Araucana Chicken Eggs Are Beautiful Inside and Out by Rebecca Marx. May 17, 2010. Araucana ... causing many chicks to die before they hatch, Araucanas are very difficult to breed.

In the peach orchard are 300 Araucana hens that lay green eggs. Two Araucana eggs are put in each carton of a dozen brown eggs to add color and interest, she said.

One of the oddest, in appearance and in its questionable timeline, is the Araucana. The long-held theory, according to most historians, is that this breed was probably first bred by the Mapuche people ...