#Favaucana chicken

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Johnny Kickflip is laying now, she’s such a cute little thing - her comb sticks out in all directions and she’s got a killer beard!

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it takes a truly evil person to paywall blue favaucana chicken mods

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beautiful crossbreed

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Day 79: "German invasion!!!" This is it, people. If these don't hatch I'm done for the year. My last ditch effort to get some Niederrheiner chickens into my flock. I found a NPIP certified breeder in Louisiana who has a lovely little flock of the lemon yellow checkerboard chickens. It just so happened that she had another chicken variety that is on my chicken bucket list... the Salmon Faverolle, a chubby little poofy bird with a beard and muffs. So, I bought a dozen hatching eggs, 8 Niederrheiners, 4 Salmons, and just for fun, she threw in some Easter EggerXMarans (olive egger), and some Favaucanas (SalmonXAmeraucana). Into the incubator they went and in 21ish days we should know for sure how many made it.

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A Guide to Different Colored Chicken Eggs

Imagine the excitement of peering into your nesting boxes and finding a rainbow of different colored eggs every day. There are more than 60 breeds of chickens recognized by the American Poultry Association and hundreds of other chicken breeds that have been developed worldwide — many of whom lay gorgeous eggs in a rainbow of hues ranging from white to cream, green, pink, blue and even chocolate brown.

While the color of the eggshell doesn’t determine egg nutrient value or taste in the least, if you want to put some color in your egg basket, consider some of the following breeds that lay prettily hued eggs. Increasingly, these fairly rare breeds are becoming more widely available from hatcheries such as Chickens for Backyards and Meyer Hatchery, while others can still only be found from specialty breeders online.

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Add some of these delightful breeds to your flock, and in no time, you could be collecting green, blue, cream, pinkish and even chocolate brown eggs nearly year-round, not just at Easter time.

Blue Eggs

Ever since Martha Stewart shared photos a couple of years ago in her magazine of her egg baskets bursting to the brim with beautiful blue eggs laid by her own flock, azure eggs have been coveted by backyard chicken keepers everywhere also wanting beautiful, sky blue eggs in their baskets. Ameraucanas, Araucanas, and Cream Legbars all lay blue eggs.

Ameraucana chicken.

Green Eggs

To add a few green eggs in your basket, consider raising some aptly-named Easter Eggers. (In fact, a flock of this mixed breed of chickens can lay a rainbow of egg colors on their own including bluish, green, pinkish or cream!), Olive Eggers or Favaucanas. Several other breeds lay varying shades of green eggs. Olive Egger chickens (half Marans chickens and half Ameraucana chickens) lay olive green eggs, while a new breed developed by My Pet Chicken, the Favaucana (half Faverolle and half Ameraucana), lays a pale sage green egg. Isbars also lay a range of greenish-colored eggs from mossy to mint green.

Olive Egger chicken.

Cream/Pinkish Eggs

A nice change from ordinary brown or tan eggs, cream or pale pink eggs will add some subtle variety to your egg basket. Light Sussex, Mottled Javas, Australorps, Buff Orpingtons, Silkies, and Faverolles all lay a pinkish-cream egg. As noted above, some Easter Eggers will also lay cream or pink eggs, while others will lay green or bluish eggs.

Australorp (back) and Mottled Java (front) chickens.

Dark Brown Eggs

Brown eggs are pretty common, but gorgeous dark chocolate brown eggs lend a pop of rich color to your egg basket. If you are wondering which chickens lay dark brown eggs, here’s your answer: Welsummers, Barnevelders, Penedesencas, and Marans are all brown egg layers.

Black Copper Marans chickens.

White Eggs

If you’re still intent on dyeing some eggs for Easter, then you’ll want to add a few white eggs to the mix as well. Nestling in a basket with all the different colored chicken eggs from the chicken breeds listed above, white eggs also add a gorgeous contrast. Leghorns are the most common breed of white egg layer, but several other Mediterranean breeds of chickens including Andalusians and Anconas also lay white eggs, as do Lakenvelders, Polish, and Hamburg hens.

