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Egg colour table for all chicken breeds with images and productivity.

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Egg colour is hugely subjective and often he source of much disagreement among keepers. A friend and I often argue over eggs I would call cream but he reckons are brown.

Which chickens lay which colour eggs?

The colour of the egg is the result of pigments being deposited during or after shell formation inside the oviduct of the chicken.

Egg colour is genetic and can vary between hens of the same breed and even from the same hen over the course of a laying season.

Please bear in mind that this is a general guide and there is a great deal of variation between hens of the same breed.

All egg shells are made from calcium carbonate and are either white or blue with all other colours being produced by various shades of pigments laid down on the surface of the egg as it is being made.

The brown pigment that is laid down on the surface of the egg is called protoporphyrin IX, which is an iron compound similar to the haemoglobin in your blood.

What are the different colours of chickens eggs?

• Green: A cross between a brown egg layer and a blue egg layer will lay a green egg.
• Olive: Olive eggs are a cross between dark brown and blue.
• Brown: The standard store bought mid brown egg laid by red sex links.
• Dark brown: Birds like Marans have been specially selected to have a deep chestnut brown colour.
• White: White is the basic colour of all egg shells and is merely lacking in pigments.
• Blue: The shells of blue eggs are coloured with the pigment oocyanin, which permeated the shell.
• Cream : Cream egg are light brown.
• Tinted or Ivory: Tinted or Ivory eggs have a very thin layer of pigment over the egg shell.
• Pink: The pink colour on eggs shells is caused by the bloom or cuticle which is a natural coating that covers the egg and seals the pores.
• Purple: Purple eggs are similar to pink but have a darker shade of brown under the bloom. Purple eggs are not breed specific and are only produced by a dark egg layer with a heavy bloom.
• Grey or charcoal: Grey eggs have a charcoal colour of various shades.
• Speckled: Speckled eggs are produced by any hen that lays an egg with colour. If the egg rotates too slowly in the oviduct it comes out speckled.

Picture courtesy of Magners farm.

Table of egg size and shell colour by breed of chicken (Hybrids included):

