The Side Chicks
Colourful eggs.
Happy chickens.
Questionable names.
Our little flock is built around one fairly simple obsession: beautiful, naturally coloured eggs.
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From blue and green to olive, cream, brown and dark chocolate, we breed and select chickens for a colourful egg basket, while making sure they live very good chicken lives along the way.
Naturally Coloured
No dyes. No tricks. Just genetics.
Chickens naturally lay eggs in a remarkable range of colours, depending on their breed and genetics.
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Our flock includes birds and breeding lines that produce blue, green, olive, cream, brown and dark chocolate eggs. By carefully selecting and crossing different coloured-egg genetics, we can produce an increasingly varied and interesting egg basket.
Our Breeding Programme
A small flock with a lot of character
Induli Khaya is home to a small and growing flock that includes Dongxiang, Easter Egger, Olive Egger, Araucana, Rhode Island Red, Splash Orpington, Blue-Red Leghorn and Marans genetics.
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Some birds are kept for specific egg colours, some for breeding, and some simply because we like them too much to part with them.
Life at Induli Khaya
Plenty of space to chicken
Our chickens are housed securely overnight and spend their days free ranging across approximately six hectares of horse paddocks at Induli Khaya.
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They scratch, forage, dust-bathe, sun themselves, follow the horses around and generally involve themselves in anything that looks remotely interesting.
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We keep the flock small enough that we know the individual birds, their personalities and, in most cases, exactly who laid which egg.
Available from Induli Khaya
Eggs, chicks & occasionally young pullets and cockerels
Rainbow Table Eggs
​Mixed naturally coloured eggs from pasture raised chickens for your table.
Fertilised Hatching Eggs
Currently available from selected Easter Egger and Olive Egger breeding combinations.
Chicks
Occasionally available from selected hatches, depending on numbers and what we are retaining.
Young Birds
Pullets and cockerels may occasionally be available once they are old enough to assess properly.
Every egg basket looks different
One of the things we love most about keeping a mixed flock is never quite knowing what the day’s egg basket will look like.
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Egg colour is influenced by genetics, breed and individual hens, and even birds from similar breeding lines can produce slightly different shades. That variation is part of the fun.
