Easter Egger club!

[lightchick]

My almost 3 week old Silkie/EE mix.

 

[mymilliefleur]

My almost 3 week old Silkie/EE mix.

Pretty chick! It'll be interesting to see how he/she will look when they are fully grown. By the way, how are the chicks in your avatar doing? I bet they are fully grown by now. Did the lighter one turn out to be a rooster after all?

 

[lightchick]

My almost 3 week old Silkie/EE mix.

Pretty chick! It'll be interesting to see how he/she will look when they are fully grown. By the way, how are the chicks in your avatar doing? I bet they are fully grown by now. Did the lighter one turn out to be a rooster after all?

Yes, the lighter one was a rooster and is actually the father of the chick I just posted pics of! I have the rooster to a farm outside of town asking with the other chick even though she was a pullet. They had a really strong bond and I didn't want to separate them. I'm really hoping this next chick is a pullet! So far'she's' showing nice even patterning in her feathers.

 

[juju7551]

I'd like to see as he/she gets older. Very pretty now, but I bet even prettier as he/she gets older.

 

[morbius18]

Got a bunch of pullet easter eggers babies, one grew out to this guy.

 

[mymilliefleur]

Got a bunch of pullet easter eggers babies, one grew out to this guy.

Handsome boy! EE roosters are so pretty!

 

[morbius18]

I was going to get rid of him, but I'm saving him to cross to some black copper marans. Might as well try to breed an olive egger, lol

 

[newmarch2014]

I only have 1 Easter Egger. I asked for 4 but got Cherry Eggers instead. I had never heard of Cherry Eggers before mine. There was a mistake on my bill and when I went back, I questioned the "Cherry" and said I had asked for "Easter" and the feed store guy said he only had one, so I bought her too. Her name is Esther. She lays beautiful greenish blue eggs. The Cherry Eggers are really good layers with fabulous brown eggs so I am happy with the mistake. They are very sweet and not as jumpy as Esther.

It looks like you got one of this years Doppelganger batch. This is our Wester

 

[valleychicks]

Easter Eggers, we love'em! Can't you tell?

BigBoy EE/Gamefowl Mix

Molly EE/Gamefowl Mix

Doodle Bob EE/Gamefowl Mix

Genie EE/Gamefowl Mix

Adele EE 1st Generation

Bowie Silkie/EE Mix She is the chick of Molly and one of our Silkie Roosters. She has one eye that looks like a Gamefowl eye and the other looks like a Silkie eye.

 

[chick rookie]

One of our EE's has started laying and we are so excited with her pale blueish green egg!
She is 22 weeks old. Picture doesn't do it justice.

I will never outgrow the excitement of a new egg, love the colors.

How fun that you can raise chicks - we don't have enough room. Silkies are certainly little troopers. I got them as pets, my DH fell in love w/them, and we were surprised at the size of their eggs for a bantam breed. Now my DH always wants Silkies in our backyard. They are a broody bunch but I'm so used to it we just let them brood their empty nest to give their bodies a rest from being such good egg layers. Even at 3 yrs old our Silkie will lay 3 to 4 eggs a week. The 4-yr-old Silkie only lays a couple dozen every Spring and then stops until the following Spring - after re-homing all the bully single-comb dual purpose breeds she has become the alpha hen - she earned the right after taking abuse from all the previous large fowl bully breeds - yet she remains a sweet easy-going girl. She doesn't terrorize the flock the way large fowl alphas do yet her flockmates will subtly be submissive toward her. It tickles me to see a little squirt be the alpha hen.

We have a patio light we leave on for both security and to deter night critters so our girls always have light. But no matter, artificial light or no, their bodies know when it's time to go to roost and the artificial light makes no difference to them. In fact we have less daylight hours now that it's Fall but my little Silkie started laying anyway. Can't re-program those littles - they do things on their own schedule!

I love the little fluffy butts!!!

Will always have them. My Silkies were laying better then the LF layers of few weeks ago. but everyone is bck on track now, they were molting. I just took eggs away from my white hen yesterday she was trying to sit, just too late in the year. I tried to exsplain that to her but she still balled me out... lol

it was really funny.

Got a bunch of pullet easter eggers babies, one grew out to this guy.

Happens to me all the time.