If you’re ready to begin breeding your own stunningly colored egg laying hens, I’m thrilled to help guide you through all the beginning steps and support you along the way! This article is a collection of all my best tips, tricks, freebies and downloads intended to help beginner breeders turn a profit in their very first breeding season. Here is how to breed colored egg laying chickens:
How to Breed Colored Egg Layers
My website is FULL of handy articles, hidden tips, tucked-away freebies and secret breeding recipes. There is so much advice I thought it might be helpful to catalogue it all here for the easiest scroll-and-click reading experience:
Where to Begin? Start with Learning Egg Shell Color Genetics
Breeders absolutely must have a grasp of basic chicken egg shell color inheritance. The Basic Chicken Egg Color Genetics article is the best place to begin learning.
Next Step: Learning How Shell Colors and Tint Overlays Make Different Colored Egg Laying Hens
Knowing how Easter Egger egg shell colors are made is a great way to begin learning how to get brighter blues, vibrant greens, and richer olive tones later!
Learning How to Deliberately Breed for Specific Egg Colors
Breeding the most incredible egg colors is so much easier when you understand how genes interact and what combination produces the incredible colors. I promise I have made this as fun as possible with easy-to-understand graphics and no complex biology terms! Here is what you can learn from Egg Shell Interior Colors and How to Breed for Every Egg Color.
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Breeding for Blue and Green Laying Hens
Do you LOVE Easter Eggers who lay beautifully colored eggs? I do, too, and they are one of the easiest hybrids to create! The best part is you only need one rooster to produce both blue and green eggs from your flock. You can learn how to breed guaranteed blue & green layers and how to breed the brightest colored egg layers.
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You can receive a FREE PDF breeding guide (normally $12 in my shop) and an email mini-course by signing up using the form below:
Breeding for Olive Colored Eggs
If you adore olive green eggs and want to add all the shades to your egg basket, I can help! Learn how to breed olive eggers and the secrets to getting those dark speckled eggs!
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Breeding Speckled Egg Layers
If you are smitten by speckles, you’ll enjoy learning how to Breed Speckled Olive Eggs and Using Welsummers to Breed Speckled Olive Eggs
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If you want to know how to breed in the most speckling and achieve dark olive eggs at the same time, this is the secret breeding recipe you need!
Breeding Heavy Bloom Colored Egg Layers
If you want heavy blooms that make olive eggs look gray and brown eggs look pink or purple, learn how to start breeding Heavy Bloom Egg Layers
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Breeding Heavy Bloom Pink Egg Layers
If you absolutely must have those pretty pink shells in your egg basket, read our article on How to Get Pink Eggs
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Chicken Egg Color Breeding Charts & Visual Guides
Sometimes a picture is the fastest way to explain genetics! Here is a link to our Genetics Page with visual breeding charts showing what colored egg laying offspring different rooster breeds produce and our Egg Color Punnet Squares page.
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Where to Find Colored Egg Laying Chicks
Every breeding project must begin with breeding stock that comes from somewhere, right? In this article I have a handy list of US Hatcheries that offer colored egg laying chicks with direct links to each breed’s ordering page. There are some incredible options!
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Managing Breeding Pens & Flock Fertility
Learn how to Track Fertility and Manage Breeding Pens for your breeding flock.
Support for Selling Hatching Eggs
Breeders often find they must be photographers, advertisers, marketing managers, and product packagers all in one just to get their hatching eggs sold! Let me help make all of this easier for you:
Photographing and Packaging Hatching Eggs
How to Find Cute Egg Selling Supplies
Selling Hatching Eggs from 10 Hens + 1 Roo
How to Make Custom Chick Carriers (with your farm name!)
Stage Social Media Pictures FAST
Stamped Egg Cartons on a Budget
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Custom Egg Carton Stamps
Hop over to my Website Shop or Etsy shop to view dozens of captivating egg carton stamps that can be customized with your farm name! Newsletter subscribers will find coupon codes for Etsy at the bottom of every newsletter!
This Page is Updated Regularly!
As I continue to publish articles on breeding various colored egg layers, this page will be updated so bookmark it for fast, easy navigation to the best info and freebies on my website!
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