Eggactly! Three Edible kinds of Eggs?

The chickens and ducks are laying like crazy!  The peahen, not to be outdone is laying, too.  I wondered...are peacock eggs edible? Why not? They really are big chickens with much prettier feathers.  So, I hard boiled one.  Here comes the classic line, "Tastes like chicken." The peacock egg did taste quite a bit like a chicken egg.  Although, next time I want to fry it.  (Think I'll do it, and then serve it to my hungry teenager, and not tell him what kind of egg he just ate. Hmmmm. Wonder what his reaction will be?)

From top to bottom:
Peacock egg
Duck egg
Chicken egg, chicken egg, chicken egg
Chinese Silkie chicken egg

Peacock eggs are a  shade of creamy pink with undertones of brown. When you pick up a peacock egg it is quite heavy as eggs go.  
The ducks eggs have a thicker shell than the chicken eggs, and many people find them delicious.  They are not my favorite (but, my dog Max is crazy for them.) There are benefits to eating duck eggs. I'll share more about this in a later blog.
We have these two small black chickens we call Ying and Yang. They are Chinese Silkie chickens. Can't tell them apart, but they both lay these tiny white eggs. Then there is Sam. She, of course, she lays the green eggs.  Blue eggs come from a chicken that we haven't named yet. What is a good name for a chicken that lays blue eggs? We haven't named the small red feathered chicken yet either. This chicken lays off- white, very oval shaped eggs, and likes to lay them with the ducks' eggs.  But now that two of the ducks are sitting on a clutch of eggs, she isn't welcome near their nest anymore, and has had to  go back to laying them with the other chickens eggs.
There is nothing like warm farm fresh eggs right from underneath a chicken (or a duck or peacock)  straight to the frying pan served on toasted sour dough English muffins.  Love living on The Derby Farm!