Easter Egger club!

[DaQatz]

Your chicks are so cute! You will have to keep us updated as they grow up. It will be interesting to see what they look like once they feather in.

They are feathered in.

Partridge chick in the front.

Partridge chick in the back

Chipmunk facing the camera.

Chipmunk with back to the camera. (Good thing I wanted 1 roo)

Short tailed black chick.

Nearly rumpless black chick.

 

[lizardandchicks]

Ah. They are cute. I like their colorings.

 

[rjdemille]

This is my girl plush

 

[rjdemille]

My other girl aurora

 

[turtlelady627]

The black bird being referred to as an EE, looks exactly like my Black Sex Links.



quote name="duluthralphie" url="/t/361185/easter-egger-club/5070#post_14602099"]I don't have any copper marans. The hatchery I bought her from does not even handle them. However, I went back to the hatchery website and found a "Asian Blue"  I was not suppose to get any of them in my package, but she sure well could be one of them.

I was not suppose to get an EE in my package either, but I did. 

What I did was order them through a local feed mill from hoover hatchery, I did not have to pay postage then. However, they take every ones orders  and  make one large order out of it. Then when the birds are delivered they sort them out for each person. I will not do this again, because you do not get any "extra" chicks they keep them and sell them, and you are not even sure you are getting what you ordered.

Point in case, this bird I should not have gotten. I am not an expert on breeds by any means and if you say she is not an EE, I am not going to disagree.  I just assumed she was an EE, as I only have one of her and I got a lot of EE's.




http://hoovershatchery.com/baby-chicks/brown-egg-layers/asian-blue-straight-run.html


This is the package I ordered.
http://hoovershatchery.com/baby-chicks/brown-egg-layers/assorted-heavy-brown-egg-layers.html
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[richardwhite]

Anyone want to put a sex guess on this little one lol? Im feeling a little roo in the making. Just about 2 weeks maybe 1 and 1/2? But such a cool little one will be the first chicken with feathered legs for me. The breeder said it was americauna/ faverolle. Aka favracauna? Same as my other two i picked up but slightly older 4 1/2 weeks. Im addicted. Lol

 

[ochochicas]

It looks like a boy to me, too. Usually my lighter ones end up being male.

 

[DaQatz]

Still very young for guess the age. But males due tend to me lighter color, and barring are more likely to be male. EE's are all mutts so makes it harder to judge without knowing who their parents were.

 

[ConPollos]

It looks like a boy to me, too.  Usually my lighter ones end up being male.  

I have a lot of light girls. I got 13 EEs from Cackle that were shipped on May 27th, including one boy, who is white with a lavender or blue gray head; but 5 of my girls are light-colored white or cream with some peach or apricot, and some of those have gray heads. On two of them the orangey color is barred on their wings.

A couple are black with an orange cape. I had two that were blue with an orange cape until the bluest one suddenly died on a day that I noticed they weren't as active as usual. I'm so sad because she was my friendliest one and very special to me.

Now they're all on Corid for coccidiosis and are doing very well. If only I'd known to start the Corid a day earlier when I noticed my blue girl made a solid poop with a little water around it. She seemed so active and cheerful that I thought the poop was in the normal range based on pics I'd seen of poops. The next day they weren't as active, but I thought it was the heat, and she died. The next morning I found five or six of their roosting poops were tinged with blood so I bought the medicine.

I'm still heartbroken about my blue and orange beauty, and I can't bring her back, but I would love to have a few more that color. I'm wondering if I call Cackle and describe the color if I can eventually order six more blue and orange ones.

 

[cabinchicky]

I have all lighter colored girls and my roo was dark as could be since we got them. In my time with having EES I hold back on sex determination by color since my Fester was a brown chick then turned into a handsome black roo.