Andalusian chicken.

Once you have added some colorful egg layers to your flock, you might have friends and egg customers say they think that brown eggs taste better than white eggs. You might also have others look at your blue and green eggs and ask how they taste — if they taste different than white or brown eggs. So if you’re wondering how to respond to the question: Do different chicken egg colors taste different? The short answer is no. All chicken eggs are the same on the inside. Egg taste is dictated by what a hen eats. While a single food won’t change the taste of an egg, a diet high in grasses, seeds, vegetables, and herbs will result in a better tasting egg overall. And of course, the freshness of the egg matters the most.

Here are some additional interesting egg facts from Backyard Poultry: What do the egg facts on a store carton mean and Duck eggs vs. chicken eggs.

  Originally published in 2014 and regularly vetted for accuracy. 

EGG COLOR BY BREED White Eggs Blue Eggs Green Eggs Dark Brown Eggs Pinkish/Cream Eggs Ameraucana X Araucana X Cream Legbar X Easter Egger X X X Olive Egger X Favaucana X Sussex X Java X Australorp x Silkie X Orpington X Faverolles X Welsummer X Barnevelder X Marans X Penedesenca X Leghorn X Andalusian X Ancona X Lakenvelder X Polish X Hamburg X

A Guide to Different Colored Chicken Eggs was originally posted by All About Chickens

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Introducing Maya! The first of my chicks to hatch, I’ll never forget that morning at 4:30am! She’s always been a sweetheart, so friendly, she’s really something special!

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Oh! Baby Cheeks posed for a picture just after I mentioned I should take one!

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Socks is adorable, her face looks more like an Ameraucana’s but she’s got a heavier body like a Faverolles, plus lightly feathered legs! She was a shy chick but she seems to be opening up to me now that she’s maturing - that, or she realized she loves food more than she’s afraid of me, and realized I’m not so scary after all!

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Introducing Kay, AKA Baby Cheeks! Glad she grew up to be a pullet, that beard game is unmatched - and yes, she was born with it!

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Introducing Socks Jr, again named by (and after) a Discord friend. She’s the only one with feathered legs, so it’s a perfect name!

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I didn’t notice it before because their feet are still so teeny, but this little Favaucana has some interesting toesies! Instead of the usual 4 toes most chickens have, or the 5 toes that this baby’s Faverolles ancestors had, this kid has something in between - a 4th toe that branches in two! And that’s only on one foot - on the other foot, the fourth toe is slightly thicker at the end and has two claws instead of one! This shouldn’t impact the baby’s movement or quality of life or anything, I just think it makes them unique and interesting! Like, they’re a middle ground between their Faverolles and Ameraucana heritage! I look forward to watching this baby grow up!

[superfluffychickens]

It’s interesting seeing all the little physical differences between individual chicks. Two of the Favaucanas have 5 toes (although, it’s hard to describe, but their 5th toes aren’t as clearly-defined as those on a Faverolles or other 5-toed breeds. In a Faverolles, the 5th toe splits from the 4th toe at the base and they’re both the same length on both feet. My five-toes babies feet are asymmetrical, and the toes split somewhere in the middle):

I don’t know a lot about chicken genetics, but stuff like this is fascinating to me. That they could inherit not just a trait from one parent or the other (or a grandparent, etc.) but end up with something in between.

