Rainbow egg layer (Dixie)?? Does anyone know about this breed?

[TheOddOneOut]

I bought some chicks (straight run for $1.99) at Tractor Supply.. and the label read "Rainbow egg layers". I thought to myself these chickens must lay colorful eggs (hence the sign). I asked the lady there at TSC if they laid colorful eggs and she assumed they did, so i went on and got them either way. Next thing you know i googled rainbow egg layers and got nothing but a combination of colorful eggs from different breeds (not a specific breed). I kept digging doing more research and i bumped into "Dixie Rainbow egg layers" so now i have these little chicks thinking they were a mixture of Easter Eggers or Ameraucanas , Araucanas, Faverolles, Olive eggers etc. I have never heard of this breed specifically (I'm new to raising chickens) . I don't mind this breed but i wanted to add some egg color to my flock since i already have brown egg layers . Does anybody own or have heard or know about this breed?
and can anyone tell me if this is what i have ?
Do you have any pictures of what they look like as adults??
I know is kind of early to tell (1 week old) but most of you here know way more about chickens than i do. Thank you !!
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Cute!

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Update: they just turned 6 months and are already starting to lay eggs they are the brownish ones with spots/freckles and the white one, they are next to my EE/Ameraucana Rooster.. this is what my "Rainbow egg layers" look like now at 6months View attachment 1283564 View attachment 1283561

They look like Calico Princess hens.

 

[Ra_]

Old thread but I also bought Dixie Rainbow from Tractor Supply in 2017. I bought pullets and they were all over 10 pounds at maturity, which takes a while.
Big Mama weighs 14 pounds.
I bred them with Barred Rock and am getting great results.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

@Ra_ no chance you kept notes on their development? Its my first time raising chickens, I have 8 of these at 11 weeks and a few days, and am worried they may be underweight compared to the norm. Cross Link to Thread Post here Looking for anyone with experience they are willing to share about this "breed". Sadly, selection being what it was this year, I had no choice really in the birds I used to start my flock. Also very interested in your experience with heat and this variety of chicken, since several posters in older threads had mentioned the birds fare poorly. North Central FL, your climate is likely pretty close to mine, here in the NC of the FL Panhandle - or at least within a few degrees most days.

 

[chkncrazy]

They look like Calico Princess hens.

I just looked up Calico princess ends in my Dixie rainbow pullets I just bought look exactly like them, on the website though it says females are 4 to 5 lb but mine definitely get up to 10 pounds maybe it's some kind of similar breeding stock!

 

[Ra_]

@Ra_ very interested in your experience with heat and this variety of chicken

I'm raising birds known for being cold hearty and this is illustrated by them only needing 3-5 days in the brooder.
To compensate for this, I have 2 wading ponds and a bowl for them.
I situate them in shady spots under palm clusters or dense patches of Cherry Laurel.
They can shed a lot of heat through their legs and once they try it, they are hooked.
I am going to develop a large tray with a center feeder to entice the young birds into the water.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I have a "large" pond of about 100 sq ft, from 6" to 2' deep - larger today (we got 1 3/4" of rainfall yesterday, on the back of around 1/2" both prior days), plus the shade of the hen house and attached tarp (another 200+ sq ft), and 3/4 acre of free range which has been underbrushed, but the mature canopy was allowed to remain to provide shade or dappled shade all day.

So what you are saying is that if my birds are underweight, its likely not heat related.

That helps.

Do you have any idea how much your birds weighed around 11 weeks in age? I'm thinking I may have to increase the amount they free feed, at the risk of allowing the CornishX with them to eat themselves to death before I get chance to bring at least *some* of the Cornish genes into the first generation of mixes.