Easter Egger club!

[DevilsDenHen]

So this girl here finally laid me some colored eggs!!!!!!! We have been hunting all week for her nest and found these this morning!!

My phones camera has done a horrible job at catching how blue they are

 

[ChickenLady2014]

I got my first green/blue egg from Snow white today and its a whopper!

Beautiful!

 

[birdman55]

that's a good size egg

 

[hebertchick12]

Our first blue egg!! It is absolutely gorgeous!

 

[RoosterCogburn7]

So this girl here finally laid me some colored eggs!!!!!!! We have been hunting all week for her nest and found these this morning!!

My phones camera has done a horrible job at catching how blue they are

I put fake eggs in my EE's nesting boxes so they would get the idea. It worked. No, hunting for where they may have dumped it.

 

[redrooster99]

I just hatched two EE mixes.

 

[vpatt]

Do I have the chance of a green egg from the offspring of my Dom roo and my olive egger hen?

And does an EE hen have to have a specific look....like the color or muff or beard?. I have a hen who is part Americauna but she does not have any of those characteristics (she does have leggings). She is black and gray. She also does not lay a blue or green egg. Her eggs are light brown and often they have pale lavender splotches

 

[duluthralphie]

I sold 3 dozen eggs to a guy a little over 3 weeks ago. He sent me these pictures today, He says every colored egg hatched 6 brown ones did not. 30 babies is not bad.

These are all mutts. I am sharing the pictures he sent, cause chicks are so cute!





I do not have an EE rooster right now, the last one I had was being mean to the hens, never leaving them alone, so,,,,, so,,,,Well We ate him......

After seeing these I wish I had tried to rehabilitate him, but I really think he just had a rotten personality.







Next time he wants all blue eggs. He did better than I have done hatching. I am impressed with 30 out of 36 eggs.

 

[DRGLENNON]

We'll everyone my rooster shadow was attacked by a dog yeaterday, nothing bad just some missing feathers, luckily.

That's a little different than at my house, my rooster "Oreo" attacked my dog yesterday. They both seem fine though. I'm glad your roo is OK!

 

[ochochicas]

My hens go after the cats! My EE rooster was the best. He died fighting off a predator, but we have three of his cockerels to replace him. I don't know if you can "retrain" a rooster to behave unless it is still very young. We have one now that is abusing the hens. He is still young so I'm hoping he out-grows the phase he is in. If not, he will be someone's dinner. There are lots of other roosters out there looking for homes if you want another!


Vpatt (my quote feature isn't working) - Statistically, if you cross an Olive egger with a brown layer like a Dominique, you have a 50% chance of the offspring laying green eggs. The other half will lay brown eggs. (and half of all those will be cockerels).