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post #21 of 11377
12/5/09 at 3:46pm

From what I've read, there are only two colors of eggs, white and blue.  Brown eggs are a brown overlay over a white egg.  Green eggs are a brown overlay over a blue egg.  The inside of my EEs eggs are blue, the insides of my brown eggs are white.

-Ann, a gardening beek who now has chickens:  3 BRs, 2 BOs , 3 GLWs, 3 RIRs, 3 EEs and a Bantam EE Roo who doesn't know he's small!

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-Ann, a gardening beek who now has chickens:  3 BRs, 2 BOs , 3 GLWs, 3 RIRs, 3 EEs and a Bantam EE Roo who doesn't know he's small!

Come visit The Easy Garden for answers to your gardening questions - big or small.  We dig dirt!
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post #22 of 11377
12/5/09 at 3:54pm

Ariel301 - your buffs look a lot like my Roy and your silver falcon looks a lot like the ones that come from the hatchery in our area Rustysgirl has some just like her - I love the look - perhaps we should "officially name that EE color the "Silver Falcon" ; where are you from?


I'm in northern Arizona. I got all my EEs secondhand from a lady who has raised them for several generations but decided to give them up since her kids lost interest and she was having some serious coyote attacks. I don't know where she got them from originally. She sold this group to me as "Araucana/bantam cross". She did not seem to know that there were multiple kinds of bantam, when I asked her what kind of bantam, she just looked at me funny and said it was a 'banty rooster'.

  "Silver Falcon"...I like it. smile I hope she has more chicks in her color, it's funny that the two I have out of her look nothing like her and not much like the rooster either!

Currently chicken-less, hoping to get a fresh start soon.
My wish-list: Old English Game Bantams, American Game, D'uccles, Japanese Bantams, Bantam Cornish, Large Fowl Cornish, Lakenvelders, Welsummers, Kraienkoppen, Andalusians, Speckled Sussex, Cubalaya, Sumatra, Easter Egger (large and bantam), Orpingtons, Iowa Blue, Marans...I think I'm going to need a lot of pens!
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Currently chicken-less, hoping to get a fresh start soon.
My wish-list: Old English Game Bantams, American Game, D'uccles, Japanese Bantams, Bantam Cornish, Large Fowl Cornish, Lakenvelders, Welsummers, Kraienkoppen, Andalusians, Speckled Sussex, Cubalaya, Sumatra, Easter Egger (large and bantam), Orpingtons, Iowa Blue, Marans...I think I'm going to need a lot of pens!
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post #23 of 11377
12/5/09 at 4:29pm
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Originally Posted by Reinbeau 

From what I've read, there are only two colors of eggs, white and blue.  Brown eggs are a brown overlay over a white egg.  Green eggs are a brown overlay over a blue egg.  The inside of my EEs eggs are blue, the insides of my brown eggs are white.


I agree. The insides of my EE eggs (the green or blue ones) are blue as well.

BTW Japanese,mille fleur Jap project,  corturnix quail, some red chickens I got at TSC, one EE and 2 EE chicks, and some really poor pyncheons, 10 ducks and 2 welsh harlequin ducklings,  one pheasant hen, one pheasant chick, one MFC chick, 2 Norwegian Jaerhon chicks.
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BTW Japanese,mille fleur Jap project,  corturnix quail, some red chickens I got at TSC, one EE and 2 EE chicks, and some really poor pyncheons, 10 ducks and 2 welsh harlequin ducklings,  one pheasant hen, one pheasant chick, one MFC chick, 2 Norwegian Jaerhon chicks.
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post #24 of 11377
12/5/09 at 4:33pm
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maybe mine are the crazy ones then, the insides of all of our green eggs are white.

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post #25 of 11377
12/5/09 at 5:31pm

Look carefully, Katy, put them against something white - I think you'll see it's actually a light blue tint.

-Ann, a gardening beek who now has chickens:  3 BRs, 2 BOs , 3 GLWs, 3 RIRs, 3 EEs and a Bantam EE Roo who doesn't know he's small!

Come visit The Easy Garden for answers to your gardening questions - big or small.  We dig dirt!
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-Ann, a gardening beek who now has chickens:  3 BRs, 2 BOs , 3 GLWs, 3 RIRs, 3 EEs and a Bantam EE Roo who doesn't know he's small!

Come visit The Easy Garden for answers to your gardening questions - big or small.  We dig dirt!
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post #26 of 11377
12/5/09 at 6:29pm
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Originally Posted by KatyTheChickenLady 

Turtlefeathers - you deffinately win the award for the most colorful yard!

Chickenaddict - your squirt is one of the cutest babies I've seen! and your cochine EE roo is really pretty, is he the daddy of squirt?

Ariel301 - your buffs look a lot like my Roy and your silver falcon looks a lot like the ones that come from the hatchery in our area Rustysgirl has some just like her - I love the look - perhaps we should "officially name that EE color the "Silver Falcon" ; where are you from?

Kansaseq - your pheasant colored gorls look just like mine . . . and I LOVE your buff roo in the background; where did you get him from? . . . if you ever want to sell him . . . big_smile


Thanks, Katy, he was a beautiful boy. He was actually a Buff Orpington, though, and he sired some beautiful EE/Bo babies. I gave him away when he became aggressive. I was VERY honest as to why he was up for grabs, and his new owner was ok with it.

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post #27 of 11377
12/5/09 at 6:32pm
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Originally Posted by KatyTheChickenLady 

maybe mine are the crazy ones then, the insides of all of our green eggs are white.


When you crack open one of the green EE eggs, grab the membrane and peel it away, while the inside of the egg shell is still wet.  That's how I discovered the really pretty blue shell inside!  I saw the blue tint through the white membrane, and peeled it away.

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post #28 of 11377
12/5/09 at 6:40pm

Thanks Katy.  This spring, if I still long to see that robin's-egg-blue color on the OUTSIDE shell, I'll check into adding one or two purebred Ameraucanas.

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post #29 of 11377
12/5/09 at 6:44pm

Another post... So, someone earlier said they had EE in LF, bantam, etc.  What's LF?

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post #30 of 11377
12/5/09 at 6:56pm

LF means large fowl wink

Mother to two great adult boys, and a 19 year old Yorki/Pom mix.  Right now chickenless  :(

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Mother to two great adult boys, and a 19 year old Yorki/Pom mix.  Right now chickenless  :(

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