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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 http://www.blpbooks.co.uk
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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Last updated
Apr 2010.