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Colored Eggs

  • June 2, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Chicken eggs can be green, violet, and many other colors, but they all start out white and change color while forming inside a hen. Weirdly, you can predict some egg colors by a hen’s earlobes: White earlobes mean white eggs, and red ones mean brown eggs.

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