Easter Egger club!

[jannakaye]

My babies are getting fluffy. Any ideas on what colors they might be? Dad is splash and mom is wheaten.

What cuties! The one closest to the camera in the first pic looks like a splash to me, but I'm not very experienced with telling colors.

 

[jannakaye]

Todays picture and the day old picture . I was only able to catch 3 for pictures. Legbar x EE .

Adorable!

 

[jannakaye]

here's our dozen (they are 3 weeks old) (4 EEs, 3 Iowa Blues, & 5 are 75% Chantecler/25% IaB) :

Beautiful!

 

[vpatt]

I hope this doesn't come thru twice.

Is there a site or a thread that very simply explains egg colors and genes? I want to understand better since I have an olive egger, but it all sounds like Greek to me. Ty

 

[jerryse]

Here you go Ty

 

[vpatt]

Thank you! So my olive egger and my dom roo would only make light brown eggs?

 

[jerryse]

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No it should be 50% browns and 50% green in that cross .

 

[vpatt]

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No it should be 50% browns and 50% green in that cross .

Thnx! That is good to know.

 

[Cluck Wild Farm]

I love Easter Eggers! I have more EE's than any other breed. They are friendly, inquisitive, I love that you never know what color they'll end up being as an adult, and they lay beautiful eggs. What more can you want?


Sorry for the picture of my ugly mug, but this just goes to show how sweet and snuggly EE's are. This is June Bug and I have a feeling she's going to be my favorite chicken in the flock. As it stands, she's certainly my favorite chick. I brought her home last week and the first thing she did was hop right up in my lap.



Junebug - passed out after a big breakfast.



A picture from last summer of some of my big girls enjoying corn castoffs from the garden.



And finally, the best part of any chicken, their fluffy cabooses!

 

[mymilliefleur]

Here you go Ty

I have a hen that lays one of those dull spearmint eggs. I can't wait for her to start laying again.