Best veriety in Hatchery EE's!

[fluffychickens]

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Wow

Your Chloe is very pretty.

 

[BrahmaMama]

Thank you for the compliment

 

[Sparklee]

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Well, hopefully you're still hanging around this thread a week later. Sorry so late, but I was searching for the hatchery that I saw mentioned in this section of the forum that was selling Easter Eggers without tails. Yeah, I know, it was probably late and I probably imagined it. That's how I stumbled on this older thread.

So to answer your question:

Cackle state in 2010 catalog: "Cackle Hatchery's breeding program goals for the 'Easter Egg Chickens' are: to produce chickens with a wide variety of colors, patterns, combinations of colors, with a full beard under the beak and high egg production of colorful eggs."

So, that's interesting that in Cackle's Catalog they call these birds Easter Egg Chickens. They state they are not Araucanas nor are they Ameraucanas.

I order about 10 Easter Eggers pullets from Cackle one year and about 5 another year.

The 5:
1 small blue hen that laid minty green eggs
2 standard looking EEs, brown orange with blue, sort of wild type looking
2 white with creamy orange marking on back with white head and gray head. Beards were gray also.

The 10:
Wild mixture. From memory,
2 whites with cream or buff marking on back and one with some yellow on chest
1 that is very very dark brown with a few golden flecks, mostly on head and the fewer on the chest and rest of body and none in tail area. A striking bird.
1 that has orange head and barring on rest of body with black bars on an orange background. (sort of Campine looking)
6 I think all the rest have blue in them with browns and golds mixed in. One is very yellow with blue. One is very gingery with blue. Etc.

I will not have any trouble telling them apart.

All seem to have green legs except the one that looks like a Campine, but isn't.

 

[yoie]

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Well, hopefully you're still hanging around this thread a week later. Sorry so late, but I was searching for the hatchery that I saw mentioned in this section of the forum that was selling Easter Eggers without tails. Yeah, I know, it was probably late and I probably imagined it. That's how I stumbled on this older thread.

So to answer your question:

Cackle state in 2010 catalog: "Cackle Hatchery's breeding program goals for the 'Easter Egg Chickens' are: to produce chickens with a wide variety of colors, patterns, combinations of colors, with a full beard under the beak and high egg production of colorful eggs."

So, that's interesting that in Cackle's Catalog they call these birds Easter Egg Chickens. They state they are not Araucanas nor are they Ameraucanas.

I order about 10 Easter Eggers pullets from Cackle one year and about 5 another year.

The 5:
1 small blue hen that laid minty green eggs
2 standard looking EEs, brown orange with blue, sort of wild type looking
2 white with creamy orange marking on back with white head and gray head. Beards were gray also.

The 10:
Wild mixture. From memory,
2 whites with cream or buff marking on back and one with some yellow on chest
1 that is very very dark brown with a few golden flecks, mostly on head and the fewer on the chest and rest of body and none in tail area. A striking bird.
1 that has orange head and barring on rest of body with black bars on an orange background. (sort of Campine looking)
6 I think all the rest have blue in them with browns and golds mixed in. One is very yellow with blue. One is very gingery with blue. Etc.

I will not have any trouble telling them apart.

All seem to have green legs except the one that looks like a Campine, but isn't.

Thank you for your reply I will keep Cackle in mind for my order next year, maybe I'll do 2 groups one from Ideal and one from Cackle to mix things up a bit

 

[N&MSchroeder]

Okay, since you haven't ordered, I have to put in a positive word for MyPetChicken.

Here are my girls! Very happy with them!

 

[KyBlue]

I'll throw in a few pics of my Mt. Healthy EEs.

Some new babies received from Mt. Healthy about 3 weeks ago.

 

[draye]

N&MSchroeder :

Okay, since you haven't ordered, I have to put in a positive word for MyPetChicken.

Here are my girls! Very happy with them!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/78998_p5290550.jpg

I think MPC is a drop shipper, rhey have them sent from another hatchery.

 

[draye]

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Those all look like good sized hens there.

 

[yoie]

Everyone has such variety from all hatcheries

Maybe I'll order a few from Hatchery A, a little from Hatchery B, and some from Hatchery C! There goes that chicken math again, good thing I don't have the space ready yet!

 

[KyBlue]

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Those all look like good sized hens there.

Yes, they are all big girls and most of them lay either a L or XL egg.