Chicken egg colour question

[deanoduck]

Hi all im sure this topic has already been discussed somewhere but have been looking and cant find the info im after, so the story is a week or so ago as i was driving along i see a sign saying free range eggs £2.20 per dozen, so me being me not to turn my nose up at a bargain went and got some, i picked up a few blues, a few whites and a few of what i would call normal coloured hen eggs, but before id got home id already decided i was going to stick a couple in my incubator and see what happens, well one of these eggs is developing and i just wondered if there was any way of knowing if there are certain chickens that lay certain coloured eggs or is it just a random thing, sorry if i sound dumb but i know theres a lot of clever people on here that could maybe shed some light on this for me.

 

[HighStreetCoop]

Yes, you can usually tell by the color of the chicken's earlobes what color egg they will lay, but there's really no way to tell what kind of chicken laid a particular brown or white egg. With blue or green, you know it's some kind of Araucana or Ameraucana related bird (most likely an "Easter Egger" mix).

 

[deanoduck]

Ahh thank you for the quick reply,, just trying to get some sort of idea what i could end up with, all adds to the dun of it i guess, thanks again for the info

 

[HighStreetCoop]

Once you have chicks you can post their pics in the What Breed or Gender Am I thread and people will have a blast figuring out what they are.

 

[deanoduck]

Excellent il remember to do that, assuming i manage to hatch the little guy, Also cant wait to see the wifes face as she said she only wants ducks in the garden as she has a fear of chickens