Breeding high quality chickens that lay stunning, colorful eggs!

The Secret to Colorful Eggs is Having a Diverse Flock of Chickens In order to have a rainbow egg basket, you will need several breeds that lay a large range of color. Diversity is key.

We’ve rounded up a list of chicken breeds that lay every color in the egg rainbow!

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How do you get a basket full of beautiful colored eggs? By carefully selecting breeds that lay a range of colors. Learn more here.

It’s inevitable, really. The longer you have chickens, the more of them you’ll end up with. It all starts innocently enough. This past spring I went a little overboard when I decided to treat myself to some fun breeds to add more color to the flock and expand the number of colors in my egg rainbow. My flock is now up to forty-ish, and the rainbow eggs are rolling in! Here are three of my favorite new chicken varieties just in case you feel the need to indulge your crazy chicken lady self…

Dennita 1787 Virginia Farm on Instagram: “Do you ever wonder which chickens lay those pretty #rainboweggs? We are adding hues of gray, mauve, and purple blooms next year. I’ll…”

There are so many gorgeous colored egg laying breeds out there that it can be hard to choose! How do you decide when you have a coop that only fits so many chickens? After years of buying all the pretty colored egg layers, let me help you get a gorgeous rainbow egg laying flock from the fewest hens:

Breeding chickens for egg color is so much fun and so totally addictive. This basket is over 8 years in the making.