Colored egg breeds?

[Quacking ducks]

Hi, so I have 6 light brown layers and 1 that lay’s green eggs but I would like to get a few other colors. Like blue, pink, dark brown etc. What breeds would you recommend that are good layers? Thanks

 

[the_peanut_coop]

Easter Eggers and Ameraucanas are my favorites, laying green/blue eggs.

 

[Yardmom]

Marans are known for their dark chocolate eggs. A few other breeds can lay dark eggs as well. Wellsummer I think maybe another breed. Cream created legbar is another blue egg laying breed. Hatcheries also sell hybrids that are intended to lay blues and greens. I am unaware of any breeds for pink, but sometimes the bloom on individual chickens makes the egg appear pink or plum colored.

 

[Quacking ducks]

Easter Eggers and Ameraucanas are my favorites, laying green/blue eggs.

Marans are known for their dark chocolate eggs. A few other breeds can lay dark eggs as well. Wellsummer I think maybe another breed. Cream created legbar is another blue egg laying breed. Hatcheries also sell hybrids that are intended to lay blues and greens. I am unaware of any breeds for pink, but sometimes the bloom on individual chickens makes the egg appear pink or plum colored.

Thanks, I believe I already have a Ameraucana but all her eggs are a sage green.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Thats not an ameraucana. Wrong egg color and pretty sure that's not a color they come in.

Thanks, I believe I already have a Ameraucana but all her eggs are a sage green. View attachment 3365915View attachment 3365916

 

[FunClucks]

Your green egg laying chicken looks like an easter egger to me. Cute girl!

 

[the_peanut_coop]

Thats not an ameraucana. Wrong egg color and pretty sure that's not a color they come in.

I'd guess It's some sort of Easter Egger or Ameraucana Mix that was sold at a feedstore or a hatchery advertised as an Ameraucana.

 

[Quacking ducks]

Your green egg laying chicken looks like an easter egger to me. Cute girl!

I'd guess It's some sort of Easter Egger or Ameraucana Mix that was sold at a feedstore or a hatchery advertised as an Ameraucana.

I got her from a farm that my sister works at… they hatched her and my I think road island red hen. They are probably both mixes of some kind. The farm has a thousand or two chickens of different breeds.

The green eggs in the picture are Snuggle’s (my americana, or Easter Egger)

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I got her from a farm that my sister works at… they hatched her and my I think road island red hen. They are probably both mixes of some kind. The farm has a thousand or two chickens of different breeds.

The green eggs in the picture are Snuggle’s (my americana, or Easter Egger)View attachment 3366006

The bird pictured isn't a RIR

 

[Iluveggers]

My Welsummer & Marans lay a dark brown egg. The Welsummer is the friendliest but super loud as a breed in general if that is a consideration you would need to know about. I believe Pendenesca lay darker brown also.

Cream Legbar, Ameraucana, Isbar, Easter Egger & Olive Egger would get you a variety of greens and blues. McMurray also had a Whiting Green & Whiting Blue offered that lay green & blue eggs.