Easter Egger club!

[Sylvester017]

I love Easter Eggers!My Easter eggers name is Cadbury

Do you have photos of her as a chick by any chance?

 

[Cadbury22]

Thanks!!!!!

 

[Cadbury22]

Not the best quality! She is the one with the stripes around her eye.

 

[Lelanae]

My son has been begging for a year for an Easter Egger--he thinks the muffs and beards are insanely cute! I thought of getting an Ameraucana to guarantee those muffs and blue eggs and found it was insanely difficult to find a pullet nearby or a small quantity of sexed chicks. Then I found on Pennsylvanians Unite,

a breeder of "Pennsylvania Blacks"--sexed linked blue egg layers! His name is Denis and he is SO nice. We came home with two. This is Hermione. LOVE the fact we know she will have blue eggs and a muff!

 

[User395221]

How cute (kid and chick). My little Grace has the side whiskers, but Marcy doesn't really have it.

 

[bbhorsefly]

My son has been begging for a year for an Easter Egger--he thinks the muffs and beards are insanely cute! I thought of getting an Ameraucana to guarantee those muffs and blue eggs and found it was insanely difficult to find a pullet nearby or a small quantity of sexed chicks. Then I found on Pennsylvanians Unite, a breeder of "Pennsylvania Blacks"--sexed linked blue egg layers! His name is Denis and he is SO nice. We came home with two. This is Hermione. LOVE the fact we know she will have blue eggs and a muff!

Very sweet. Our kids love their Easter Eggers! I can't really see the chicks cheeks in the pic, but how do you "know she will have blue eggs and a muff"? Is it her breeding? What did they use? I only have one EE that lays an egg that looks light blue in certain light. The rest are obvious different shades of green. One of my ee's even has the top knot, comb, and coloring of a blue egg laying Cream Legbar, but she lays a pinkish white egg. Easter Eggers by definition are unpredictable so I'm just curious the genetics of your little one. I really want a true blue egg.

 

[Lelanae]

Very sweet. Our kids love their Easter Eggers! I can't really see the chicks cheeks in the pic, but how do you "know she will have blue eggs and a muff"? Is it her breeding? What did they use? I only have one EE that lays an egg that looks light blue in certain light. The rest are obvious different shades of green. One of my ee's even has the top knot, comb, and coloring of a blue egg laying Cream Legbar, but she lays a pinkish white egg. Easter Eggers by definition are unpredictable so I'm just curious the genetics of your little one. I really want a true blue egg.

I think he is using a black Ameraucana over California Grey hens. So far the babies have all grown Ameraucana phenotype and grown to be blue egg layers. (A couple chicks recently hatched out brown instead of black, so don't know if that will happen with them.) I think most hatcheries use EE to breed to other EE or other breeds and seldom back cross to the original Ameraucanas,
legbars or Aurauconas--thus more variety. Dennis is actually breeding a black sexlink that lays blue eggs--which is pretty cool.

 

[jerryse]

My auto sexing EE . Chicks hatched today . Can be sexed at hatch . Top 2 chicks male bottom 3 female . I have eggs on the 24 hour auction thread if anyone is interested .

 

[lizardandchicks]

My Easter egger layed her first egg today! It is a pretty green color.

 

[User395221]

My Easter egger layed her first egg today! It is a pretty green color.

How exciting, congratulations to you and your clever little lady.