Personal note: On our ranch in Tomball, TX we raised chickens and included the Mapuche Indian chicken, the Aracauna. They have blue legs and lay blue eggs. Very tasty eggs. Now the gene that causes this is found:-http://phys.org/news/2013-08-unscrambling-genetics-chicken-blue-egg.html

DAVID: Personal note: On our ranch in Tomball, TX we raised chickens and included the Mapuche Indian chicken, the Aracauna. They have blue legs and lay blue eggs. Very tasty eggs. Now the gene that causes this is found: -http://phys.org/news/2013-08-unscrambling-genetics-chicken-blue-egg.html-Phew, what a relief! I thought they might have been peeping through your windows.

dhw: Phew, what a relief! I thought they might have been peeping through your windows.-They had a big fenced pen behind the barn, so were cageless, eating my feed and bugs. The bugs add the flavor. Chickens are carnivores.