Green Eggs & Ham?

My brilliant friend & former coworker Linda found HenCam, a blog on chicken keeping (well, hen keeping) when she was investigating yesterday's green egg discussion here. Whoa! What a fabulous resource! I'm adding HenCam to XE's list of "blogs I love." And HenCam's post on shell color was fascinating. She also mentions how commercial chicken keepers sometimes give marigold flowers to their hens so that the yolks will be yellower (something like that). Perhaps the particular chicken that laid my chartreuse egg went hog wild on the marigolds! HenCam, or one of HenCam's commenters, mentioned another colorful item besides marigolds that chicken keepers add as a dietary supplement, but I have to go back and look for that.

Meanwhile, I'm enjoying the chickens' art. I'm almost out of eggs, so I'll get some more. One of the stores where I buy eggs (Giant?) sells local Maryland eggs. I'm thinking Whole Foods may have these, too. And of course, there are local (well, West Virginia is considered local hereabouts when it comes to produce) farmers selling their eggs at the weekend markets in Takoma Park and Dupont Circle.

Thanks for this great info, Linda. You've elevated my egg buying to new aesthetic heights!!

And welcome to the XtremeEnglish family pages, HenCam!