Easter Egger club!

[TheBeardie]

This is my newly hatched EE / Dominique chick
The yellow one is the EE.

I have seven other chicks hatching and one is another EE /Dominique mix.

I have a question, my EE doesn't lay colored eggs. Can her offspring possibly lay colored eggs?

 

[birdman55]

beautiful birds everyone

 

[ChickyChickens]

beautiful birds everyone

 

[ABlovinmychicks]

so I guess my new girls I got from a farmer yesterday were not "true" to the breeds he said but it's ok b/c we just wanted some nice personality hens for our small backyard coop & my research showed that ameraucunas & Orpingtons were friendly & docile!
We were told by the farmer they were all hatched Aug-Sept.2014 & this girl was a Buff Orpington but you guys here said she's more likely an ameraucuna/Brahma. Her name is Sunshine & she is the biggest girl in our coop.

This is Cream (Left) & Speckles (my fav. looking girl) they are both pretty close in size Cream does have a bit more slender & longer neck though.

the dark girl in the front is Luna & she is 2nd biggest

this is Speckles by herself

Cream & Luna's back, I love the blue & black of Luna

& this little one is Fluffy (she is for sure the smallest!)

cuddling in the corner (or maybe just hiding the farthest from me, I did just bring them home yesterday!)


Is there a way to guess what color eggs these girls will lay?

 

[FVRM]

This is my newly hatched EE / Dominique chick
The yellow one is the EE.

I have seven other chicks hatching and one is another EE /Dominique mix.

I have a question, my EE doesn't lay colored eggs. Can her offspring possibly lay colored eggs?

It's very unlikely they will lay colored eggs if the mom or dad do not.

 

[jerryse]

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Blue egg gene is dominant so your hen does not carry it . If bred to a rooster that carries 1 or 2 copies of the gene then yes .

 

[redrooster99]

Can sister pullets lay different colored eggs?

 

[birdman55]

ive noticed that the darker color legs if they are pure and not mixed will lay a darker blueish greenish eggs...then the lighter colored legged bird..
see the differences in the egg


the ones that look olive I guess you could call it is from the birds with the darker green legs..and they are noticeably darker then the lighter colored legs ill see if I can get pics of what I mean

 

[mymilliefleur]

Can sister pullets lay different colored eggs?

Yes they can. I crossed a light brown egg laying EE to my former EE rooster and about 75% of the offspring laid brown eggs and 25% laid blue/green eggs.

 

[redrooster99]

Yes they can. I crossed a light brown egg laying EE to my former EE rooster and about 75% of the offspring laid brown eggs and 25% laid blue/green eggs.

I crossed a red sex-link roo with a blue egg laying EE. And two hatched out both hens. One layed olive eggs, and one supposedly lays blue eggs but I think the owner is thinking blue green.