Color eggs Layers Best Laying hens Broiler Chickens
The number of eggs a chicken produces can
vary
based on factors such as age, season, and diet
You can eat any chicken, Some take way too long to mature and just aren’t meaty. Look at our Broiler chickens.
Ameraucana
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Egg Color: Blue eggs some Green eggs |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes |
Ancona
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Egg Color: Large White |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes
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Appenzeller Hen
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Egg Color: Medium White |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes
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Ancona
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Egg Color: White |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes |
Austra White
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Egg Color: Cream White to Light Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes |
Australorp
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Egg Color: Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes
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Barnevelder
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Egg Color: Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes
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Bearded d’Uccle
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Egg Color: Cream |
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Winter Egg layers: No
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Basque
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Egg Color: Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: No, needs Warm climates
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Braekel chicken
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Egg Color: White |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes
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Bresse
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Egg Color: White |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes |
Buckeye
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Egg Color: Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes |
California Gray
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Egg Color: white |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes |
Chantecler
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Egg Color: Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes
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Cream Legbar
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Egg Color: light blue or light green eggs |
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Winter Egg layers: No not especially cold-hardy
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Croad Langshan
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Egg Color: Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes best laying is in winter. Heat hurts them. |
Delawares
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Egg Color: Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes |
Dominique
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Egg Color: Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes |
Easter egger
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Egg Color: blue to green to olive to aqua and sometimes even pinkish. |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes Best for: cold-hardy, different color of eggs |
Egyptian Fayoumi
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Egg Color: Off-white or tinted |
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Winter Egg layers: No not especially cold-hardy |
Faverolles
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Egg Color: Light brown to cream |
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Winter Egg layers: Best for: cold hardy, Good Winter layer, handles cold weather with ease. Not very heat or drought tolerant. |
Gingernut Rarganger
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Egg Color: Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes
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Golden Laced Wyandotte
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Egg Color: light brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes |
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Golden Comet
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Gold Legbar
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Egg Color: Light blue or Green, White |
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Winter Egg layers: No not especially cold-hardy |
Hamburg
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Egg Color: White |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes Best for: Flighty, roosts in trees; winter hardy, good at avoiding predators |
iSA Brown
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Egg Color: Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes |
Jaerhon
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Egg Color: White to Off white |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes
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Jersey Giants
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Egg Color: Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: No, Cold tolerance: Poor |
Langshan
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Egg Color: Dark Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes |
Lavender Orpington
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Egg Color: Light Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes, cold-hardy |
Leghorn
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Egg Color: White |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes, |
Light Brahma
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Egg Color: Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes, cold-hardy |
Marans
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Egg Color: Chocolate to Russet Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes, cold-hardy |
Minorca
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Egg Color: White |
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Winter Egg layers: No not especially cold-hardy |
Marsh Daisy
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Egg Color: Cream to Light Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes, cold-hardy |
New Hampshire Red
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Yearly Egg Production: 150 to 220 eggs |
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Egg Color: CChocolate to Russet Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: No not Winter Egg layers: |
Olive Egger
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Egg Color: Olive green to mossy or khaki green hue |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes, cold-hardy |
Buff Orpington
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Egg Color: Light Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes,cold-hardy |
Penedesenca
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Egg Color: Chocolate |
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Winter Egg layers: No not cold-hardy
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Plymouth Rock
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Egg Color: Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes, cold-hardy
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Redcap
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Egg Color: White |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes, cold-hardy |
Red Sex Link
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Egg Color: Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes, cold-hardy
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Rhode Island Red
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Egg Color: Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes, cold-hardy |
SILVER SPANGLED HAMBURG
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Egg Color: White |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes |
Sex-Link
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Egg Color: Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes, cold-hardy |
Serama
True Bantam the smallest chicken in the world
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Swedish Black Hen
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Egg Color: White |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes, cold-hardy |
Spanish
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Egg Color: Chalk White |
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Winter Egg layers: No not cold-hardy
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Sussex
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Egg Color: Cream to Light Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes, cold-hardy |
SPECKLEDY HYBRID
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Egg Color: Chestnut Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: No not especially cold-hardy
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Turken (Naked Neck)
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Egg Color: Light Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes, cold-hardy |
Welsummer|
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Egg Color: Deep brown eggs that are often speckled |
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Winter Egg layers: No, cold-hardy Yes. Best for: Welsummer during the winter months stops laying until the days begin to lengthen. Welsummer chicken breed is very hardy and can do well in both heat and cold weather. |
Whiting True Blue
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Egg Color: Powder Blue or “army” green eggs |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes, cold-hardy Best for: Whiting True Blue really interesting about there eggs is that they are blue all the way through |
WHITE STAR HYBRID
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Egg Color: White |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes, not especially cold-hardy
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Wyandotte|
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Egg Color:Brown |
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Winter Egg layers: Yes |