Ever wondered what colour your eggs should be?

Below is a chart indicating the breeds of chickens and what the colour of their eggs should be. Of course there will always be variations, genetic, feed etc so please use this only as a guide and not as a qualified reference.

Egg Colour chart

Curtsy of Katie Thear
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Publishers of Poultry and Smallholding Books

White Andalusian Appenzeller Augsburger Brabanter Brakel Bresse Campine Creve Coeur Friesian Hamburgh Houdan Italiener Kraienkoppe Leghorn Minorca Poland Rhienlander Sicilian Buttercup Spanish Sultan Sumatra White Star   Tinted/White Asil Derbyshire Redcap Dorking Frizzle Ixworth La Fleche Lakenvelder Old English Pheasant Fowl Scots Dumpy Scots Grey Shamo Silkie Transylvanian Naked Neck Yokohama   Cream/White Ancona Breda Japanese Bantam Legbar Pekin Bantam Rosecomb Bantam Sebright Bantam

Tinted/Cream Faverolles Fayoumi Ko-Shamo Bantam Nankin-Shamo Bantam Sulmtaler Vorwerk Yamato-Gunkei   Tinted Booted Bantam Dutch Bantam Malay Marsh Daisy Modern Game Nankin Bantam Norfolk Grey Old English Game Orloff Plymouth Rock Rumpless Game Sussex Tuzo Bantam Wybar   Tinted/Brown Australorp Brahma Cochin German Langsham Indian(Cornish) Game Jersey Giant New Hampshire Red North Holland Blue Orpington Rhode Island Red Wyandotte

Brown Barnevelder Black Rock Bovans Nera Croad Lansghan Dorninique Hisex Ranger Hy-Line Brown ISA Brown Lohmann Brown Modern Langshan Rhodebar Welba   Mid to Dark Brown Calder Ranger Hebden Black   Dark Brown, Speckled Maran Speckledy Welsummer   Blue-Green Araucana Cream Legbar Rumpless Araucana

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