Breed of hen	Egg shell colour	Egg image	Egg size	Productivity
Altsteirer	White / Ivory.		Large.	180 / 200 eggs per year.
Ameraucana	Light blue.		Medium.	150 / 180 eggs per year.
Ancona	White.		Large.	240 / 260 eggs per year.
Andalusian	White.		Large.	220 / 240 eggs per year.
Appenzeller Spitzhauben.	White		Large.	180 / 200 eggs per year.
Arucuana.	Blue / Blue-green.		Large.	150 / 180 eggs per year
Asil / Aseel.	Tinted /Cream / Light brown.		Medium.	40 to 70 eggs per year. Very seasonal layers.
Augsburger.	White.		Large.	150 / 180 eggs per year.
Ayam Cemani.	White.		Small.	70 to 90 eggs per year.
Barnevelder.	Dark Brown.		Large.	Mine laid and average of 186 in their first year.
Black Rock .	Brown.		Large.	260 /260 eggs per year. Colour fades over the season and the years.
Booted Bantam.	White / Tinted.		Small.	100 / 120 eggs per year.
Bovans Hybrids.	Brown.		Large.	260 / 290 eggs per year.
Brabanter.	White.		Large.	140 / 160 eggs per year.
Brahma.	Tinted / Brown.		Large.	140 / 160 eggs per year.
Brakel.	White.		Small.	180 eggs per year.
Breda	Cream / White.		Medium.	160 to 180 eggs per year.
Bresse.	White.		Large.	160/180 eggs per year. Highly seasonal layers.
Burford Brown	Brown.		Large.	160 / 180 eggs per year.
Campine.	White.		Medium.	150 to 170 eggs per year.
Cinnamon Queens.	Brown.		Large.	260 / 280 eggsper year.
Cochin.	Cream / Light brown.		Medium.	160 eggs a year.
Cream Legbar.	Blue-green.		Large.	160 / 180 eggs per year.
Crevecoeur.	White.		Medium.	120 eggs per year.
Croad Lansghan.	Brown / Pink or purple depending on bloom.		Large.	140 to 160 eggs per year.
Derbyshire Redcap.	White.		Large.	200 eggs per year.
Dominique.	Brown.		Large.	220 / 240 eggs per year.
Dorking	White / Tinted.		Medium.	140 /150 eggs per year.
Dutch Bantam	White / cream.		Small.	140 / 160 eggs per year.
Easter eggers.	Green / blue /  Various.		Large.	180 / 200 eggs per year.
Faverolles.	Light brown / pink.		Medium.	220 /240 eggs a year.
Fayoumi.	Cream / Tinted.		Medium.	150 eggs per year.
Friesian	White.		Small.	220 eggs per year.
Frizzle.	White / Tinted.		Small.	120 to 140 eggs per year.
German bush fowl.	Green.		Medium.	160 to 180 eggs per year.
German Langshan.	Brown		Large.	180 eggs per year.
Golden comets.	Brown.		Large.	240+ eggs per year.
Gold tops.	White / cream.		Small.	120 / 140 eggs per year.
Hamburg.	White.		Medium.	140 eggs per year.
Houdan.	White.		Medium.	150 eggs per year.
Hy-Line.	Brown.		Large.	240 / 260 eggs per year.
Indian (Cornish) Game.	Brown / light brown.		Small.	160 / 180 eggs per year.
ISA Brown	Brown.		Large.	240 / 260 eggs per year.
Ixworth.	Cream / Tinted.		Medium.	240 / 260 eggs per year.
Japanese Bantam.	Cream /Tinted.		Small / tiny.	100 to 140 eggs per year.
Jersey Giant.	Brown /Light brown.		Large.	240 / 260 eggs per year.
Ko-Shamo.	Light brown.		Small.	140 / 160 eggs per year.
Kraienkoppe.	Cream / Tinted.		Medium.	200 eggs per year.
Lakenvelder.	White.		Medium.	150 to 170 eggs per year.
Leghorn.	White.		Large.	260 / 280 eggs per year.
La Fleche.	White.		Large.	150 /160 eggs per year.
Lohmann Brown.	Brown.		Large.	260 / 280 eggs per year.
Malay.	Light brown / Cream.		Medium.	120 eggs per year.
Marans.	Very dark brown.		Large.	140 / 160 eggs per year.
Marsh Daisy.	Tinted / Cream.		Small.	220 to 250 eggs per year.
Minorca.	White.		Large.	120 to 160 eggs per year.
Modern Game.	White.		Medium.	50 to 70 eggs per year.
Modern Langshan.	Brown.		Medium.	150 eggs per year.
Nankin.	White / tinted.		Small.	80 to 100 eggs per year.
New Hampshire Red.	Brown / light brown.		Large.	260+ eggs per year.
Norfolk Grey.	Tinted / cream.		Medium.	200 / 220 eggs a year.
North Holland Blue.	Light brown.		Large	150 to 170 eggs a year.
Old English Game.	Tinted / Cream.		Medium.	150 to 170 eggs a year.
Old English Pheasant Fowl.	White.		Large.	200 eggs a year.
Olive eggers.	Olive green. Various shades.		Large.	160 to 180 eggs per year.
Orpington.	Light brown.		Large.	180 to 200 eggs per year.
Pekin.	Light brown.		Small.	100 eggs per year.
Penedesenca	Dark brown.		Medium.	150 eggs a year.
Plymouth Rock.	Light brown / Brown.		Large.	260 to 280 eggs per year.
Poland.	White.		Medium.	200 eggs a year.
Rhode Island Red.	Brown.		Large.	220 / 240 eggs per year.
Rhodebar.	Tinted / cream.		Large.	200 eggs per year.
Rosecomb.	White / tinted.		Small.	100 to 120 eggs a year.
Rumpless Araucana.	Blue.		Medium.	160 to 180 eggs a year.
Rumpless Game.	Cream / Tinted.		Medium.	160 to 180 eggs per year.
Russian Orloff.	Light brown.		Medium.	100 to 120 eggs per year.
Scots Dumpy.	Cream / Tinted.		Large.	180 eggs per year.
Scots Grey.	Cream.		Large.	140 / 160 eggs per year.
Sebright.	White.		Small.	50 to 70 eggs a year.
Serama	White / Light brown.		Tiny	50 to 70 eggs a year.
Shamo.	Brown. Light brown.		Medium.	80 Eggs per year.
Sicilian Buttercup.	White.		Small.	180 eggs per year.
Silkie.	Tinted / cream.		Small.	80 / 120 eggs per year.
Spanish. White faced black.	White.		Large	180 eggs per year.
Speckledy.	Brown.		Large.	180 / 200 eggs per year.
Sulmtaler.	Cream / Light brown.		Medium	120 / 140 eggs per year.
Sultan.	White.		Small.	50 / 70 eggs per year.
Sumatra.	White.		Medium.	100 / 120 eggs per year.
Sussex.	White / cream.		Large.	220 /240 eggs per year.
Transylvanian Naked Neck.	Cream / Light brown.		Medium.	100 /120 eggs per year.
Vorwerk.	White.		Large.	200 / 220 eggs per year.
Welbar.	Brown.		Large.	180 / 200 eggs per year.
Welsummer.	Dark Brown.		Large	140 / 160 eggs per year.
White Star.	White.		Large.	260 / 280 eggs per year.
Wyandotte.	Cream / brown.		Large.	180 / 200 eggs per year.
Wybar.	Tinted.		Large.	180 / 200 eggs per year.
Yokohama	White / Tinted.		Medium.	80 / 120 eggs per year.