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.

Easter Eggers are a mix of different breeds. Their eggs may be blue, green, pink, brown, olive or cream. Each hen will give lay just one egg color - they do not each lay a variety.

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.