What's up, chicken butt?

Did you know you shouldn't eat brown eggs, because they come out of a chicken's butt?

Yes, there are people that think that. And apparently, when you ask them where white eggs come from, they will tell you, "White eggs come from the store."

I only wish I could find someone that believes this, because I want to know where they think blue and green and pink eggs come from. Our Ameraucana chicks will lay blue, green and pink eggs once they're old enough! For that matter, our Ancona ducks lay eggs that are green and purple as well as white. Where to the purple ones come from, do they think?

I've also heard of people thinking brown eggs shouldn't be eaten because they are infected with bacteria that turn the shells brown. I hate to break it to them but, the entire time we were in China we didn't see a single white egg, only brown eggs. Billions of Chinese eat brown eggs and they're still alive and healthy.

All that is just a segueway to saying, I'm really liking our Ameraucana chicks. Some of them are growing as fast as the red cornish cross broiler chicks and they're much better foragers. With the heat, we're not getting any eggs from our Rhode Island Red hens we got as chicks last spring. Maybe once the South American-origin Ameraucanas mature the heat won't bother them as much...