Any idea on breed? Assuming they are all mixed but not sure with what

[Urbanchicksnewbie]

 

[-Chanticleer-]

They look like Easter eggers. A Maran mix for the bottom two and the top one not too sure the mix but an EE.

 

[Urbanchicksnewbie]

They look like Easter eggers. A Maran mix for the bottom two and the top one not too sure the mix but an EE.

Stupid question maybe- but is an EE just a catch all for a barnyard mix ? I thought it meant it had to have a blue egg gene, how can u tell ? These chickens all look very different from one another.

 

[-Chanticleer-]

Stupid question maybe- but is an EE just a catch all for a barnyard mix ? I thought it meant it had to have a blue egg gene, how can u tell ? These chickens all look very different from one another.

Not a stupid question. Just learning. EE is a bird that is the product of a brown egg gene and blue egg gene bird. When that happens they usually will lay a green or blue egg. Barnyard mix is any mix really. But olive egger and Easter eggers are usually bred with a blue and brown or a blue and dark brown breed to produce a certain colored egg.

 

[EChicky]

Easter eggers are a mix between Araucana or Ameraucana chickens and a brown egg layer. You definitely have some Easter eggers in there. The first one looks like my Easter egger Sandy. Here's her when she was a chick.

 

[EChicky]

Not a stupid question. Just learning. EE is a bird that is the product of a brown egg gene and blue egg gene bird. When that happens they usually will lay a green or blue egg. Barnyard mix is any mix really. But olive egger and Easter eggers are usually bred with a blue and brown or a blue and dark brown breed to produce a certain colored egg.

And dont worry, that's not a stupid question.

 

[nuthatched]

Stupid question maybe- but is an EE just a catch all for a barnyard mix ? I thought it meant it had to have a blue egg gene, how can u tell ? These chickens all look very different from one another.

Easter eggers are any bird that has the possibility of laying colored, green, blue, olive etc eggs, not all do but that doesn't mean they're not ee.