Easter Egger club!

[Cluckies]

I have a ee that started laying at 21 weeks she laid for 2 months then has stopped laying she hasn't laid in almost 2 months any suggestions ?

Mine did exactly this same thing. it is because of winter. hopefully she'll start laying any day now.

 

[duluthralphie]

I am going to ask a question, a friend asked in a different thread...

Are there such a thing as a barred EE?

Is there anyway to get colored blue/green eggs from a barred pullet?

Would they need to have green legs? That I doubt as I have a yellow legged EE rooster.

Thanks

 

[ochochicas]

You could certainly get a barred EE. If your EE was a cross of a Barred Rock, Dominique, or Crested Cream Legbar or maybe even a Rhodebar, it could have the barring gene. I had some Legbar/australorp crosses. One of the pulltes looked exactly like a barred rock hen except she had a little crest. Unfortunately she did not survive to lay. Some of my other CCL crosses are also barred but they are not heavily barred like she was.

 

[jerryse]

I am going to ask a question, a friend asked in a different thread...

Are there such a thing as a barred EE?

Is there anyway to get colored blue/green eggs from a barred pullet?

Would they need to have green legs? That I doubt as I have a yellow legged EE rooster.

Thanks

All of these have the barring gene . Technically EE but really projects . Legs can be any color . These lay blue eggs .

 

[Shawneegyrl]

OK, I am disappointed and baffled!!

I hope JerseySE has some thoughts on this.

I have several EEs that lay pretty blue, green blue, olive eggs.
I really wanted some True Ameraucanas and ordered eggs from a breeder.

I got Bantam Wheaten eggs (they were blue) and hatched 3 chicks, a roos and 2 hens.

All of them feathered out as I expected except one hen did not have muffs. I was disappointed but thought at least she is an EE since she did not meet SOP and I would get pretty blue eggs. Well, imagine my shock when she played a very light beige egg!!

So, since I did not even get a blue egg, she was culled with the rooster (I live in the city - no roos anyway).

The last hen was the picture of SOP, slate legs, nice muffs, coloring. Pretty as can be.

I waited a long time for her to lay an egg and guess what!!
Another very light beige egg. I could not believe it.

How can that be?? I thought that blue was dominate and I would at least get a blue egg from both of them (or at least the one that appeared to be SOP).
Gosh my EEs are doing better than the "True Ameraucanas"

 

[jerryse]

OK, I am disappointed and baffled!!

I hope JerseySE has some thoughts on this.

I have several EEs that lay pretty blue, green blue, olive eggs.
I really wanted some True Ameraucanas and ordered eggs from a breeder.

I got Bantam Wheaten eggs (they were blue) and hatched 3 chicks, a roos and 2 hens.

All of them feathered out as I expected except one hen did not have muffs. I was disappointed but thought at least she is an EE since she did not meet SOP and I would get pretty blue eggs. Well, imagine my shock when she played a very light beige egg!!

So, since I did not even get a blue egg, she was culled with the rooster (I live in the city - no roos anyway).

The last hen was the picture of SOP, slate legs, nice muffs, coloring. Pretty as can be.

I waited a long time for her to lay an egg and guess what!!
Another very light beige egg. I could not believe it.

How can that be?? I thought that blue was dominate and I would at least get a blue egg from both of them (or at least the one that appeared to be SOP).
Gosh my EEs are doing better than the "True Ameraucanas"

Your thoughts are correct . This should not be happening in wheaten bantams . One of the oldest varieties in the breed . So someone dropped the ball . This would not be unusual in a new project color but would be rare even then . I would say someone did a outcross and sold some before the genes were stabilized . Then the new owners did not select and just reproduced . My best guess is blue wheaten bantams are scarce and someone was recreating them . So possibly the wheaten were sold off .

 

[GhettoRoo]

Hey people. Whats the weight of EE eggs, and rooster, hens bodyweight? Around what.

 

[ochochicas]

Hey people. Whats the weight of EE eggs, and rooster, hens bodyweight? Around what.

My eggs are 56 - 60 grams. Rooster weighed 6 pounds and the hen weighs 5. The rooster was not full grown though, and he was part legbar which I thick made him a little on the light side. Wonderful boy though - I miss him!

 

[Shawneegyrl]

Your thoughts are correct . This should not be happening in wheaten bantams . One of the oldest varieties in the breed . So someone dropped the ball . This would not be unusual in a new project color but would be rare even then . I would say someone did a outcross and sold some before the genes were stabilized . Then the new owners did not select and just reproduced . My best guess is blue wheaten bantams are scarce and someone was recreating them . So possibly the wheaten were sold off .

Yes, and I did contact the lady who sold me eggs after the first girl layed a beige egg and she was so sorry. She had not had hers long and has since done away with them and contacted others who bought eggs. She is an ethical lady, who takes her breeding program seriously.

 

[jerryse]

Yes, and I did contact the lady who sold me eggs after the first girl layed a beige egg and she was so sorry. She had not had hers long and has since done away with them and contacted others who bought eggs. She is an ethical lady, who takes her breeding program seriously.

That is good . There are easier ways to recreate blue wheaten bantams if that was the goal . The easiest way would be to use blue wheaten large fowl x wheaten bantam . Keep going back to bantam and 3-4 generations you have them . Size is your only issue .