Eyuck! Don’t get messy dyeing eggs. Have you been wondering about all those naturally colored eggs that certain breeds of chickens lay? Wonder no more. Lisa Steele sums it up in a nutshell here.
“I’d like to share some chicken breeds you can raise to get different colored chicken eggs — no artificial dyes required! Add these breeds to your flock and in no time, you could be collecting green, blue, cream, pinkish and even chocolate brown eggs. Increasingly, these fairly rare breeds are available from hatcheries such as My Pet Chicken and Meyer Hatchery, others can only be found from breeders.
Blue Eggs
Blue eggs are coveted by many wanting beautiful azure eggs in their baskets. Ameraucanas, Araucanas and Cream Legbars all lay blue eggs.
Green Eggs
For green eggs in your basket, consider raising some Easter Eggers (this mixed breed can lay a rainbow of egg colors on their own including bluish, green, pinkish or cream), Olive Eggers and Favaucanas. Olive Egger chickens are half Marans chickens and half Ameraucana chickens and lay olive green eggs, Favaucanas are half Faverolle and half Ameraucana and lay a pale green egg.
Cream/Pinkish Eggs
A nice change from brown or tan eggs, cream eggs add variety to your basket. Light Sussex, Mottled Java and Faverolles all lay a pinkish-cream egg.
Dark Brown Eggs
Brown eggs are pretty common, but dark chocolate brown eggs lend a pop of rich color to your egg basket. If you are wondering which chickens lay brown eggs, here’s the answer. Welsummers, Penedesencas and Marans chickens all lay dark chocolate brown eggs.
White Eggs
With all the different colored chicken eggs from the chicken breeds listed above, white eggs lend gorgeous contrast and also give you white eggs to dye if you still feel you need to. Leghorns are the most common breed of white egg layers, but why not consider instead Andalusians or Lakenvelders as alternative white egg layers.
We’ve all heard people say they think brown eggs taste better than white eggs. We’ve also seen people look at our brown and blue eggs and ask how they taste. If you are wondering: Do do different egg colors taste different? The short answer is no. All chicken eggs are made the same on the inside. Egg tastes only change because of a hen’s diet and the egg’s freshness.”
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