Has anybody ever injected dye into incubated ameraucana eggs to get \"Easter\" chicks that would lay green and blue eggs when they grew up?
When I was little, I remember being told that the colored chicks (blue, green, purple, yellow, and red) would all grow up and lay that color of an egg. I was very disappointed when they lost their color after a few weeks and even more disappointed when I didn\'t get any blue or green eggs from my two dyed chicks a year later.
Seems to me I could have been spared a little heartache back then if they\'d used Araucana eggs (back then, everything was an Araucana if it layed a blue or green egg).