Also, Baby Cheeks never developed a toenail on the middle toe of their left foot. It’s just a nub there. And the Swedish Flower chick who has having trouble walking at birth because their toes were all curled up - their feet are flat and they have no trouble moving at all, but a few of their toes on one foot are, like, turned to the side. Just, the little differences each baby is born with, they each went on their own unique journeys of development to become the precious babies I was lucky enough to meet. Uh oh, I’m getting all emotional now 🥺😭

[superfluffychickens]

It’s still early to say, but I seem to have hatched an unbelievable amount of cockerels…like there’s only 5 chicks that I can say with any confidence are pullets. But like I said, they’re not even 3 weeks old yet so who knows. Especially with the Hmongs, all but one of them have scrawny-looking tails and are feathering in pretty slowly, and have a naturally upright posture anyway, so unless that’s a breed thing that’s not tied to sex there’s a possibility that 5 out of 6 are boys 😭 for the Favaucanas, looks like 2 girls and 3 boys, the Swedish Flowers are evenly split, there’s one female Hedemora, and there’s a couple babies who’s breed I lost track of but they all look pretty male. Bad luck this time, I guess, but they are sweet. The girls I do have are wonderful and beautiful, and I’m keeping at least one Hmong boy, maybe two. Once they’re fully feathered, I’ll put out some posts on the local FB chicken keeping posts to see if anyone wants them.

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Wow, what a lovely bouquet of babies! I love having a mixed flock, not only does it help to be able to tell individuals apart, but it’s just aesthetically pleasing and fun! Especially breeds like Easter and Olive Eggers, since they come in so many different colors and shapes you don’t quite know what you’re getting (unless you’re buying from someone breeding for a specific color I guess). That’s why I was excited to hatch all these landrace babies and the Favaucana crossbreeds, they’re all different colors! A lot of the babies I thought were just solid black as chicks are either dark brown with almost partridge-like patterns, or they have black and white patterns and lacing, or they’re shades of gray. There’s only a couple that are actually solid black now, and they still have lots of feathers to grow still so who knows! Plus a few have feathered legs, five toes, beards, crests, different comb shapes, it’s a real-live Gatchapon of babies!

Also, what’s your chicken sideblog? I’ll give it a follow and share it so more people can see!

Got my 20 piece chicken nugget box from the post office yesterday and my god I love these curious little cotton balls so much already

Oh my god 🥺🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭😭

Those first few days are the best, especially the way they just fall asleep every 5 minutes. Mine are in their hyperactive tiny dinosaur stage, they’re creating a feathery tornado in their room as I type this and one of them is trying to peck my eyeballs. It’s worth it though, to see them growing up healthy and strong!

Good luck, hope they all thrive!

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Getting to Know Olive Egger Chickens

Cross-Breed: Olive Egger chicken

Origin: Olive Egger chickens are not a breed, per se, but a cross of two breeds — usually a blue egg layer and a dark brown egg layer. For example, when an Ameraucana hen’s egg is fertilized by a Marans rooster, the resulting chick will be an Olive Egger who will lay olive green eggs. The chick will hatch out of a blue egg, but it will inherit the traits of both parents. From the mating example above, Olive Egger chickens often take on the coloring of a Marans (black with feathered feet) and Ameraucana features (like puffy cheeks).

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Egg Color: Olive green

Egg Size: Large

Laying Habits: 150-200 eggs would make a good year

Testimonial from an Olive Egger chicken owner: “I had really wanted to add some olive green eggs to my egg basket for a long time, and was concentrating more on the egg color than on the chicken breed itself, but now having raised Olive Egger chickens for several years, I can tell you that they are some of my favorite hens. Mine are a cross between a Black Ameraucana and a Black Copper Marans, so they’re solid black with the trademark Ameraucana cheek puffs, and one has the feathered feet of a Marans too! Unlike Marans who I find a bit standoffish, and Amerauanas which can be skittish, their offspring, the Olive Egger chicken, is a chatty, friendly hen who I think has retained some of the best qualities of each of their parents. My Olive Eggers are more consistent layers than my Ameraucanas, which is nice. They are extremely cold-hardy, but don’t seem overly bothered by heat either. They are on the smallish side, definitely more Amerauana-sized than Marans-sized, but their eggs are good-sized. They are fairly talkative chickens, but they tend to chatter quietly and rarely cluck loudly. They have been a wonderful addition to my backyard flock.” – Lisa Steele, from FreshEggsDaily.com

