Chicken breeds for a colourful egg basket
It’s not just chicken feathers that come in all sorts of wonderful colours. Chicken eggs can come in lots of beautiful pastel shades from the purest white to chocolate brown and even black.
In some supermarkets, you’ll see blue or dark brown eating eggs but they’re often a little more expensive. The good news for chicken keepers, is a variety of breeds can provide you with a colourful egg basket and some breeds will produce plenty of coloured eggs.
Here are some of the chicken breeds we sell for a colourful egg basket. For our full range of breeds search our poultry catalogue.
Blue, Green and Olive
Dark Brown
White
Cream to Light Brown
There are lots of breeds that lay cream to pinkish light brown eggs. Here are just a few:
