Easter Egger club!

[TheBeardie]

Here are some pictures of her getting in the tree a few minutes ago

This is from a few months ago

 

[bronzefarmer]

for got to get pictures of my Americana a few minutes ago but here are some of my other birds

 

[katatonic123]

My EE silkie crosses. The older 2 are with a white silkie roo, the baby is with a buff silkie roo, same momma.

 

[tinkerfairy]

A local feed store not a tractor supply I may have to use hatchery

 

[itstartedwith2]

Here are some pictures of her getting in the tree a few minutes ago

This is from a few months ago

She is very pretty it's so fun to see them discovering all their surroundings

 

[lizardandchicks]

for got to get pictures of my Americana a few minutes ago but here are some of my other birds

What breed is your hen 3 pictures down? I have a mystery hen that looks just like her, and i've been trying to figure out what she is.

 

[redrooster99]

What breed is your hen 3 pictures down? I have a mystery hen that looks just like her, and i've been trying to figure out what she is.

It looks like a black star.

 

[ConPollos]

I'm super excited bc Crackle Hatchery just told me that my EEs from them will produce more baby EEs!

I've ordered 12 EE pullets & 1 EE cockerell due to arrive in late May. I kept seeing posts online that EEs do not breed true, so I thought I'd call Cackle and ask if their line will keep producing more EEs and it will. Of course, by breeding true I don't mean there will be any standardization in the appearance of the chickens or their eggs, just that my EE roo and his girlz' babies will all be EEs. YAY!!!

 

[ConPollos]

Sorry, please delete this double post.

 

[Gryphon]

I'm super excited bc Crackle Hatchery just told me that my EEs from them will produce more baby EEs!

I've ordered 12 EE pullets & 1 EE cockerell due to arrive in late May. I kept seeing posts online that EEs do not breed true, so I thought I'd call Cackle and ask if their line will keep producing more EEs and it will. Of course, by breeding true I don't mean there will be any standardization in the appearance of the chickens or their eggs, just that my EE roo and his girlz' babies will all be EEs. YAY!!!

What is meant by "not breeding true" is that their body type and coloration will probably fluctuate, sometimes wildly, between siblings. If what you're going for is a blue egg layer, then THAT tends to breed "true" because blue eggs are dominant. That means if a hen has only one copy of the blue egg gene, she'll still lay blue eggs. If the other half is for a brown egg gene, then she lays olive eggs (or just a muddy blue, depending on how strong the brown and blue are). This site has some really good simple explanations on what you can expect from your blue egg layers: https://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/gms2-breeding-for-blue-eggs/

The "problem" with the blue egg gene being dominant is that if you cross a hen that has only one copy along with a rooster that has only one copy, then 25% of chicks won't be blue egg layers. 50% will lay/carry blue but be like the parents that if crossed with another 50/50 they will end up with the 1-2-1 pattern of chicks, and another 25% will be "pure" blue egg carriers, in that if they were crossed with a bird without the blue egg gene, all chicks would be carriers.