Note: Please follow the limits and do not add more than what is allowed. Limits are to ensure I can fill orders in a timely manner and always ship the freshest eggs possible. Ordering more than allowed will result in a cancellation of your order. 

Can’t choose just one? Create your own dozen! 🐣

Build a custom assortment of 12 hatching eggs from The Happy Henstead breeding pens. This option is perfect for anyone who wants to hatch a colorful, diverse flock or sample several of our breeds and breeding projects in a single hatch.

Choose exactly which eggs you’d like included in your dozen, subject to the individual limits below.

Choose From:

💜 Lavender Birchen Marans

Limit: 2 eggs per dozen

A beautiful and uncommon Marans variety featuring soft lavender plumage with classic birchen patterning. Our Lavender Birchen Marans are selected with particular attention to egg color, bloom, and overall breed quality.

Why choose them: Rare color variety • Beautiful brown eggs • Potential for gorgeous bloom

🍋 Lemon Cuckoo Niederrheiner

Limit: 2 eggs per dozen

Large, gentle birds with striking lemon-and-white cuckoo plumage. Niederrheiners are a unique European breed and make a wonderful addition for anyone looking for something a little different in their flock.

Why choose them: Uncommon breed • Large birds • Beautiful lemon cuckoo coloring • Calm temperament

🤎 Black Copper Marans

Limit: 6 eggs per dozen

One of the most sought-after dark egg breeds! Black Copper Marans are famous for their rich chocolate-brown eggs and striking black-and-copper plumage. They’re an excellent choice for adding deeper shades to your future egg basket.

Why choose them: Dark brown egg genetics • Classic Marans beauty • Excellent choice for colorful egg baskets

🤍 Ermine Ameraucana

Limit: 5 eggs per dozen

Our Ermine Ameraucanas combine true Ameraucana blue-egg genetics with beautiful, highly variable plumage. Depending on the pairing, chicks may hatch in ermine, black, or dominant-white-based coloring.

Why choose them: Blue egg genetics • Unique chick colors • Beards & muffs • Excellent rainbow-basket addition

🖤 Silkies

Limit: 4 eggs per dozen

Small, fluffy, and full of personality! Our Silkie breeding group includes genetics for several exciting colors and traits, so every hatch can hold a few surprises. Depending on the pairing, chicks may include black, paint, mottled and other variations, with Silkie or Satin feathering possible.

Why choose them: Adorable fluffy chicks • Fun color possibilities • Silkie & Satin possibilities • Wonderful broody hens

🌈 Rainbow Layers

No individual limit

The ultimate choice for anyone who loves surprises! Our Rainbow Layer pen brings together genetics selected for colorful eggs, bloom, speckles, and variety. Chicks may hatch in a wide range of colors and patterns, and pullets may eventually produce shades of blue, green, olive, brown, cream, pink-toned or heavily bloomed eggs depending on the genetics inherited.

Because this is a mixed breeding project, neither chick appearance nor future egg color can be guaranteed—and that’s part of the fun!

Why choose them: Maximum variety • Colorful egg genetics • Bloom & speckle projects • Surprise chick colors

How It Works

Select a total of 12 eggs while staying within the maximum quantity allowed for each option:

• Lavender Birchen Marans — maximum 2
• Lemon Cuckoo Niederrheiner — maximum 2
• Black Copper Marans — maximum 6
• Ermine Ameraucana — maximum 5
• Silkies — maximum 5
• Rainbow Layers — no individual limit

Important Hatching Egg Information

Hatching eggs are carefully selected and packaged for shipping, but fertility and hatch rates cannot be guaranteed after shipment. Shipping conditions, handling, incubator accuracy, temperature, humidity, and other factors outside our control can all affect development and hatch rates.

We carefully manage our breeding pens with the goal of producing healthy, beautiful chicks while continuing to select for the traits we love most—including unique plumage, colorful eggs, heavy bloom and speckles.

Your custom dozen makes it possible to experience several pieces of The Happy Henstead breeding program in one hatch.

Build your dozen, fire up the incubator, and see what surprises hatch! 🐣🥚