Green eggs......

Ever wondered where the term green eggs and ham came from? I figured it was from some dodgy off eggs but maybe these special eggs were from the Araucana chicken.

From wiki:

"History: The Araucana originally comes from the Arauca Provence of Northern Chile, from before the time of the Spanish conquest, and are a mix of two breeds – the Collonca (a blue egg laying, rumples, clean –faced chicken) and the Quetros (a pinkish-brown egg layer with tail and ear tufts). Nowdays Araucana come as ‘rumpless’ or ‘rumped’. Rumpless do not have the last spinal vertebrae, an uropygium (parson’s nose) or tail feathers, while the rumped varieties have a normal tail. In America only the rumpless birds are recognised as Araucana, but here in Australia, as in the United Kingdom, both rumped and rumpless are recognised. The large ear tufts of the Quetros survive as a trait of Araucana, but usually they are not nearly as extravagant in size as the original."

We're lucky to have an Araucana of our own. Her name is Falcon and she is my favorite of all the hens. She's got a rock star hairdo and just today she laid her first ever egg. A light shade of green. I'll get some photos later of the egg. She was fairly nervous around us to begin with but now comes p to me inquisitively. I like that she looks like a wild bird, and she acts like one too when she's defending the coop from pigeons and bush turkeys. So here is miss Falcon. Mostly black with red feathers on her chest and some speckled feathers on her head.