Color Easter Eggs? That’s for the Birds

When it comes to coloring eggs for Easter, Kathy and Ken Paulson say it’s a task literally for the birds. Chickens, that is.

While families all over the country are messing up their kitchens dyeing eggs for the holiday, the Paulson’s hens lay colored eggs, the couple said. Dark green ones, and gray-green ones, blue ones--even ovoids of turquoise hue.

Folks think they’re being put on, that the Paulsons put some kind of dye in with the chicken feed.

The couple raise chickens on a small ranch about 50 miles east of San Francisco. Kathy Paulson said she finally learned that the hens were Araucanas, a species that originated in Chile. People in the chicken business call them “natural Easter eggs.”