Chickens and egg colors

Chicken breeds to raise for pretty eggs. Want different colors in your basket of fresh eggs? Check out these breeds for egg colors like blue, cream, pink, chocolate brown and speckled!

How do you get a basket full of beautiful colored eggs? By carefully selecting breeds that lay a range of colors. Learn more here.

Take a peek at our images of naturally colored chicken eggs and find out the breeds that lay them:

What are the best chickens for colorful eggs? In this post we will review the top 9 breeds that will give you a multi-colored egg basket. Chickens can lay many different colors of eggs including white, brown, chocolate, speckled, green, blue, pink and a even a purple-ish color. Egg color is determined by the breed of the chicken. And, while there are many different egg colors each breed or individual chicken will only lay one color of egg for their entire life.

The Secret to Colorful Eggs is Having a Diverse Flock of Chickens In order to have a rainbow egg basket, you will need several breeds that lay a large range of color. Diversity is key.

A Guide to Chicken Egg Colors - Why do chickens lay different colored eggs? Learn the simple reason for different colors in the egg basket.

Want to know what chicken laid that blue, green or speckled egg? Here are labeled pictures of chicken egg colors by breed!

Want to add a few blue egg layers to your flock? Here are a few of our favorite chickens that lay blue eggs.