[babe]

But not for chickens in general I think you will agree.

The names Sharkwatch by the way.

nope..totally disagree.

like all animals, each breed is different and have their own traits and varying colours and sizes in eggs.

just because its not something you are used too, doesnt mean its odd.

[beadwindow]

babe,

I fully concur, your beasts are perfectly normal and no doubt amazing to you.

Even with blue eggs.

[peggyprice]

Oxford English Dictionary - Normal - usual, typical

I would argue that as most chickens do not lay blue eggs that blue chicken eggs are therefore not 'normal'.

Babe - time to break the news to Poppy and Tulip - they are abnormal.

Is it not that these blue eggs are abnormal that makes them interesting?

Perhaps we should be more precise in our use of language.  There is, I would suggest, a difference between 'abnormal' with its negative inference of deviation (cf. OED) and 'unusual' which is defined by the same OED as 'exceptional, remarkable'.

Babe's birds, and their eggs, are indeed unusual, exceptional and remarkable, and Sharkwatch, if you do ever keep your own chickens you will find, whatever breed they are or whatever colour eggs they lay, that for you every one of them is equally exceptional and remarkable.

As, no doubt, Beadwindow's brassicas are for him.

Shall we move on?

[Kate and her Ducks]

The columbine is a hybrid that lays blue or green pastel coloured eggs, in various shades apparently! I'm waiting for the pink version myself  

Do you Think :roll: if we feed our chooks Beetroot we might get Pink eggies :shock:        

Following a similar conversation with my Mum, I tried feeding beetroot to my ducks. They seemed quite happy eating it but after a week there was not even a tint of pink. Ah well.