SC - Re: egg shell colors

[Robert C. Lightfoot]

> Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 23:53:02 -0400
> From: "Alderton, Philippa" <phlip at morganco.net>
> Subject: Re: SC - Last Minute details
> 
> Actually folks, this may surprise you but chicken eggs occur naturally in
> other colors than brown or white, including red, blue, and green that I've
> seen myself it's a genetic oddity. The latter are from a variety of chicken
> bred in South America, but since as I understand it, all chickens in the New
> World originated in the Old World, if you look around, you may find that
> they naturally occurred over there too. I would suspect that references
> would be more easily found in Spanish or Portuguese texts, since that area
> was colonized from there.
> 
> Ras, Margali, Bear, Mordonna, can any of you remember the name of the breed
> which produces the colored eggs?
> 
> Phlip
> 


I believe the breed is called arucana.

Siobhan
celtcat at almatel.net

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