Best Cream Colored Egg Layer?

[ErinG]

I am planning for the spring - I can't wait for babies!! I would love a beautiful cream colored egg. It sounds like it all depends on the individual chicken, but which breeds are known to lay cream colored eggs? I am looking for a docile, relatively easy to find breed. I want a rainbow of eggs!

 

[NellaBean]

Salmon Favorelle lay a "tinted egg" aka a nice cream colored egg. I crossed a white leghorn and jersey giant (so white layer x brown layer) and ended up with some great cream colored eggs from the girls.

 

[Illia]

Golden/Red Sexlinks are a VERY common, easy to find, and often sweet variety that lay a LOT of cream/tinted eggs.

Otherwise, some more rare breeds (but worth the search) are such like Jersey Giants, Faverolles, Brahmas, etc. They're all very docile and good egg layers too.

 

[Kansaseq]

My red sex-links lay brown. Maybe it depends on the strain?

 

[egg proof]

I have 2 EE's. One lays green eggs and the other lays a very light tan egg, almost white.

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

I have two young ladies born right here at my place.


Their father is a green egged, hatchery EE. Their mother is a cream colored egg laying Barred Rock.


Both of these gals are pretty much solid black hens, though one has a bit of a green tint to her black feathers, and the other has a silvery tint to her black feathers.


They both are pretty good layers of nice, cream colored eggs. At one year old, their eggs are around 2 ounces each ("large" by USDA standards).


They lay probably around 4 eggs a week. I'm not sure because they live in a group of 13 hens, many of whom are cream colored egg layers.


BTW, these two girls a half sister who shares the same father, but whose mother is a buff orpington -- making this young lady half EE/half buff oprington. This little girl is mostly gold, but with beautiful darker tan highlights. She lays a medium sized egg (about 1 7/8 oz), which is a green egg that sometimes has very small brown spots on them. She lays about 3 times a week.

 

[gritsar]

I have turkens, speckled sussex and salmon faverolles. All lay tinted eggs. This is making it a chore to figure out who my new layers in the juvenile coop are.

 

[ErinG]

Thanks! I think I am going to get a Speckled Sussex, some EEs, and a Jersey Giant. We have a brahma that hasn't laid yet, so maybe she will give me creamy eggs!

 

[NellaBean]

My Jersey Giant hen lays a nice relatively dark brown egg........not chocolate like my chocolate layers, but darker than all my other brown eggers.

My red sex-links gave me light brown eggs.