Image Credit: Dombrese (Own work)- CC BY-SA 4.0/Wiki Commons. As you may or may not know, chickens can lay a variety of egg colors. From white to chocolate and everything in between. Today, we are ...

Chicken farms in the United States are large. Approximately 95 percent of all laying hens are raised on farms with more than 75,000 birds. Most of these hens reside in climate-controlled confinement ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deciding to have your own chicken flock at home can be an exciting and slightly overwhelming process. But before you start, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BETHLEHEM TWP. − Who needs the Easter Bunny when you can raise chickens that lay colored eggs? On their five acres of paradise, ...

Shannin Rettig enjoys raising all types of chickens. She especially loves seeing the different-colored eggs they produce. Along with the standard white and brown, her heritage birds lay dark brown-, ...

Genetics is the simple answer. Some chickens lay white shell eggs and some lay brown shell eggs, similar to the way hair color varies in people. Shell color is not associated with the internal ...

Q Why do some chickens lay white eggs and others lay brown eggs? — Rafael Garcia-Dove, Madison, Wis. A Ron Kean, poultry specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: Genetics is the simple ...