What Breeds Lay Colored Eggs?!?!

[Chiko]

Marans, Wellsummers, Araucanas, Ameraucanas, Easter Eggers, And some Hybrids.

 

[farmgirlz]

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My Blue Wheatens lay just as dark of eggs as my Black Coppers. I've culled out the lighter layers.

That is indeed my flock

The Wheaten Marans is on the far right, the light brown one. There's Buff and Blue and Wheaten Ameraucanas in there as well as various colored Polish, Araucanas, Easter Eggers, Black Copper and Blue Wheaten Marans, a hatchery-based Brahma (my new Blue Partridge girl dwarfs my hatchery girls, and she's just 5 months old!), a couple Olive Eggers, and a New Hampshire.

I want you to know that you've inspired me. I ended up selling/eating/giving away my flock this past fall {for various reasons}, and I've decided to start over in the spring. Plus I wanted to make a few changes to my coop and run, and it's much easier when there's not a dozen curious fowl watching you.

I'm looking to have a flock of 25 that consists of 5 different breeds:
White leg horns: White eggs
Some Speckled Sussex & Rhode Island Reds: for brown eggs {and most of our production}
Some Ameracaunas: for different colors {hopefully a wide range}

& some Wheaten Marans: for the "chocolate" eggs {and they're a really pretty bird}

Think they'll all get along?

 

[Illia]

Yes, but remember! You're far more likely to get "Easter Eggers" than real Ameraucanas

Even if your supplier says they are - If they come in many colors or lay many colors of eggs, they're Easter Eggers.

Which is what you want though, but, they aren't Ameraucanas is all.

 

[farmgirlz]

Ya... that's what I want actually. The more color the better! I asked Santa for a chicken book for christmas, but I guess he thought I wasn't good enough this year.

So an easter egger is just basically just an ameracauna mutt right?

 

[Illia]

An Easter Egger is any mutt or non-recognized blue or green egg layer. Can have Ameraucana or Araucana in it, or even be purebred but have a disqualifying feature, or even have little relativity to Ameraucanas and Araucanas. Most hatchery EE's originate from the mutts we got before we made the Ameraucana and Araucana breed, making them hardly related at all today.

 

[farmgirlz]

Well thanks!

They say you learn something new everyday!

 

[colby318]

McMurray hatchery offers a rainbow layers assortment of 25 pullets for people who want different colored eggs. I've ordered 5 each of five breeds to receive the 25 chicks necessary to ship. I've also split orders with friends when I didn't want the extra chicks. You have so many options!

Colby in KY

 

[stephanie1992]

If u want a really dark egg id get pendenscas . they lay extreamly dark eggs.

 

[Phoenixxx]

Don't forget white phoenixes. I got a mint green egg from a white phoenix chick today. Also, when I first brought them home (before I got my EE pullets) the lone golden phoenis gave me ice-blue eggs, same colour as her earlobes. I know 3 of the 7 white phoenix girls lay a white egg with a pink tint; today the one gave me the green one (i know it wasn't the EEs, they gave me an egg each just a couple hours ago) so now i'm just waiting to see what the other 3 will lay Only thing with the white phoenixes is they're tiny. I have them with a few other breeds, including some ginormous BA roos, and everyone is fine together