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Go to and hatchery website and select brown egg layers. You can tell from cross bred chickens by the color of the feathers around there ear canal. White=white egg, brown=brown egg. On our farm the best brown egg layers are Rhode Island Reds (production or heritage), Barred Rocks, and Moyers ( a breed by Moyer Hatchery)
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 14y agoBrown colored hens such as Rhode Island Reds lay brown eggs. White hens such as leghorns and white rocks lay white eggs.
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What do chicken lay?
Eggs. Some lay white, brown, pink, or even green. Some have speckles it depends on the type of chicken that lays the egg.
What type of chicken do the males lay eggs?
No rooster can lay eggs.
What food does a chicken eat in able for them to lay white eggs and brown eggs?
food
What chicken lays a brown eggs what chickens lays white?
It depends, some just say they're in love when they lay brown eggs, but its mainly their emotions when they lay the eggs. I hope it helped
Turtles lay what type of eggs?
Turtles lay chicken eggs (just kidding just kidding) turtles lay turtle eggs......
What can you feed a chicken so it will lay an egg with a purple shell?
What you feed Chickens does not determine the color of the egg. The color of the egg is determined by the variety of the chicken. For instance, while a white leghorn chicken will lay white eggs, a Brahma chicken will lay brown eggs and an Americana chicken will lay eggs that range from blue to green! there has been a recent discovery of a chicken variety that lays purple eggs, but not much information is available about them yet.
What stains eggs brown?
Brown eggs are not " stained" brown, they are naturally that colour. Egg shell colours depend on the type and colour of the chicken that laid the egg. White chickens will produce white eggs and brown chickens will lay brown eggs. It's due to the amount of melanin, similar to the difference in human skin colours.
Why are some eggs brown and some are white?
genetics
What colour eggs can a chicken lay?
cream , brown , white and sometimes blue
Why do some chickens lay brown or white eggs?
a regular chicken- all chickens lay brown egges! No, not all chickens lay brown eggs. There are lots of breeds which lay white or creamy-white shelled eggs, and a few which lay blue or olive-green shelled eggs (Araucanas, Ameraucanas & Crested Legbars). Among those which do lay brown eggs, there are variations from breeds which lay light brown eggs (sometimes called 'tinted'), through various shades of mid-brown, to a few breeds which lay very dark brown eggs: Marans, Welsummers & Penedesencas.
Do white chickens lay a brown egg periodacally?
The feather color of a chicken does not affect the color of the eggs she lays. It is the breed of the hen that determines the egg color. A chicken that lays white eggs does not drop a brown egg every now and then either, a white egg layer will always lay white eggs. I have several white Araucana hens who lay Lavender colored eggs and a Black Cochin hen who lays light brown eggs (not black eggs)
Can cornish chicken lay eggs for breeding?
Any breed of chicken can lay eggs for breeding if they are fertilised.
