May 11, 2007

Hens from Taiwanese farm produces green eggs

US and European consumers are increasingly going "green" by choosing organic eggs over normal ones but a farmer in Taiwan takes the green campaign a step further, by producing eggs with green eggshells.

Tsai Kui-hui, a farmer from Changhua County, Taiwan, has achieved nation-wide fame raising hens that produce eggs with green eggshells.

The egg producer has spent years studying ways to improve his eggs, which now comes with a mineral green luster.

Tsai imported chickens from South America and France and began cross-breeding them. It takes at least five generations of breeding to achieve the look of the egg, he said.

While the retail price of regular eggs is about EUR 0.60 per 500 grammes, the eggs with green eggshells fetch six times the price.