18/02/2025
If vibrant and amazing shades of coloured eggs is top of your list, the rainbow range is for you!
We have four different breeding teams under the rainbow range banner.
Standard Rainbow coloured egg range
Mini Rainbow coloured egg range
Standard Olive egg range
Standard Pink egg range
We boast some of the best colours you will find, which are the result of over 16 years of careful breeding and team selection.
All of the hens we have in our teams are mulit-generational, mature, proven breeder of quality chicks.
There are no pure breed or F1 crosses in these teams.
Pullets are never used in our breeding teams.
From these teams, you can purchase fertile hatching eggs, hatch ready eggs and chicks.
Occasionally a small number of young pullets will be available
STANDARD RAINBOW COLOURED EGG RANGE
This is one of our most popular breeding teams and it produces the most vibrant and diverse range of colours from the one team of hens. These hens are all unique to us, as we have carefully bred them over many years to achieve the amazing colours they lay. These multi-generational hens lay a wide range of colours and shades and some of our most speckled eggs come from this team.
Shell colours from our current birds include blue, green, slate, olive, speckled green, speckled brown, pink and a many variations in between including lots of speckles.
All of the breeders we use are full size (standard) hens and roosters.
MINI RAINBOW COLOURED EGG RANGE
This breeding team of mini rainbows are always a favourite. We set about creating this team through the careful selection of breeding pretty little hens, who lay pretty little eggs.
The egg colours in this range are blue, green, blue/green, light slate, speckles and some pinkish tans, plus the odd creamy shade.
Each hen is unique in feather colour and appearance, with very sweet and placid natures.
All of the breeders we use are bantam size (small) hens and roosters.
STANDARD OLIVE EGG RANGE
Our breeding team of birds in this pen have been developed by us oven many years of selective breeding.
As a result, the hens are intentionally crossed, over many generations and years, where we breed for our desired result.
We have two olive breeding teams, with each one producing different results.
The wheaten team - The aims we had when creating this team were to produce dark olive layers and to have wheaten coloured birds, who are easy to correctly s*x early on in the grow out stage.
The pullets will appear much lighter in feathering, than the cockerels.
The rooster we are using over these multi-generational hens is a pure wheaten marans, which means that genetically, the resulting female chicks hatched from this team will consist of 50% laying super dark olive eggs and the other 50% laying dark brown eggs.
Once a pullet starts to lay either colour (dark green or dark brown), she will not change, however, the bloom she places on the egg may change daily.
The reason we are using a wheaten marans rooster in this team is to further improve and darken our olive egg shades and this rooster was hatched from a very heavy bloomed laying hen, which will further enhance the egg shades of the offspring.
All of the breeders we use are full size (standard) hens and roosters.
The bloomy team - The aims we had in creating this team were to produce 100% green laying offspring, with the possibilities of gold and grey shades, due to the bloom. The diversity of feather and bird colour in this team is very diverse, and not limited to the wheaten like our other team. The resulting shades of eggs will also be more varied from this team, but will all be a shade of green. All of the breeders we use are full size (standard) hens and roosters.
STANDARD PINK EGG TEAM
There is no specific breed of chickens who lay pure pink eggs, and a simple cross , or crosses, is not possible to guarantee pink laying offspring, so the breeding process is quite complex for the pink layers.
Over the many years we have been breeding, we have been chasing the elusive pink laying team, and right now, we have a decent result.
This team of hens consist of a very diverse and colourful flock, so the resulting chicks will hatch in many different colours.
Not all of the pullets hatched from this team will continue to lay pink eggs, some may lay shades of tan and light brown - but what we have found is that very often the pullets who lay the tan to brown shades in their first season, progress to laying beautiful bloomy pinks as they mature into hens. This adds an extra layer of complexity to the every elusive true pink layer. The roosters we use in this team are also diverse and multi-generational, which we have hatched from the most beautiful and vibrant pink laying hens we have. A simple pink x pink cross doesn't work, so very occasionally, you will find a layer who's genetics have thrown back to another coloured combo we had used in the past in this line. All of the breeders we use are full size (standard) hens and roosters.
We often get asked which breed is which when a whole bunch of chicks are hatched from eggs, so hopefully this post explains things better, and you will see there is no actual breed, but many years of hard work and careful selection in each team.
There is all of this info, plus a bit more on our website too.
Hello and welcome to Chloe's Poultry
