US farm introduces organic blue eggs

Pete and Gerry's Eggs has introduced a new brand of premium pastel blue eggs, termed Platine Bleue, which are laid by cage-free Ameraucana hens.

Platine Bleue eggs have deep yellow yolks and very rich flavour. Pete and Gerry's Eggs said the hens are fed a healthy diet of whole cereal grains, marigold and alfalfa grasses. The feed contain no by-products, hormones or antibiotics.

Blue eggs have been produced in South America by the indigenous Mapuche people since the mid-16th century. The Mapuche bred their Araucana chickens to range free and withstand the harsh environment of Patagonia.

Pete and Gerry's Ameraucana hens are derived from those chickens and now considered a distinct breed. They are handsome birds with slate-blue coloured legs and colourful plumage; and they lay the same distinctive blue eggs.

Pete and Gerry's is a family farm that has been producing eggs for four generations in the heart of New Hampshire's White Mountains. The company produces fresh, organic, cage-free, omega-3 eggs from hens that are Certified Humane.