Meet our 'just for fun' coloured egg breeding teams

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This is one of our most popular breeding teams and it produces the most vibrant and diverse range of colours from the one team of hens. These hens are all unique to us, as we have carefully bred them over many years to achieve the amazing colours they lay. These multi-generational hens lay a wide range of colours and shades and some of our most speckled eggs come from this team. 

Shell colours from our current birds include blue, green, slate, olive, speckled green, speckled brown, pink and a many variations in between including lots of speckles. 

All of the breeders we use are full size (standard) hens.

Pullets are never used in our breeding teams.

This breeding team of mini rainbows are always a favourite. We set about creating this team through the careful selection of breeding pretty little hens, who lay pretty little eggs. 

The egg colours in this range are blue, green, blue/green, light slate, speckles and some pinkish tans, plus the odd creamy shade. 

Each hen is unique in feather colour and appearance, with very sweet and placid natures. 

Our breeding team of birds in this pen have been developed by us oven many years of selective breeding. 

As a result, the hens are intentionally crossed, over many generations and years, where we breed for our desired result.

The aims we had when creating this team were to produce dark olive layers and to have wheaten coloured birds, who are easy to correctly sex early on in the grow out stage.

The pullets will appear much lighter in feathering, than the cockerels.

The rooster we are using over these multi-generational hens is a pure wheaten marans, which means that genetically, the resulting female chicks hatched from this team will  consist of 50%  laying super dark olive eggs and the other 50%  laying dark brown eggs.

Once a pullet starts to lay either colour, she will not change, however, the bloom she places on the egg may change daily.

The reason we are using a wheaten marans rooster in this team is to further improve and darken our olive egg shades and this rooster was hatched from a very heavy bloomed laying hen, which will further enhance the egg shades of the offspring.

There is no specific breed of chickens who lay pure pink eggs, and a simple cross , or crosses, is not possible to guarantee pink laying offspring, so the breeding process is quite complex for the pink layers.

Over the many years we have been breeding, we have been chasing the elusive pink laying team, and right now, we have a decent result.

This team of hens consist of a very diverse and colourful flock, so the resulting chicks will hatch in many different colours. 

Not all of the pullets hatched from this team will continue to lay pink eggs, some may lay shades of tan and light brown - but what we have found is that very often the pullets who lay the tan to brown shades in their first season, progress to laying beautiful bloomy pinks as they mature into hens. This adds an extra layer of complexity to the every elusive true pink layer. The roosters we use in this team are also diverse and multi-generational, which we have hatched from the most beautiful and vibrant pink laying hens we have. A simple pink x pink cross doesn't work, so very occasionally, you will find a layer who's genetics have thrown back to another coloured combo we had used in the past in this line.