Cackle Hatchery Speckled Egger

[CtyGrlwantsaFrm]

Did anyone get any of the new "Speckled Egger" chicks or hatching eggs from Cackle Hatchery?

 

[casportpony]

I just looked those up, those are pretty eggs!

 

[BaaKaaawk]

Look like giant quail eggs. I actually have some kind of speckled layer but not by breed. Nothing as notable as those though, pretty cool.

Sounds like from their description they're some kind of giant mutt breed they went for that recessive gene in. Smart.

"The Speckled Egger™ is a unique offering and breeding from Cackle Hatchery. These beautiful eggs will amaze you with the different dark spots on each egg and not one will look alike. You will get shades of green to dark brown eggs with the splatting of dark spots. Most of the chicks will have stripes down their back with dark and light markings on them as they arrive at your home. There are no conformed color patterns in the feathers of a grown hen on this offering because it is a breeding of crosses. Don’t ask us about the breeding, we will not tell you…. LOL…. Get started with adding this unique mix to your backyard flock today… "

 

[CtyGrlwantsaFrm]

Yeah, I missed the boat on ordering..i waited to try to time it with the arrival of my Isbar eggs, but they sold out. I was hoping someone on here might have extra chicks of that "breed."

 

[HiEverybirdy]

I was window shopping on the Cackle website just now and saw Speckled Egger™ chicks are sold out for 2021 already. Popular much!? Can anyone post pictures of what these chickens look like? They only have a picture of the eggs on the Cackle website.

 

[nuthatched]

I was window shopping on the Cackle website just now and saw Speckled Egger™ chicks are sold out for 2021 already. Popular much!? Can anyone post pictures of what these chickens look like? They only have a picture of the eggs on the Cackle website.

Speckled eggs are a random genetic thing in all brown layers, they just kept breeding the chickens with that trait until they all had it. The chickens are completely random mixes.

 

[HiEverybirdy]

Speckled eggs are a random genetic thing in all brown layers, they just kept breeding the chickens with that trait until they all had it. The chickens are completely random mixes.

Do you have some? I was just curious if they had similar traits, like hatchery Easter Eggers do.

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

Those don't looks that different from Welsummer eggs. Check out Alchemist Farms site. Their Welsummer line has eggs that are very speckled eggs.

 

[HiEverybirdy]

Those don't looks that different from Welsummer eggs. Check out Alchemist Farms site. Their Welsummer line has eggs that are very speckled eggs.

I'm stoked to add Welsummers to our flock in the next 1-2 years, not only for egg color but for their general temperament, feather style, hardiness, etc.

In this case, I'm wondering how the trademarked Speckled Eggers have panned out for people so far. Even if Cackle says there's no conformity in feather pattern, there must be some stuff in common if they trademarked the type, especially if they, "used selective breeding from several different Cackle Hatchery lines to develop the Speckled Egger." Egg size, chicken size, lay rate, yada.

In my head, they're probably like EEs and OEs in size and variety of patterning but without the beards that can be handed down from blue layers. Like I doubt they're silkie or game type or fully crested or anything like that.

I've never seen them not be sold out, but somebody must've gotten some. Make with the pictures, y'all!

 

[PRchick]

The Cackle website says they have hatching eggs. You may want to give them a try.

https://www.cacklehatchery.com/product/speckled-egger-fertile-hatching-eggs/