As you may or may not know, chickens can lay a variety of egg colors. From white to chocolate and everything in between. Today, we are going to discuss brown egg-laying chicken breeds. I’ve learned a ...

Sussex chickens are one of three dual-purpose breeds originating from southeastern England. It is a good maternal breed with hens capable of laying up to 250 brown or tinted eggs every year, and ...

Commercial Layer breed These birds are reared typically for table egg production. The most common breeds here include ISA Brown, Hy-line, Lohmann and Shavers. They are brown shell egg producers.

As you plan your chicken flock, you, like many others, might want to get chickens that lay different colored eggs. We’re all ...

While it grows into a Hy-Line Brown layer chicken, its eggs in turn contain genetic material from the rare breed. When the eggs are fertilized with sperm—frozen or fresh—from a male of the ...

Sometimes, a chicken's ear color gives their egg color away — with white-eared chickens producing white eggs and red-eared ones laying brown eggs. The pigment in brown eggshells is protoporphyrin.