08/27/2026
•Our 2027 Breeds•
Hello everyone!
We thought we’d do a fun post about the breeds we’ll be offering for 2027 and, more importantly, why we breed them and why we love them so much. ❤️
We don’t choose our breeding groups simply because a breed is beautiful. We look at temperament, hardiness, egg production, breed characteristics and what we can contribute to each breeding program. One of our favorite parts of raising chickens is watching those carefully selected breeding groups produce something special.
🩵 Icelandics
Our Icelandic program is one we are especially excited about for 2027!
We produced a new rooster from our 2026 breeding group, including a beautiful rose-combed male that we’re excited to incorporate into our program.
There are so many reasons we love Icelandics:
* Extremely hardy and adaptable
* Handle both cold and hot weather well
* Reliable, consistent layers of white eggs
* Very personable when socialized from a young age
* Incredible variety of plumage colors and patterns
* Beautiful mottling, which our breeding group produces quite frequently
* Fabulous crests without being so excessive that they obstruct their vision
One of our favorite things about Icelandics is that you can hatch a group of chicks and get an incredible variety of colors and patterns.
💚 Easter Eggers & Olive Eggers
Our Egger program is going to be so much fun in 2027!
We’ve acquired a new Ameraucana rooster with an amazing temperament, and we’ve added several new hens to our breeding groups this season.
Our goal is to produce Eggers that stand out for both plumage and egg color.
We intentionally select breeds with calm, manageable temperaments and traits that we love, then combine those genetics to create unique offspring.
🤍 Silver Spangled Spitzhaubens
For 2027, we’ve made our Spitzhauben breeding group much smaller so that we can focus on the traits that are most important to us.
Our goal is to produce birds with:
* Tight, well-developed crests
* Clean, consistent spangling
* Good overall breed characteristics
* Even, manageable temperaments
For us, 2027 will be about perfecting our Spitzhaubens rather than producing large numbers.
We don’t expect to have a lot of Spitzhaubens available for sale, but there will still be chicks and eggs available here and there throughout the season.
🧡 NEW for 2027: Salmon Faverolles
We are incredibly excited to introduce Salmon Faverolles to The Rose Feather Coop!
We’ve spent this season carefully putting this breeding group together from three different breeders, selecting birds based on the qualities we value most.
We chose Faverolles because of their gentle, calm personalities and how well suited they are to a family flock and run setting. They’re also an absolutely gorgeous breed who lay beautiful pink eggs.
And there’s an extra exciting possibility with our breeding group:
We have the potential to produce Blue Faverolles. 💙
We can’t wait to share these beautiful birds with everyone in 2027!
🌹 Why We Breed
We want to produce birds that are beautiful, hardy, useful, personable and thoughtfully bred. It’s a family hobby, one that we love doing with our kids🖤
Every breeding group has a purpose. Some are focused on improving specific traits, some are focused on producing unique egg colors and plumage, and some are simply breeds we fell in love with and want to share with others.
Icelandics | Easter Eggers | Olive Eggers | Silver Spangled Spitzhaubens | Salmon Faverolles
Thank you for following along with The Rose Feather Coop and for supporting our little breeding program. We’re so excited to bring you along for the 2027 season! (Also looking forward to becoming NPIP so we can ship hatching eggs)
