Chicken Egg Color Chart by Breed

Egg color comes from the breed, so the hens you choose decide what your egg basket looks like. Here is every breed we hatch, grouped by egg color, with about how many eggs each lays a year.

Quick reference

  • Blue: Cream Legbar, BBS Ameraucana
  • Dark chocolate brown: French Black Copper Marans
  • Dark terracotta: Welsummer
  • Brown: Rhode Island Red, Barred Rock, Black Sex Link, Delaware, Wyandottes, Brahmas
  • Light brown: Orpingtons, Black Australorp
  • Cream or tinted: Salmon Faverolles, Ayam Cemani
  • White: White Leghorn, Polish

Blue eggs

Cream Legbar eggs

Cream Legbar
Medium Blue · about 180–200 a year
Hatching eggs · Chicks

BBS Ameraucana eggs

BBS Ameraucana
Medium–Large Blue · about 150–200 a year
Hatching eggs · Chicks

Dark chocolate-brown eggs

French Black Copper Marans eggs

French Black Copper Marans
Large Dark Chocolate · about 150–200 a year
Hatching eggs · Chicks

Dark terracotta eggs, often speckled

Welsummer eggs

Welsummer
Dark terracotta, often speckled · about 160–200 a year
Hatching eggs · Chicks

Brown eggs

Rhode Island Red eggs

Rhode Island Red
Large Brown · about 200–300 a year
Hatching eggs · Chicks

Barred Plymouth Rock eggs

Barred Plymouth Rock
Large Brown · about 200 a year
Hatching eggs · Chicks

Black Sex Link eggs

Black Sex Link
Large Brown · about 250–300 a year
Hatching eggs · Chicks

Delaware eggs

Delaware
Large–Jumbo Brown · about 200 a year
Hatching eggs · Chicks

Golden Laced Wyandotte eggs

Golden Laced Wyandotte
Medium–Large Brown · about 200 a year
Hatching eggs · Chicks

Silver Laced Wyandotte eggs

Silver Laced Wyandotte
Large Brown · about 200–240 a year
Hatching eggs · Chicks

Blue Laced Red Wyandotte eggs

Blue Laced Red Wyandotte
Large Brown · about 200 a year
Hatching eggs · Chicks

Light Brahma eggs

Light Brahma
Medium–Large Brown · about 150–200 a year
Hatching eggs · Chicks

Buff Brahma eggs

Buff Brahma
Medium–Large Brown · about 150–200 a year
Hatching eggs · Chicks

Light brown eggs

Buff Orpington eggs

Buff Orpington
Large Light Brown · about 180–200 a year
Hatching eggs · Chicks

Lavender Orpington eggs

Lavender Orpington
Large Light Brown · about 150–200 a year
Hatching eggs · Chicks

Black Australorp eggs

Black Australorp
Large Light Brown · about 250 a year
Hatching eggs · Chicks

Cream and tinted eggs

Salmon Faverolles eggs

Salmon Faverolles
Medium Cream/Tinted · about 180–200 a year
Hatching eggs · Chicks

Ayam Cemani eggs

Ayam Cemani
Medium Cream · about 80–120 a year
Chicks only (hatching eggs not offered)

White eggs

White Leghorn eggs

White Leghorn
Large White · about 280–320 a year
Hatching eggs · Chicks

Assorted Polish eggs

Assorted Polish
Medium–Large White · about 150–200 a year
Hatching eggs · Chicks

Why egg colors vary

Every egg starts out white. Blue eggs are blue all the way through the shell, while brown eggs get their color as a coating near the end of laying. That is why brown and chocolate eggs can look lighter late in the laying season, or when a hen is older or stressed. Shades vary from hen to hen even within the same breed, so the photos above show typical colors, not exact matches. Egg color has no effect on taste or nutrition.

Build your own rainbow basket

Mix a blue layer, a dark brown layer and a white layer for the most colorful basket, or start with our Colorful Egg Basket chick bundle or Colorful Egg Basket hatching eggs. Shop colored egg layers, all day-old chicks or hatching eggs.