Easter Egger club!

I understand the EE's are more flighty as a breed, it just drives me crazy. I would like to eventually not have them but my Hubby loves em.But i know when my roo passes i will be very saddened, hes so freaking handsome! When we do bird checks for mites and such we get them off the roost at night. Some are use to it and others raise the roof but they get through it. I like them really but I have found I am addicted to LF breeds that are much more mellow.
 
AS A COMPARISON NOTE FOR OTHER EE OWNERS COULD YOU LET US KNOW HOW MANY MONTHS/WEEKS YOUR 2-YR-OLD EE MOLTS LASTED AND THEN HOW MANY MORE WEEKS IT TOOK TO START LAYING AGAIN? THX!

Most of my EE's are quick molters, and are back to laying in just a few weeks, but I have a few that are slower molters, and don't start laying again until spring.
 
have 2.5 yr olds and 1.5 yrs olds who molt and some still in molt. I want to lessen my EE numbers due to egg laying drop but hubby is the issue with that. so a heart to heart is in order while I spend the winter researching other breeds. I could not give you an accurate time frame of molt per bird due to the fact I missed 3 weeks of daily observation.
 
Oh man, I didn't keep track of it except that both of my EE's started moulting around the same time as my other hens and laid about as long (or a bit longer) into it. I'm still waiting for the moult to end, they all started it up at the end of last month. My Light Brahma is the worst looking one of the lot, she looks like someone half plucked a chicken/hedgehog hybrid. :/

I have noticed that my EE's don't particularly like the heat, one moreso than the other will pant quite a bit in hot and humid weather, but it doesn't affect their laying any.
 
In that case someone was being unreasonably snobby. As much as I'd like to say an EE isn't an EE unless it lays some shade of blue egg, has muffs and a beard and has a pea comb, that really isn't the case. As seen in this thread, people have EE's who don't lay blue eggs, without muffs, without beards, hell, without neck feathers! All are still EE's. Same goes for Olive Eggers. OE's are a bit more stringent than EE's, in that I really wouldn't call it an OE unless it actually lays an olive colored egg, since that's in the actual name.
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yeah, 2 of my EE's don't have beards OR muffs and 3 have both! you never know what you'll get with them!
 
Most of my EE's are quick molters, and are back to laying in just a few weeks, but I have a few that are slower molters, and don't start laying again until spring.

Thx for the input. Our Blue Wheaten Amer went into a winter molt but never really started laying again until the following June - layed 3 eggs and stopped when the humid weather kicked in and humid is still going on now.

I'm getting so much varied feedback from owners who have duddy Amers and EEs to owners who have great Amer and EE layers so I'm thinking the 50/50 pro/con feedback on these blue/green egg breeds is turning me off to them. True, some breeds can have an individual that can turn out duddy but I'm getting half the EE owners have decent layers and the other half have poor to non-layers. When my Farmer's Mkt contact said they won't order any more EEs because of poor production and had to send most of them to the freezer at 2 yrs old I wasn't encouraged.

I'd really like to know their sources of the good EE layers from owners on this thread!
 
Oh man, I didn't keep track of it except that both of my EE's started moulting around the same time as my other hens and laid about as long (or a bit longer) into it. I'm still waiting for the moult to end, they all started it up at the end of last month. My Light Brahma is the worst looking one of the lot, she looks like someone half plucked a chicken/hedgehog hybrid.
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I have noticed that my EE's don't particularly like the heat, one moreso than the other will pant quite a bit in hot and humid weather, but it doesn't affect their laying any.

Thx for the feedback! None of my hens have ever gone bald from molting - I mean, you know they're molting because it looks like a pillow exploded in the coop and yard, yet they never exhibit any bare skin - just weird new quill growth. The only time we had bald spots from molting were one White Leg and a Cuckoo Marans which we no longer have.

How old are your EEs?
 
have 2.5 yr olds and 1.5 yrs olds who molt and some still in molt. I want to lessen my EE numbers due to egg laying drop but hubby is the issue with that. so a heart to heart is in order while I spend the winter researching other breeds. I could not give you an accurate time frame of molt per bird due to the fact I missed 3 weeks of daily observation.

Thx for the input! Yep, I'm getting turned off to the blue-gene eggers. Wish my flock weren't such little breeds or I would try a big Black 'Lorp. Owners have consistently given feedback about the gentleness of BA's and consistent good layers. But I can't have big breeds in my little backyard with the smaller Silkies and Breda. I might go with a reliable heritage lighterweight Dominique when ready to add another bird. GL on your new breed hunt as there's got to be better layers than EEs out there!
 

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