Seriously, someone come take these! I raise chickens in the yard, more for enjoying their quirky personalities than for self sufficiency. (Eggs are cheep. Chiken feed isn't.) This is what happens when my family gets sick of eating eggs for a few days..
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I've never seen them look quite so green/yellow/red. but I'd echo what most others are saying, find a reasonable outlet and sell them. local grown, organic, free range(?) probably command a premium in some circles. as I look at the prices it's not as high as I'd thought, but $2-3 a dozen might be possible at the right places. enough to help offset the food costs.
@dirge my chooks are Rhode Island Reds (the brick color eggs) Buff Orrpington( the beige ones) and (Easter Egger (greenish ones) different breeds lay different colored eggs. It's just a thin coating of the oustide shell. Inside the shell is white and eggs are just like any other.
@JamieDeer huh. I'd always heard/read that the colorings are more dependant on the chicken diet than the breed, but I've never been much of a chicken person.
@dirge some people will feed chickens additive diets with carotenoid to get a darker yolk color because in some regions (like the Mediterranean) people believe the more vibrant the yolk, the better the egg but science has proven that more or less, eggs all taste the same. Have some basic Chicken facts: (like humans) hens are born with all the eggs they will ever produce within their ovaries. Most production breeds will only lay consistently for about 3 of their 13 year lifespan. Also like humans, the egg will develop and be laid regardless of being fertilized so you do not need roosters to get eggs.
