They are. I love the color variety. I only have two or three that are laying blue eggs, so 10 of the eggs are blue. I'm hoping maybe that will up their chances of laying blue eggs. One hen keeps laying this oddly roundish egg, so I want to see what comes out of one of those. Then another egg lays a light brown with brown speckles, so I want to see what comes out of that. Not all my hens are americauna/easter egger, but the rooster is supposed to be americauna.
I just have had a couple Easter Eggers but I really like the lavender americaunas! I really like lavender! I should (perhaps?) try to control myself
My young lavender silkies will be six months in December, but where you are, is it warm enough that they will start laying? I wonder when mine will. I had some pullets not lay until 8+ months old recently. They actually waited till the end of Summer, and they were hatched on New Years!
My younger girls (not silkies since I don't have grown ones) do lay through winter. The ones on their second fall, molt and then eventually start laying again.
I set 42 eggs on Sunday (10/16); due to hatch on 11/6. They are a mix: Swedish Ishbars, Lavender Orpington and some EEs.
I also set 5 garden varieties due to hatch next week (10/28). Rooster is a mixed Light Braham and the hens are golden comets, barred rock and grey brahma bantam.
The ones I'm most curious about are from a mixed Light Braham (roo) and a Grey Braham Batam (hen). I've got 2 eggs in the first batch and 4 in the second. 5 days and already signs of life! It's a good thing, too, because something got my Light Braham rooster yesterday
Good luck to everyone! Looking forward to updates and pics!
Yes, we just can't stop! I have eight Silver Laced Wyandotte eggs in the incubator, expecting a Veteran's Day hatch. I guess I'll have to call the roos "Patton," "McArthur," "Eisenhower"...
