2 EEs being added to flock this weekend, would love to see pics of everyones EEs!

Blooie said:

Well, let's see - pictures of EEs, huh? Might just as well ask if I have any pictures of my grandkids!!!

Our beautiful Gladys - cover girl shot used on our egg brochures.


Ken with Gladys.


Gladys and Agatha as teenagers, strutting their stuff like runway models!


Agatha and her sole chick, Scout. She is now sitting on 9 eggs from Scout.


Scout, the lone chick out of the shipped eggs we gave Agatha to hatch. He has deformed feet from frostbite but nothing stops him!


Lovely Pearl! No fluffy face, but her coloring was just stunning. We lost her last year.


Pearly-girl again. She was something!


And one more of Pearl.


Daphne, another smooth faced EE - and the flock complainer. Nothing pleases Daphne!



And quiet, unassuming little Mathilda as a teenager!

Mathilda all grown up. She's just a sweet girl who happens to have a face like a Cossack!

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I love all the beautiful variety of colors! Thats the best thing about chickens, they have such personality and are so interesting! Thanks! The pictures are amazing. I hope to put some of my new girls soon!

OY! the most spastic flighty birds I own. They act like I am the chicken killer each time I catch them though they were handled pretty regularly for the first 9 weeks. I am really sorry that I got them to tell you the truth. I have Buff Orps and Production reds from last year and Brahmas with these 2 this year and these 2 are by far the most unsociable little freaks I have. I do not expect my chickens to love me but it is nice if I don't have to be an acrobat to do a health check. I wish I would have just got the 4 Brahmas I had planned on but at the last moment I split the numbers up between the 2. sigh.

Isn't it funny how different it is from group to group? I detested my bully Golden Laced Wyandottes and rehomed them most pronto when a neighbor lost her entire flock just at POL to dogs. And yet most people just love them. Same with my Buff Orpington....she's aloof, spooky, and although I can't say she's nasty, she's just not nice. My EE's are easy to handle when I need to, have been good little layers, and Agatha is a good broody. The only time she's crabby is when she's brooding, and then we call her Attilla the Hen. And poor Scout - what he went through as a chick shouldn't happen to any little critter. He runs from me, because I was the one doing all the unpleasant treatments, but he still comes to Ken.

That said, I'm not one of those people who wants to step out the door and be mobbed by chickens. I LIKE things the way they are - I don't have lap-sitters or shoulder-riders and that's fine with me. I don't even like them eating of my hand - I've been pecked when they get over eager and I don't like it. So I like them to be chickens...I can approach them, check them if I need to, and the biggest thing for me is that my grandkids can take care of them when Ken and I leave town, which we do very often for his lodge activities. Evan and Katie started taking care of the chickens when they were just 8 years old (they are cousins, not brother and sister) and they do a superb job. I couldn't do that if I didn't have chickens I can trust completely with the kids. My other grandchild, 3 year old Kendra, is in a wheelchair and again, I have to trust every bird out there. My Easter Eggers are high on that list.

I have heard that they do not always follow what is expected of the breed but overall I have heard great things about them and hope that mine will be not difficult to work with. They seem to have a good start when I handled them at the breeder.

Here are our two girls! Meet Furiosa and Artemis. Artemis is one laying down with beard and Furiosa is standing up in front.