Chicken eggs come in all sorts of colors aside from the typical brown or white you see in the grocery store. There are 6 bantam (miniature) hens in the farmyard who lay 6 different colored eggs!

To help other keepers out, I took a photo of all the eggs together (above) and one of the three white eggs (below)

Can you spot the differences?

Here are our farmyard ladies, in the same order as the eggs in the first photo

If you want to see more egg colors, here’s a link to a great blog post that has a whole rainbow of colors to show: http://www.fresheggsdaily.com/2012/02/rainbow-of-egg-colors.html 

Personally, my favorite eggs in the bird world come from two of the ratites. Emus have gorgeous deep teal eggs that are about 2.5 pounds each and Cassowaries have slightly bigger eggs that can be lime green!