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minus-square@MrJameGumblink37•8 months agoI looked this up on Google and several sites say that you can tell what color eggs a hen will lay by looking at their earlobes… I didn’t even know chickens had earlobes lol
minus-squarecomador link46•edit-28 months agoIt’s not consistently true, Leghorns have yellow colored ears and lay white eggs, but yes, MOST eggs can be differentiated by their “lobes”. Source: Used to raise chickens growing up on a farm.
I looked this up on Google and several sites say that you can tell what color eggs a hen will lay by looking at their earlobes… I didn’t even know chickens had earlobes lol
It’s not consistently true, Leghorns have yellow colored ears and lay white eggs, but yes, MOST eggs can be differentiated by their “lobes”.
Source: Used to raise chickens growing up on a farm.
The fuck? I didn’t know this either