AgriLife Extension experts explain how genetics and other factors can affect an egg's color, shape and shading.

Being "egg bound" — meaning she's unable to lay her egg because it's stuck in her oviduct — is a painful and serious condition for a chicken, and it can easily turn fatal. More eggs continue ...

Those that are laid in shades other than white have pigments deposited on them as the eggs travel through the hen’s oviduct. The journey through the chicken’s oviduct takes approximately 26 hours.

Fans of Carrie Underwood‘s chicken flock can breathe a little easier on Thursday morning (March 13): Her “egg bound” hen, who’s been sick for several days now, is doing better. The singer shared an ...