You can see the color variation between an (L to R) Olive Egger, Easter Egger and Ameraucana egg below. Photo by Lisa Steele, FreshEggsDaily.com

Comb: Varies

Popular Use: Eggs and meat Varieties: None recognized, as this is not a standard breed Temperament: Varies Skin Color: Varies

Weight: Usually large, but varies based on breeding It really isn’t an Olive Egger chicken if it is: Not a cross. Favaucanas, Ameraucanas, and Aruacanas have been known to lay greenish eggs from time to time, but are not considered Olive Egger chickens.

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Getting to Know Olive Egger Chickens was originally posted by All About Chickens

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Getting to Know Olive Egger Chickens

Cross-Breed: Olive Egger chicken

Origin: Olive Egger chickens are not a breed, per se, but a cross of two breeds — usually a blue egg layer and a dark brown egg layer. For example, when an Ameraucana hen’s egg is fertilized by a Marans rooster, the resulting chick will be an Olive Egger who will lay olive green eggs. The chick will hatch out of a blue egg, but it will inherit the traits of both parents. From the mating example above, Olive Egger chickens often take on the coloring of a Marans (black with feathered feet) and Ameraucana features (like puffy cheeks).

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Egg Color: Olive green

Egg Size: Large

Laying Habits: 150-200 eggs would make a good year

Testimonial from an Olive Egger chicken owner: “I had really wanted to add some olive green eggs to my egg basket for a long time, and was concentrating more on the egg color than on the chicken breed itself, but now having raised Olive Egger chickens for several years, I can tell you that they are some of my favorite hens. Mine are a cross between a Black Ameraucana and a Black Copper Marans, so they’re solid black with the trademark Ameraucana cheek puffs, and one has the feathered feet of a Marans too! Unlike Marans who I find a bit standoffish, and Amerauanas which can be skittish, their offspring, the Olive Egger chicken, is a chatty, friendly hen who I think has retained some of the best qualities of each of their parents. My Olive Eggers are more consistent layers than my Ameraucanas, which is nice. They are extremely cold-hardy, but don’t seem overly bothered by heat either. They are on the smallish side, definitely more Amerauana-sized than Marans-sized, but their eggs are good-sized. They are fairly talkative chickens, but they tend to chatter quietly and rarely cluck loudly. They have been a wonderful addition to my backyard flock.” – Lisa Steele, from FreshEggsDaily.com

You can see the color variation between an (L to R) Olive Egger, Easter Egger and Ameraucana egg below. Photo by Lisa Steele, FreshEggsDaily.com

Comb: Varies

Popular Use: Eggs and meat Varieties: None recognized, as this is not a standard breed Temperament: Varies Skin Color: Varies

Weight: Usually large, but varies based on breeding It really isn’t an Olive Egger chicken if it is: Not a cross. Favaucanas, Ameraucanas, and Aruacanas have been known to lay greenish eggs from time to time, but are not considered Olive Egger chickens.

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Originally published in 2016 as the May Breed of the Month and regularly vetted for accuracy.

Getting to Know Olive Egger Chickens was originally posted by All About Chickens

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A Guide to Different Colored Chicken Eggs

With Easter fast approaching, many of you will be turning your attention to dyeing eggs with your kids. But instead, what about raising a flock of backyard chickens that lay colored eggs for you — no artificial dyes required! Imagine the excitement of peering into your nesting boxes and finding a rainbow of different colored eggs every day. There are more than 60 breeds of chickens recognized by the American Poultry Association and hundreds of other chicken breeds that have been developed worldwide — many of whom lay gorgeous eggs in a rainbow of hues ranging from white to cream, green, pink, blue and even chocolate brown.

