Easter Egger club!

[oletymer]

Thank you everyone for your input....so I just wait till I get my surprises..

 

[shotzy007]

sounds like they got old enough to lay right around the cold weather season.

 

[iwanaplae2]

I'm getting discouraged.... what is a average price to pay for a EE chick?   

I think it depends on where you're getting them from. I got my chicks from mypetchicken.com. I think I paid $3.50 each. But then I requested females only. I ended up with beautiful standard "Auracana" coloring. All 3 started laying at 22wks, and lay beautiful "robins egg" blue. So not a true blue. But definitely more blue than green. While I am fully thrilled with my girls, I think next time I will buy locally. I hope this helps, and you find what you're looking for.
Good luck!

 

[chick rookie]

I think it depends on where you're getting them from. I got my chicks from mypetchicken.com. I think I paid $3.50 each. But then I requested females only. I ended up with beautiful standard "Auracana" coloring. All 3 started laying at 22wks, and lay beautiful "robins egg" blue. So not a true blue. But definitely more blue than green. While I am fully thrilled with my girls, I think next time I will buy locally. I hope this helps, and you find what you're looking for.
Good luck!

WOW am I ever getting RIPPED OFF. Had 2 differant places say they want 20.00 eh for day old chicks!!!!

I'm going to try mypetchicken.com ..... thanks for the web site and the price info. cant belive they want 20.00 eh. thats just crazy.

 

[jerryse]

WOW am I ever getting RIPPED OFF. Had 2 differant places say they want 20.00 eh for day old chicks!!!!

I'm going to try mypetchicken.com ..... thanks for the web site and the price info. cant belive they want 20.00 eh. thats just crazy.

If you have a local farm store check with them. TSC has chicks days in the spring. They usually have EE. They may be in a assorted group but easy to identify for most. Do not depend on employees to know. I have sorted through the assortments for OE games and silkies. The employee had no idea but did take some pointers on how to tell. They are usually in the $3-$4 range. Farm king and Farm and Fleet you can order.

 

[iwanaplae2]

WOW am I ever getting RIPPED OFF.  Had 2 differant places say they want 20.00 eh for day old chicks!!!!   I'm going to try mypetchicken.com ..... thanks for the web site and the price info. cant belive they want 20.00 eh. thats just crazy. 

Holy cow! I could see paying $20 for a pullet. But not for day olds!

 

[iwanaplae2]

I took this pic in the house. But the lighting just doesn't show the "blue" enough. The brown one is from my Red Star just to show size.

This one I just took outside when I went out for our second gathering of the day. The blue is from one of my EE's, and the pink is from my Barred Rock.

My fridge looks like Easter! Again, the color is off because of the lighting. This is 7 days worth of eggs! We write the dates on them as we gather, so we are sure to use the older ones first. Pictured: large rusty brown from my Red Star, medium pink from my BR, and the rest are medium various shades of blue and blue-green from my 3 EE's

 

[chixmaidservice]

I am in the club w/ a beautiful black easter egger pullet. I hope to get more this spring. I have a small 5 girl group. 2 hens (red stars) were raised by me from TSC chicks, 3 (ee, br, and a pr) were added after coon attacks decimated my original 6 red stars to 2. My ee and her 2 friends came off Craigslist and are not friendly due to how they were raised. (local bubba -type got 900 chicks w/ his tax return... ahhhh the stupidity) Am impatiently waiting for spring!!

 

[Naturegirl44]

We have 2 EE's!! They are not so friendly though. All our chickens were rescued from nasty homes. We 16. The first 10 had 1 EE in the group and then we rescued 6 more and found out that the EE in that group was sister to one we had already rescued! so they have been reunited. Since we didn't raise them ourselves, they will walk over my feet while feeding but none will allow me to pet or pick them up, especially our EE's. They are the most skittish of the bunch...and some what bossy!! lol


Since they are amerucana's we called them Yankee and Rebel This is Rebel a few days after we brought them home.



They were both so scraggly and missing so many feathers when we got them. Both in really rough shape but now they are all filled out and healthy and we have a hard time telling them apart lol Sometimes the only way we can tell is when El Diablo, our Roo, rapes Yankee lol she is his favourite!!

 

[iwanaplae2]

All my girls are real friendly. But we have hand raised them from 3 days old (except our Red Star who we bought at 16wks). From chicks on we made sure they were constantly handled. Once the girls were moved out to the coop/run they did get a little skidish. We'd have to corral them into a corner to pick them up. But once it our arms, they didn't struggle. Now that they are all laying, all I have to do is reach for them and they squat right down, and I can pick them right up!