As you may or may not know, chickens can lay a variety of egg colors. From white to chocolate and everything in between.

Ameraucana chickens are a breed of chicken that are known for their egg-laying ability and their colorful appearance. They are considered to be good layers, with the potential to lay around 200 ...

Cold climate: Silkies. Silkies aren’t great at laying eggs (you can expect fewer than 100 a year), but they’re pretty chickens, with gorgeous feathers and a wide range of colorings.

Live Fast, Die Young Up until the last century, chickens were raised outdoors for the dual purpose of eggs and meat. Around the mid-20th Century, breeders began to focus on developing specialized ...

Araucana Chickens Araucana chickens are known for laying blue as well as green eggs. Araucana was first seen in the year 1914 by the Spanish ornithologist Salvador Castell.

But when you’re selecting the best-laying breeders for your flock, you should know precisely which hen is laying which egg. Yes, those hens with the “wide, moist vents” are the ones in ...

On the flip side, breeds like Leghorns, Rhode Island Reds, and Polish chickens may present more challenges than rewards for beginners. Luckily, you can make things SO much easier for yourself by ...

To do this, they took a commercial egg-laying chicken known as Hy-Line Brown, which is optimized to lay eggs. (These chickens can lay more than 200 eggs a year.) ...

In 2010, he founded the Sustainable Poultry Network, with the goal of restoring heritage breeds and training farmers to humanely and sustainably breed their own flocks. “We are on a mission to put the ...