Rainbow layers?

[chickencheeper]

what are the most colorful egglaying breeds(preferably with pics of eggs) we want a “rainbow” of eggs

 

[lazy gardener]

Chickens which lay the most colorful eggs?

OR

Most colorful chickens which also lay colorful eggs?

I would go for a mixed flock, and be sure to include some EE for the blues/green/aqua, some leghorn for white, and a mixture of brown egg layers. (brown egg layers can lay anything from cream to pinkish, to brown to terracotta, based on the breed) Since you are in Massachusetts I'd choose pea and rose combed birds. If you intend to raise your own replacement birds, you could even produce a flock of small combed birds which produce cream, brown, blue, green, aqua and olive colored eggs, AND you could breed them to be sex linked for the first generation!!

Check out Henderson's chicken breeds chart.

 

[aart]

Easter Eggers with Welsummer cock for crosses for the 'olives' and more browns.

 

[chickencheeper]

Easter Eggers with Welsummer cock for crosses for the 'olives' and more browns.

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Are those all the Easter Egger-welsummer cross’s eggs?

 

[chickencheeper]

Easter Eggers with Welsummer cock for crosses for the 'olives' and more browns.

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I also have been REALLY wanting welsummers(cause they’re beautiful) but I want colorful eggs!

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Get mediterrean breeds for white eggs, araucanas, ameraucanas, cream Legbars, or Easter Eggers for blue eggs, black copper marans for dark chocolate eggs, olive Eggers for green eggs, Faverolles for pinkish-brown eggs, orpingtons, brahmas, Dominiques, or welsummers for brown eggs.

 

[aart]

Are those all the Easter Egger-welsummer cross’s eggs?

The blue/light greens are all EE's,
the darker green and browns are crosses of Wellie x blue laying EE.
The blue shell gene is not guaranteed to pass down when using EE.
One of those darker brown eggs may be from the one wellie hen I had at that time.

 

[chickencheeper]

The blue/light greens are all EE's,
the darker green and browns are crosses of Wellie x blue laying EE.
The blue shell gene is not guaranteed to pass down when using EE.
One of those darker brown eggs may be from the one wellie hen I had at that time.

Do you have any pictures of the cross?

 

[lilmillefleur]

Marans, ameraucanas, easter eggers, CCL, welsummers, olive eggers, and some tan, cream brown and white layers too!

 

[aart]

Do you have any pictures of the cross?

The all look pretty similar but a bit different, can depend on the EE.
Here's a few: