Isbar hens lay between 150 and 200 beautiful green eggs in several shades per year on average. Some even have brown speckles. ... Ameraucana chickens come in standard and bantam sizes.

Over on Reed Hill Road, carpenter Kevin Connolly has three chickens, one of them a plumed, black and white Polish hen. Jonathan Stidman on Marshall Street has seven, including an Ameraucana, a ...

Over a year ago he purchased some chicks and now has 47 Leghorn, Rhode Island Red and Ameraucana hens that produce 3 1/2 dozen fresh eggs a month. "I got the Ameraucanas because they lay blue eggs ...

For example, Leghorn chickens lay white eggs, Orpington’s lay brown eggs and Ameraucana chickens lay blue eggs. And the “olive egger” breed lays … wait for it … olive-green eggs.

Hens graze in the area outside of their pen on Thursday, April 19, 2012, ... Penelope, an Ameraucana hen with a penchant for roaming her Clifton Heights neighborhood, ...