Easter Egger club!

[SunnyDawn]

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Ooooh purple eggs would be awesome! Mine are all under 4 months old so I don't know what color eggs I'll get yet. Now I'm gonna cross my fingers and hope for a pink egg layer so I can try to breed for a purple or lavendar egg layer!

Boy that's a good question! It's my understanding that an EE can lay a green, blue, brown, olive or pink egg. So almost all colors come from EEs. An EE is considered a mutt bird but the obvious criteria would be a pea comb, some muff/beard growth and some blue egg laying genes somewhere in it's lineage (Most likely Ameraucana snce Araucanas are so rare and have breeding difficulties). I used to have Brahmas, which also have a pea comb, but a couple of them layed light green eggs so I guess they were really EEs. They looked just like Buff Brahmas though.

If it lays brown eggs and has no muff or beard growth I would guess it was a different mix, not an EE. Also if it's missing the pea comb I would say not an EE.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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He grew up to look like this:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/53152_video_114_0_00_12-12.jpg

He looks a lot like my silver ameraucana roo! (pic on previous page)

 

[EastinChickens]

Oh, how i wish I could get my hands on some more EE eggs! I want to try out my new Little Giant incubator + egg turner...

 

[Alabama ee]

These are about as purple as you can get
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=3288157#p3288157

 

[chics in the sun]

I want a purple egg layer!! If you breed some, I've got dibs on some hatching eggs!!

 

[chicken_china_mom]

Ok, I'm here to join the EE club, lol. I have 8 standard EE's:

Wendell
George
Gina
Jill
Donna
Butter(scotch)
Maya
Hershey

Wendell and George are the only roos, the rest are pullets. They are almost 13 weeks old now. George is my favorite though, he's sooooo sweet. Here are some pics:

George sunbathing:

George laying on the dog:

Jill in the front, Hershey in the back with some of my Bantam Cochins:

This is Wendell. He hatched from a blue egg, but ended up with a straight comb and pink legs. He's the least friendly of all of them too. George is the friendliest, in case you couldn't tell, lol:

This is Gina. She's a little different from the other brown girls in that she has blue muffs. She's pretty sweet natured too:

Here is Butter and Gina relaxing. Butter is the white one. My younger DD named her Butterscotch because she was a cute little yellow chick when she was hatched:

Somewhere I have pictures of Donna. She's beautiful. She has a white head and a gray and black body, but she doesn't like to stand still long enough to get a good picture taken!

 

[chics in the sun]

I've seen a lot of EE's that do lay different colored eggs, but don't have a beard. My little brown EE doesn't look like she has a beard, but she does have slate legs. Not sure what type of comb she has yet. I guess it could be a chicken that lays colored eggs and has at least one of those traits? Hmm......

 

[chicken_china_mom]

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EE's, as I understand it, are suppose to have muffs, green legs, and a pea comb. Notice I say SUPPOSE to have. My Wendell looked no different than the other EE's when he hatched, other than the fact that he had pink legs. But then he started to get a straight comb, and he doesn't have muffs either. EE's are suppose to be the result of several breeds that were combined for their various traits in order to make blue and green egg layers, and it's the one breed that still to this day does not breed consistent. That's why they come in so many different colors. I wish I could get a whole flock of EE's the same color as my Butter, or the same as my George. I love his colors, he looks like a little hawk!

 

[chics in the sun]

I love the fact that they don't breed true - they don't have any standards, that they are just a grab-bag of colors and traits. It seems like the Ameraucana/ Aracona background is consistent in most EE's but the other "parts" are just random. Like the Olive eggers, who have Marans or Welsumer to get the dark eggs. They are all so unique.

 

[Bantimna]

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She looks like she a Little Miss Attitude!