Ahhh! The old if you don't want them I will take them gambit.LOL!!! That is how I ended up with quite a few of my previous roosters. I live in the country so only me and mine to hear them. I also got 70 old laying hens that way which is cool, free hens, free eggs. Sadly I am down to 20 of...
you are correct about being lied to. It is not fair and unfortunate. I wonder if it was a matter of one being accidentally put in the wrong bin. I am sure you have mentioned wether you called them or not, I have not read all the posts. They may be willing to send you a chick to make up for...
First of all I love EE's. They are the first to run to see me, they lay beautiful eggs where they are supposed to. They don't try to hide them like my other breeds do. They are funny looking with their beards and fierce little eyes. I even have araucana X EE's that are too cute.
I have a...
all of my EE chicks have willow or green legs.
Think of EE's as a non standard color americana cross. They can be any color just about, will lay blue, green, pinkish eggs. Egg coloring will not help you tell them apart. My EE hens all lay very pretty blue eggs except 2 or 3 that lay green...
It is nice that the hatcherie advertised them as Easter Eggers. It seems to me that if people are looking for chickens that lay pretty colored eggs the term easter egger would be a lovely beacon, and the truth since they can lay a number of colors of eggs from brown, blue, green, pink, almost...
I have both araucana ( rumpless tufted ) and Easter Eggers ( which are my own araucana cross's). I sell my eggs at a farmers market and I have a flyer I made up that explains the difference if anyone is interested. The frustration I have is not with the hatcheries, it is with people on ebay...