While the color of the eggshell doesn’t determine egg nutrient value or taste in the least, if you want to put some color in your egg basket, consider some of the following breeds that lay prettily hued eggs. Increasingly, these fairly rare breeds are becoming more widely available from hatcheries such as Chickens for Backyards and Meyer Hatchery, while others can still only be found from specialty breeders online.

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Add some of these delightful breeds to your flock, and in no time, you could be collecting green, blue, cream, pinkish and even chocolate brown eggs nearly year-round, not just at Easter time.

Blue Eggs

Ever since Martha Stewart shared photos a couple of years ago in her magazine of her egg baskets bursting to the brim with beautiful blue eggs laid by her own flock, azure eggs have been coveted by backyard chicken keepers everywhere also wanting beautiful, sky blue eggs in their baskets. Ameraucanas, Araucanas and Cream Legbars all lay blue eggs.

Ameraucana chicken.

Green Eggs

To add a few green eggs in your basket, consider raising some aptly-named Easter Eggers. (In fact, a flock of this mixed breed of chickens can lay a rainbow of egg colors on their own including bluish, green, pinkish or cream!), Olive Eggers or Favaucanas. Several other breeds lay varying shades of green eggs. Olive Egger chickens (half Marans chickens and half Ameraucana chickens) lay olive green eggs, while a new breed developed by My Pet Chicken, the Favaucana (half Faverolle and half Ameraucana), lays a pale sage green egg. Isbars also lay a range of greenish-colored eggs from mossy to mint green.

Olive Egger chicken.

Cream/Pinkish Eggs

A nice change from ordinary brown or tan eggs, cream or pale pink eggs will add some subtle variety to your egg basket. Light Sussex, Mottled Javas, Australorps, Buff Orpingtons, Silkies and Faverolles all lay a pinkish-cream egg. As noted above, some Easter Eggers will also lay cream or pink eggs, while others will lay green or bluish eggs.

Australorp (back) and Mottled Java (front) chickens.

Dark Brown Eggs

Brown eggs are pretty common, but gorgeous dark chocolate brown eggs lend a pop of rich color to your egg basket. If you are wondering which chickens lay dark brown eggs, here’s your answer: try raising some Welsummers, Barnevelders, Penedesencas or Marans.

Black Copper Marans chickens.

White Eggs

If you’re still intent on dyeing some eggs for Easter, then you’ll want to add a few white eggs to the mix as well. Nestling in a basket with all the different colored chicken eggs from the chicken breeds listed above, white eggs also add a gorgeous contrast. Leghorns are the most common breed of white egg layer, but several other Mediterranean breeds of chickens including Andalusians and Anconas also lay white eggs, as do Lakenvelders, Polish and Hamburg hens.

Andalusian chicken.

Once you have added some colorful egg layers to your flock, you might have friends and egg customers say they think that brown eggs taste better than white eggs. You might also have others look at your blue and green eggs and ask how they taste — if they taste different than white or brown eggs. So if you’re wondering how to respond to the question: Do different chicken egg colors taste different? The short answer is no. All chicken eggs are the same on the inside. Egg taste is dictated by what a hen eats. While a single food won’t change the taste of an egg, a diet high in grasses, seeds, vegetables, and herbs will result in a better tasting egg overall. And of course, the freshness of the egg matters the most.

Here are some additional interesting egg facts from Backyard Poultry: What do the egg facts on a store carton mean and Duck eggs vs. chicken eggs.

  Originally published in 2014 and regularly vetted for accuracy. 

EGG COLOR BY BREED White Eggs Blue Eggs Green Eggs Dark Brown Eggs Pinkish/Cream Eggs Ameraucana X Araucana X Cream Legbar X Easter Egger X X X Olive Egger X Favaucana X Sussex X Java X Australorp x Silkie X Orpington X Faverolles X Welsummer X Barnevelder X Marans X Penedesenca X Leghorn X Andalusian X Ancona X Lakenvelder X Polish X Hamburg X

A Guide to Different Colored Chicken Eggs was originally posted by All About Chickens