Easter Egger chick colors?

[Moesmom12]

Mine did and hatched out 3 of the 4 eggs and she loves her babies dose not care if you mess with them or her. she was laying 1 egg every other day but went broody and quit since they hatched witch is ok

I want to add some color to my egg baskets at some point in time and i have heard many good things about EE's! i hope to have some one day. Thank you for sharing!

 

[junebuggena]

Has anyone ever had any luck with there EE's going broody? I currently have 4 PBR one Roo and three hens. After researching a good bit I've come to fall in love with EE.
Ive come to the conclusion to expand my flock and want to add EE to my current flock. Are they docile? Good layers? Good mothers?

Here's the deal with Easter Eggers, hatchery birds haven't been bred to any sort of standard so they are all over the place. The only sure thing about Easter Eggers, is their unpredictability. Some are great layers, some are poor layers. Some are really broody, some will never go broody. Some are very docile and mellow, some are bossy or flighty. You never know what you are going to get with them.
True Ameraucana, on the other hand, are predictably very docile birds, average layers (3 to 5 a week), and do go broody.

 

[Chkinkeeper7474]

Here are my EE babies at 6/7 weeks old! There colors have come at such a surprise!

The chipmunk became the almost black one and the chocolate colored one became the gold and black one! I never would have guessed!
The little red dusted chick became a pretty wheaten color and the white has started getting some gray on her head! They are so pretty!

Rey and Demelza

Ravenna and Truffles

 

[azygous]

Thanks for posting the different colored EE chicks. I got some new EE chicks a week ago, and chose a couple yellowish ones. I was hoping they would turn into wheatons since I've never had those before.

I love EEs. I've always had very good luck with them having very people friendly temperaments. These present chicks are proving to be extremely docile and non-flighty, too. All my EEs have come from the same source, including the current ones, so chances are goo they'll remain this way.

 

[3riverschick]

Here are my EE babies at 6/7 weeks old! There colors have come at such a surprise!

The chipmunk became the almost black one ( ok, that chick is based on e+ which is wildtype, that's a color which other colors cover easily, like black)
and the chocolate colored one became the gold ( the chocolate colored one {far left} is based on eb Brown. Kinda surprised it turned out more gold than brown)
The little red dusted chick became a pretty wheaten color
( ok, eWh Wheaten based with red modifiers, that makes sense. Hues of color in what should be a solid light yellow colored Wheaten chick give clues to other colors genes or modeifiers which will show up later in the mature feathers as the bird gets older)

Rey and Demelza

Ravenna and Truffles

 

[Blooie]

I really like my EEs and no matter how large or small my future flocks might be, I will always have some!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-easter-eggers-of-oleo-acres

Out of my first batch, the only yellow chick I had turned out to be absolutely gorgeous. She's our Agatha - and she's been broody three times. Once she managed to hatch a single egg (they were shipped eggs and not treated to gently in the mail). He was our little roo named Scout. The second time we set eggs under her, they were Scout's. We hoped they were still fertile - we'd lost him and she didn't go broody until well after he'd died, but we opened a couple and one had that bulleye, so we thought maybe more would. Not to be. The third time we used the Broody Buster.

Agatha as a chick. She was soft yellow with a charcoal smudge down her head and back:


And as a "teenager".



And finally as a Mom.

 

[azygous]

Agatha is simply stunning! My two golden chicks have much more darker markings, so I probably won't end up with a pure Wheaten like her. But it will still be fun to see what I end up getting.

Great tutorial, 3rivers.

 

[theuglychick]

Any egger-sperts wanna take a crack at telling me what color they think this chick will turn out? I have three with varying shades of this color and looks like white coming out on the wing feathers.

 

[junebuggena]

Any egger-sperts wanna take a crack at telling me what color they think this chick will turn out? I have three with varying shades of this color and looks like white coming out on the wing feathers.

Could be Splash, Lavender, or recessive White.

 

[KTsChickens]

Hopper

Chirp with two Rhode Island white chicks

I bought these from the feed store. It said Ameraucana on the sign, but they look like Easter Eggers to me. I can't wait to see what color their eggs will be. What color do you think they'll be when they grow up?