Who lays cream colored eggs?

[Sprinkles212]

I've looked at several lists and I still can't figure out what breed lays cream colored eggs. Is that the same as tinted? Would prefer that the breed is also able to do well in heat. Thank you!

 

[speckledhen]

Plenty of breeds lay cream colored/tinted eggs, and some that are considered brown egg layers lay a tinted/cream egg. I have a Buff Brahma, a Buff Orpington, a Silver Phoenix and in bantams, Belgian D'anvers and Cochins that lay cream colored eggs, though the Brahmas and Orps are considered brown egg layers, technically.

Both my Orps and my Brahmas so quite well in the heat, especially the Brahmas. They are quite loose-feathered. They do much better than my Delawares, which surprises most folks, since Dels are white and not as fluffy, but they are more densely muscled, which seems to be the difference, IMO.

Some of my BRs lay a lighter egg, some lay a truly brown egg, so it varies, but they do well in the heat, too.


This is an egg from my Buff Brahma hen-do you mean this color?



This egg is from one of my Buff Orpington hens:

 

[Sprinkles212]

Yes! Perfect! Now I'm on the hunt for some buff Brahma hatching eggs or chicks!

 

[speckledhen]

Her "sister", my Light Brahma, laid eggs slightly more beigey than hers, but not truly brown, either. Most chickens you would consider laying a cream/tinted egg would be called brown egg layers; it's really just a shade of brown, as opposed to bright white of a Leghorn.

My Brahmas have been quite trouble free. They do well in all weather and since I lost my Lt. Brahma recently to cancer and Caroline may not be with us much longer (going on 6 years old is pretty elderly for a hatchery girl), I will probably one day add a few to the flock, when I need more birds. I call them "Salt of the Earth" hens, just good girls. My two came from Ideal and though I lost many of their birds to internal laying/egg yolk peritonitis, these show better overall genetics.

 

[1muttsfan]

Norwegian jaerhons lay an almost white or lightly tinted egg, big ones too

 

[CarolJ]

Swedish Flower Hens lay a cream to pale brown egg. They're beautiful, too - although I'm not sure how they'd do in a hot climate. Guess I'll find out this summer if we reach triple digits again.

 

[Eggcessive]

My salmon faverolles, mille fleur d'uccle, silkies, and buff and dark brahmas lay tinted off-white eggs. One buff orpington and a barred rock lay very pale beige also.

 

[speckledhen]

My Speckled Sussex laid light cream colored eggs and she did quite well in hot weather.

For the most part, your clean legged birds would do better in hot weather than feather legged, however, Brahmas have lightly feathered outer shanks and their feathering is quite loose so they don't seem to be bothered by heat much at all. Again, someone mentioned Brahmas, I see.

 

[Sprinkles212]

Now I NEED some Brahma's! So sorry about losing your light brahma. Caroline sounds sweet, and what a long and happy life she has had!

 

[speckledhen]

Oh, yeah, Caroline is a sweetie. I used to have one of her daughters by the blue Orp in my avatar who looked much like a black Brahma. She died suddenly of what we think was an accident in the coop, but she was a doll and a great broody mama. Caroline has never been broody herself. She was always a very regular layer until the last year or two, when she took longer breaks for her molt than she did when she was younger, but she's lived a good long life for a hatchery hen so she deserves her time off. She's laying three or four eggs per week at the moment, but has lost some weight in the last three weeks for some reason we can't figure.

Here is my Caroline, just to tempt you into Brahmas

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