← All breeds Easter Egger Easter Egger breed profile: Blue eggs, pea comb, slate legs, medium, good layer.
Standard at a glance This is an approximate profile for a rarer or variable breed. Check it against your own standard.
Eggs
Comb Pea comb
Legs Slate
Skin White Size, laying and temperament
Frame height medium
Egg production good layer
Broodiness rarely broody
Docility calm
Bone density medium
Foraging skill good forager
Cold hardiness cold-hardy On the app's 1 to 5 scale. Load this breed as a goal and every bird you score is matched against it.
Crosses with Easter Egger What a Easter Egger hen throws with a rooster of each breed. Open one for both directions and the full genetics.
× Ameraucana Blue eggs, pea comb × Araucana Blue eggs, pea comb × Barred Plymouth Rock Green or Cream/tinted eggs, pea comb × Bielefelder Green or Cream/tinted eggs, pea comb × Black Australorp Green or Cream/tinted eggs, pea comb × Black Copper Marans Green or Cream/tinted eggs, pea comb × Blue Andalusian Blue or White eggs, pea comb × Buff Orpington Green or Cream/tinted eggs, pea comb × Cochin Green or Cream/tinted eggs, pea comb × Delaware Green or Cream/tinted eggs, pea comb × Dominique Green or Cream/tinted eggs, walnut comb × Faverolles Green or Cream/tinted eggs, pea comb × Golden Comet Green or Cream/tinted eggs, pea comb × ISA Brown Green or Cream/tinted eggs, pea comb × Jersey Giant Green or Cream/tinted eggs, pea comb × Legbar Blue eggs, pea comb × Light Brahma Green or Cream/tinted eggs, pea comb × New Hampshire Green or Cream/tinted eggs, pea comb × Olive Egger Green eggs, pea comb × Polish Blue or White eggs, pea comb × Rhode Island Red Green or Cream/tinted eggs, pea comb × Silkie Green or Cream/tinted eggs, pea comb × Silver-Laced Wyandotte Green or Cream/tinted eggs, walnut comb × Speckled Sussex Green or Cream/tinted eggs, pea comb × Welsummer Green or Cream/tinted eggs, pea comb × White Leghorn Blue or White eggs, pea comb Now with your own birds Load the Easter Egger standard as your breeding goal in one tap. Add your flock, set a breeding goal, and the pairing engine ranks every hen and rooster you own against it. Free for up to 15 birds.
Sources Easter Egger Breed standards and profiles The Livestock Conservancy: breed pages and the "Pick a Breed" comparison chart (egg colour, rate of lay, broodiness, temperament, foraging, cold hardiness) Oklahoma State University, Breeds of Livestock: chickens (comb, skin and shank colour, egg colour, weights, origin) University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension A2880, Chicken Breeds and Varieties (egg colour, skin colour, comb, class and use) American Poultry Association, recognised breeds and varieties (which breeds and varieties are standardised) The Poultry Club of Great Britain, breed pages (British and rare breeds) Checked September 2026. Hybrids and breeds no reference covers are marked approximate. Egg colour on these pages follows one rule: Brown is any shade a buyer would call brown; Cream/tinted is off-white.