No one breed can guarantee a pink egg layer, but olive eggers, blue egg layers, or dark brown egg-laying chickens bred with a ...

Egg colors, Neikirk said, are determined by a hen's genetics. For instance, an "Olive Egger," a chicken that lays olive-green colored eggs, is a cross between a hen and rooster from a brown egg ...

Sadly, olive eggers aren’t producing a lot of eggs: they lay between 150 and 180 eggs per year. But nonetheless, you need one in your flock if you want a variety of green eggs in your collection.

Reuters. Organic farmer Elena Christoforos stands amidst retired farm hens at a farm, where hens are used to fertilise and mow olive groves in a pilot project, which has boosted crop yields and ...

Organic farmers in Cyprus have recruited hundreds of 'retired' hens to fertilise olive groves in a pilot project they say boosts yields, counters disease, and helps manage food waste. Saved from ...

Hundreds of hens, rescued from slaughter after their egg-laying prime, now roam freely among the olive trees at the Akaki Grove, nestled in the Troodos mountains west of Nicosia.

A father and his three daughters whose hen laid an egg three times the normal size say they've never seen ... 12, Elsie, 9, and Olive, 3, told news agency SWNS that it took their hen Gail five ...