Unless you have a broody hen who hides a nest (Other hens might lay in it too.) and then incubates the eggs for twenty one days you won't be getting chicks, all you will be getting is fertilized eggs, and as far as eating, I and others cannot tell the difference.
I like a colored egg basket so I have a flock with lots of breeds in it. My EE's are some of my steadiest and best layers and lay extra large eggs. In fact the only eggs I'm getting now are my greens and blues and thankfully some of my white laying pullets from last spring have started laying...
Beautiful egg color. The one on the top looks olive to me. I have several young olive eggers but they are too young to lay. I keep hoping in another month or two. I'm getting mostly variations on your middle egg. blues, pale greens, and even, what I call a slate blue. My EE's are some of my...
Not sure if this is the case for all hatcheries. I've gotten hatchery EE's that lay blue eggs while if the blue egg gene is added to a brown egg gene only greens should be gotten. Some of my EE's are EE's because of coloration of the hen. I've been breeding my own for several years now and...
Easter egger
Ameraucana
Olive egger
Cream legbar
Buckeye
Welsumer
Black Copper Marans
Blue Splash Marans
California Grey
(Mixes- most contain Jersey Giant and/or Easter egger)
Bantams:
Old English Game
Booted
And next year I intend to add Whoops that just sneaked out......