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How you tell chickens apart by color?

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16y ago

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That question really makes no sense. If you have a black chicken and a white chicken, I think it's very easy to tell them apart. If you mean telling chickens apart that are the SAME color then 1. mark them with something such as a sharpie or paint or 2. wait until they grow older. Most likely they will appear and act much differently from each other because chickens have different personalities like we do, depending on how they are cared for as chicks.

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tHIS CAN OFTEN BE DETERMINED BY THE COLOR OF THE LEGS AND FEATHERS. YELLOW LEGS/BROWN FEATHERS=BROWN EGGS;GREY LEGS/GOLD FEATHERS=LIGHT BLUE EGGS;YELLOW LEGS/WHITE FEATHERS=WHITE EGGS. I'M SURE THERE IS A MORE SCIENTIFIC ANSWER FOR YOU, BUT THIS IS THE GENERAL RULE I USE.

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The egg color laid by the hen is determined by the genetics of that hen. All chicken eggs were brown at one time and that is the original color. Eventually some hens produced a lighter shade of brown eggs and with time and breeding selection, white eggs were produced. In the early 1950's, white eggs became the symbol for the determination of "purity". The consumers demanded more and it became the favored colour. Brown eggs are favored by the restaurant industry as the shell is easier to spot when accidentally mixed into a recipe. Blue/green eggs are a novelty as a sign of the move to organics since no large commercial egg producers sell them.

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13y ago

Yes , they do.

Several breeds lay colored eggs. Americana, Araucana and Easter egger hens all can lay eggs in various shades of blue and green. If you click on my name at the bottom, you will see colored eggs ( including antique gold) on my profile as I raise Araucana hens and have various cross breeds.

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By the color of their earlobes. I have a black hen with white earlobes. She lays off white eggs. Red hens lay various shades of brown to reddish eggs. White hens white---unless her lobes are red, then the egg will be off white.

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Generally yes. If a chicken has a dark earlobe she will lay dark eggs (the normal brownish colour) and if a chicken has light coloured earlobes they are most likely to lay white eggs. However there is an exception when it comes to the Araucana species who lays blue eggs unless crossed with another chicken breed who will then lay green eggs.

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if the ear is red they will lay brown eggs, if the ear is white they will lay white eggs (exception's: Ancona, Ameracaunas, and Silkies)

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