Difference between revisions of "Egg color"
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However, a green egg layer, such as an Easter Egger or an Aracuna, will have the white ears typical of a white egg layer. | However, a green egg layer, such as an Easter Egger or an Aracuna, will have the white ears typical of a white egg layer. | ||
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[[Image:Easteregghen.jpg|thumb|left|200px|a Easter Egger with white ear lobes, just like a hen that lays white eggs, however this hen lays green eggs.]] | [[Image:Easteregghen.jpg|thumb|left|200px|a Easter Egger with white ear lobes, just like a hen that lays white eggs, however this hen lays green eggs.]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 10:40, 9 February 2015
The egg color that a hen will lay can usually be determined by the color of the ear lobes.
Hens which lay white eggs have unpigmented ear lobes.
Brown-egg-laying hens have pigmented reddish ear lobes.
However, a green egg layer, such as an Easter Egger or an Aracuna, will have the white ears typical of a white egg layer.
