Easter Egger club!

[dlamb82]

Ok question for the EE eggsperts on here!

So my chicks that were crossed with my EE and my Wyandotte Roos, are they still considered EEs? I know EEs are mutts but I don’t want to misrepresent selling any of my chickens. If I choose to breed my roo I kept (EE x Wyandotte) to EE hens will the offspring still be considered EEs? Sorry if this is a silly question!

 

[AnnaWolf]

Ok question for the EE eggsperts on here!

So my chicks that were crossed with my EE and my Wyandotte Roos, are they still considered EEs? I know EEs are mutts but I don’t want to misrepresent selling any of my chickens. If I choose to breed my roo I kept (EE x Wyandotte) to EE hens will the offspring still be considered EEs? Sorry if this is a silly question!

I think so. The term EE stands for Easter Egger as in lays colorful eggs. Americauna end Araucana have two genes for laying blue, they can give 1 or 2 or 0 genes to their offspring. Thats The EE you have, but it wont show wich genes it has exept brown eggs 0 genes. So if you want to cross those birds than you will have a chance of blue for 25% or 50%. So their is a chance they wil lay colored eggs, so i considder them Easter Eggers.
Please correct me if i am wrong, i am new to chicken genetics.

 

[sboone]

The chocolate's name is Mocha and the last picture is of Tilly. The rest have yet to be named. 7 days old today

 

[karabeth05]

I love seeing the pictures of all of the beautiful full grown EEs! I have babies right now and can hardly imagine how they'll turn into those, haha. I'm curious, does the coloring as babies tend to give a hint to the coloring as adults? We have 8 altogether, three that have a predominantly "blonde" & striped pattern (top, middle left, bottom right), two gingers (middle right, bottom left), two predominantly black (bottom middle, and just above her), and one with a dark grey/black body, red/brown head, and blonde/grey wings lol (far right, her name is Pipsqueak and she's my bff).

 

[Neggative]

im joining! i love my ees! awsome birds!

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

I love seeing the pictures of all of the beautiful full grown EEs! I have babies right now and can hardly imagine how they'll turn into those, haha. I'm curious, does the coloring as babies tend to give a hint to the coloring as adults? We have 8 altogether, three that have a predominantly "blonde" & striped pattern (top, middle left, bottom right), two redheads (middle right, bottom left), two predominantly black (bottom middle, and just above her), and one with a dark grey/black body, red/brown head, and blonde/grey wings lol (far right, her name is Pipsqueak and she's my bff).

Aren't they sweet!?!

I love the stripey wings

 

[Dottie the Chicken]

This is one of my 7 Easter Eggers, Myrtle.

This is Bitty

This is Georgiana

 

[rascal66]

I love seeing the pictures of all of the beautiful full grown EEs! I have babies right now and can hardly imagine how they'll turn into those, haha. I'm curious, does the coloring as babies tend to give a hint to the coloring as adults? We have 8 altogether, three that have a predominantly "blonde" & striped pattern (top, middle left, bottom right), two redheads (middle right, bottom left), two predominantly black (bottom middle, and just above her), and one with a dark grey/black body, red/brown head, and blonde/grey wings lol (far right, her name is Pipsqueak and she's my bff).

Honestly, that's the fun about Easter Eggers, even as chicks, they can grow to be such different colors! Although, a tip: to tell if there will be blue (if the chick isn't already fully blue/gray) is to check the wings! Even if they are looking chipmunky, the blue on the wings will hint toward blue instead of black. I have some pics though, I had dark gray EE chicks, and they grew up to be buff/blue!

These two little dark ones turned out to be bright and colorful.

 

[karabeth05]

Honestly, that's the fun about Easter Eggers, even as chicks, they can grow to be such different colors! Although, a tip: to tell if there will be blue (if the chick isn't already fully blue/gray) is to check the wings! Even if they are looking chipmunky, the blue on the wings will hint toward blue instead of black. I have some pics though, I had dark gray EE chicks, and they grew up to be buff/blue!

These two little dark ones turned out to be bright and colorful.

Oh wow!! That is fun, and yours are so beautiful! thank you for sharing! I definitely figured my predominantly black ones would stay that way, haha

 

[HappyClucker7]

I just got my first EE's, and I absolutely love them already!

This is Bunny. She is chocolate brown, black, and silvery gray. She is about a week old.

This is Cheeks. She got her name because she is really cheeky, constantly causing some sort of mischief. She is dark brown, chocolate, and a dark beige color.

I'm excited to see how their colors change and to see what color eggs they will lay! They are being raised by my Black Australorp hen, along with two little buff cochin bantam chicks. Bunny loves to jump up onto mom's back, and cheeks likes to snuggle under mom's chest feathers. They are super cute!