These charts often provide information on the breed’s egg color and size, as well as details about their adaptability, brooding tendencies, and coop recommendations. A chicken breed chart will help you find the perfect breed for your needs and preferences.

Chickens lay different colour eggs through selection, either of shell colour, pigment or both. Egg colours can be mixed by cross breeding chickens. Olive eggers for example are a cross between chickens that produce an egg with a green shell and brown pigment.

Chicken Breed Picture Bird Size lb. Egg Color and Size Cold Hardy Behavior Brooding/Best Coop Recommendation Egg Laying Araucana blue yes well adaptable to confinement or free range; calm, non-aggressive good, or frequent, brooder Best Coop: EZ-fit 3 x 4 Chicken Coop good Aseel 5- 5 3/4 cream yes bears confinement better than most other game ...

Use the chicken breed list below to help you choose the right chicken. This list includes all of the chicken breeds that are for sale at Cackle Hatchery. Click the name of the chicken breed for more information, to see an image of that breed and for purchasing options.

Size is based on those laid during a hen's prime laying years. Pullets will lay much smaller eggs, and, as hens get older, they will lay increasingly larger eggs. Size of eggs will vary by both variety and individual hen.