aldi now. The claim is that they taste better etc,etc.
I don't understand that statement, does an egg taste better because it has a blue shell, and how has the blue shell come about?.
I did buy some today to try , and I will look for any difference between the blue and what we may call normal colored egg shells.

 

[Netherfield]

Blue eggs just come from a certain breed, Possibly from some legbar variety. No different than white or brown shells, there are black birds that lay white eggs and black birds that lay brown eggs.

Ocado are in on the act as well, https://www.ocado.com/webshop/produ...lue-Hen-Eggs/366278011?from=search&param=eggs

 

[Mr Mackay]

Our old gamekeeper friend , who I grew up shooting with , years ago ,came with some black hens and they laid blue eggs. Just as tasty as a brown free range but smaller!
When I asked him what breed were they , he used to say they were Jungle Hens

 

[Lili]

Eggs are eggs. The most important factor in taste is freshness and correct storage,

 

[7610 super q]

This caper probably. Looked into it 6 years ago. Didn't seem to be much profit in the job.......

https://www.clarencecourt.co.uk/

 

[Boysground]

We used to have chicken here. One of the staff used to work on a big battery unit in the area. They experimented with different coloured eggs by putting food colouring in the oyster shell. Apparently it worked well but sales never took off. This would have been in the late sixties.

Bg

 

[Landy Nick]

Blue Ameraucana is a breed of chicken that lays blue eggs.
Sister has a few dozen of these amongst her other chickens.
The eggs are smaller then the usual chicken eggs.

 

[borderterribles]

As I always say to peep who ask for brown eggs over lovely white Leghorn eggs, is I chuck the shell away, what do you do with it?

 

[JP1]

Our old gamekeeper friend , who I grew up shooting with , years ago ,came with some black hens and they laid blue eggs. Just as tasty as a brown free range but smaller!
When I asked him what breed were they , he used to say they were Jungle Hens

He’d be right if they were black Sumatras

 

[Still Farming]

Anything for a few more dollars.
The dark chocolate colour Maran's eggs years ago were a favourite too.

 

[Blaithin]

Ameraucanas, Araucanas and Legbars will do various shades of blue. Cross them with a brown layer and you get an Easter Egger which can do blue, brown or green. Cross them with a Maran and you get Olive Eggers. Isbars also lay green eggs.

Nothing nutritionally different, they just look neat. It's one of the selling points for my eggs when I take them into the city. People are amazed at the different colours. Not to mention using Green Eggs and Ham references when talking to kids in schools.

 

[borderterribles]

Anything for a few more dollars.
The dark chocolate colour Maran's eggs years ago were a favourite too.

Yes. Marans are lovely. If you don't like eggs much!

 

[Still Farming]

Yes. Marans are lovely. If you don't like eggs much!

And try snd hatch some and always Cockrels come out???

 

[Chasingmytail]

Ive got chickens that lay blue eggs - Cheshire Blue. Makes life interesting. I used to sell the eggs but business too small to bother with people loved it I had no problems selling organic pasture eggs. The different coloured shells makes the consumers happy.

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

I used to breed Cuckoo Marans, Cream Legbars and Light Sussex, which made it easy to tell the eggs apart in the incubator.

Now just keep warrens and sell eggs, because people didn't want to pay purebred prices for poults.

 

[Loner]

I have had my blue eggs,my wife boiled them,and put them in an egg cup with the bread & butter soldiers, nice colored shell , but the yolk was small compared to my usual ones. Might just stick to what I normally use,and let my granddaughter paint them blue.

 

[RFR]

All taste the same, look nice in the boxes though.