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My understanding is that EEs have the blue egg gene. They can lay anything from blue, green, to pink or some shade of brown. Our last one laid a beautiful pearly brown egg. You can hope for a green egg, but no guarantee. Also, SS is right about feed stores not knowing what breed they are selling. I have a beautiful Speckled Sussex that I bought as a brown leghorn. And I had 2 sex links that I bought as California Whites.
The "squat" is what they do when the rooster approaches, too. Without a rooster in the flock, there is more of that behavior - as if you are seen as the rooster figure. With a rooster in the flock, they may or may not squat, I have found.
My understanding is that EEs have the blue egg gene. They can lay anything from blue, green, to pink or some shade of brown. Our last one laid a beautiful pearly brown egg. You can hope for a green egg, but no guarantee. Also, SS is right about feed stores not knowing what breed they are selling. I have a beautiful Speckled Sussex that I bought as a brown leghorn. And I had 2 sex links that I bought as California Whites.
The "squat" is what they do when the rooster approaches, too. Without a rooster in the flock, there is more of that behavior - as if you are seen as the rooster figure. With a rooster in the flock, they may or may not squat, I have found.
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