Easter Egger club!

[FVRM]

I ordered 3 "auracauna" chicks from my local feed store....to bedeliveredthe end of April.

Can anyone give me advice on how to pick them out? They're supposedly sexed. Is there something I can look for to rule out Roos? I want pretty birds and colorful eggs. Do darker colored legs mean greener or olive eggs? Should I pick 3 different colors or look for puffy cheeks?

Does anyone have chick to adult pics or know where I can find a chart online?

Thanks!

There are a few EE chick to adult pic threads here. The leg color doesn't have anything to do with egg color. Their colors change so much when they start to get older. I had a silverish one and it's turning out to be black and white.

 

[FVRM]

Stay away from light colored ones and go with the darker chick colors, those have more unique colors later on.

 

[SlipsWife]

Just had to share, the pullet on the left is an EE that started out grayish and on the right is a Cinnamon Queen. I was so excited when we got this chick because I was sure she was going to be really pretty and unique...I thought wrong...from now on I will not sell an EE's until they are at least 8 weeks. I'm crossing my fingers she lays pretty eggs but I'm willing to bet she'll lay brown...



She's one of the 2 on the left. I sold the other one that looks just like her, she also feathered out looking exactly like a Cinnamon Queen minus the leg color and comb.

 

[SlipsWife]

Stay away from light colored ones and go with the darker chick colors, those have more unique colors later on.

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My favorite from this year was my least favorite chick. She was pretty much just a dark fluff ball, no real pretty markings and I love her now!

 

[cabinchicky]

very nice pics! I just received my newest day old bunch of 24, one is a roo, which one I have no idea. will keep looking here for ideas how to find him as he ages. love the EEs!I have both standard and banty now of them.

 

[PrairieChickens]

Watch the legs. In my experience, the first sign an EE is a boy is when his legs thicken up.

 

[cabinchicky]

Thank you I will watch leg growth. have one yellow with two darker spots on the head, every other chick has the stripes like a wild turkey polt.

 

[savannahm0m]

I have two EE chicks, and neither turned out as I expected, but in my eyes, they are both gorgeous! The first one is now 11 weeks old, and the second is about 6 weeks old.
The little puffball on the right:

looked like this at 4 weeks:

and then grew into this girl at 11 weeks:

This little girl with a big brown stripe down her back:

is now this gray girl in front...at least she still has eyeliner:

We got the 1st one from a feed store, and the 2nd one came from Meyer Hatchery.

 

[rescueacres]

This boy was a light yellow chick. I dont have any pics but he had the chipmunk strips and was so cute.

This is him now.

 

[PrairieChickens]

I never had any interest in owning a rooster until I saw an EE roo. They are, in my opinion, the prettiest of all roosters.