Easter Egger club!

[haleycausey]

At about 2 months the cockerels peacombs will begin to darken compared to the pale pink of the girls.  See this youtube about how to identify young cockerels from pullets in various breeds including an EE pullet: 

Great video

 

[User395221]

EEs can lay blue, blue-green, greenish, pinkish, tinted, or even white eggs. It's always a surprise as to what each EE will lay.

And brown eggs? Reason I ask is that my EEs are in with my "big girls" now. The big girls lay brown eggs. One of my EEs is light sussex cross, the other australorp. It they aren't blue and they take after the parent, I won't be able to tell the australorp's from the big girls' if she has brown eggs....

anyway, hopefully they'll be a colour I can know are theirs. It's exciting, now that I think they are getting close to starting to lay.

 

[Sylvester017]

And brown eggs? Reason I ask is that my EEs are in with my "big girls" now. The big girls lay brown eggs. One of my EEs is light sussex cross, the other australorp. It they aren't blue and they take after the parent, I won't be able to tell the australorp's from the big girls' if she has brown eggs....

anyway, hopefully they'll be a colour I can know are theirs. It's exciting, now that I think they are getting close to starting to lay.

If she's a EE crossed with a brown egg bird you might get some kind of lightly olive-shaded egg - that would be pretty! After a while you will get to know which hen layed which egg sometimes by the size, the shape, or the depth of color. I have 2 Silkies that lay tinted eggs of the same size and shape but one lays matte while the other lays more glossy so we know who layed which egg.

 

[Renee97038]

My easter egger chicks are out of a Wheaten Ameraucana roo/Cream Legbar hen and White Sapphire hen. Both hens have yellow feet and I see the chicks also have yellow feet, but more of a creamy yellow color. Is that typical? I recall EE from the feed stores having green feet.

 

[junebuggena]

My easter egger chicks are out of a Wheaten Ameraucana roo/Cream Legbar hen and White Sapphire hen. Both hens have yellow feet and I see the chicks also have yellow feet, but more of a creamy yellow color. Is that typical? I recall EE from the feed stores having green feet.

They Wheaten Ameraucana rooster should have produced chicks with white skin, not yellow. The slate 'wash' sometimes takes a few weeks to develop. Ameraucana have white skin with a slate 'wash' on their legs giving them that blueish look. Hatchery Easter Eggers usually have yellow skin with that slate wash, making their legs look green. White skin is dominant over yellow, so if the rooster is pure, all chicks should have white skin.

 

[gander007]

My easter egger chicks are out of a Wheaten Ameraucana roo/Cream Legbar hen and White Sapphire hen. Both hens have yellow feet and I see the chicks also have yellow feet, but more of a creamy yellow color. Is that typical? I recall EE from the feed stores having green feet.

EE's have slate colored shanks

Look at mommas shanks and the chicks

 

[Renee97038]

Both of my hens lay blue eggs and have yellow legs and shanks. Cream Legbar and White Sapphire. My rooster has slate legs/shanks. But the chicks all came out with yellowish. So, you are saying my chicks are not EE?

 

[Renee97038]

Pic of my Wheaten Ameraucana/EE cross rooster and one of his chicks from my cream Legbar hen.

 

[junebuggena]

Both of my hens lay blue eggs and have yellow legs and shanks. Cream Legbar and White Sapphire. My rooster has slate legs/shanks. But the chicks all came out with yellowish. So, you are saying my chicks are not EE?

I think you might be a tad confused. Leg color has nothing to do with egg color. No connection there at all. Pea combs, however, have been proven to be closely linked with the blue egg gene. They are usually inherited together. Usually, but not always.
Your rooster is not a true Ameraucana, but an Easter Egger. His leg color is not his skin color. For that, you need to check the bottoms of his feet.
Whether or not your rooster has a one blue egg gene, or two, or none, won't be known until his female offspring begin to lay.

 

[Renee97038]

Yes, I know my rooster is an EE. Bred from a true blue Wheaten Ameraucana/ EE cross. I hatched him from a blue egg. I was just curious about leg color of the chicks. Both hens lay blue eggs and the rooster came from a blue eggs so...... I will have to see what color the eggs are when these chicks start laying.