Easter Egger club!

[Chicken5555]

Beautiful chickens. Do the hens and roosters have different colored legs? Just curious.

Thank you!

I love curriosity
All from the first batch have the same dad... a blue Ameraucana.

Red has willow legs.... Mr. Food's legs are very light with black spots.... Duck Feet has yellow legs. His mom is a cornish cross... Golden wing and Filet both have white legs with light feathering. Their mom is a French Blue Splash marans.

I believe the girls all have gray legs. Not sure how that happened.

All of the younger EE's have green legs. They're supposed to all be girls but one looks like it may be a boy.

 

[Chicken5555]

I have a white laced cornish hen, they're different. Here's a better picture

That is a pretty bird. I have a half cornish cross and half ameraucana male. His name is Duck Feet because he was the only yellow legged chick in the batch LOL His chest is laced and he has lots of color on his shoulders and wings.

 

[Catandherchicks]

An EE club, cool do OE count? lol I have 9 EE/OE pullets and 5 EE/OE cockerels that I got as chicks back in March. My friend donated the eggs to the "4-H at school" project and they hatched in a classroom. Back in May, I ordered 5 EE day old pullets (and 5 each leghorns and polish) from Cackle through the efowl.com website. It looks like one is may be a boys though. Oh, well. people aren't perfect. the first five are a few from the older batch, last five are from the second batch.

They're all lovely!

 

[FlyWheel]

So very sorry for your loss. It sounds like a raccoon feeding babies. Until you catch or remove her she will return. Raccoon's have pulled a pullet through my fence and left very very little remains. Welded wire fence with 1x2 inch spaces. She made the mistake to return and was caught. Best advise is to put a skirt 2 ft out from your fence . Use welded wire fence or hardware cloth, attached to the fence side bottom all around and put large rocks or bricks whatever on top of that to hold it down if it would try to go under it. You could also wrap the sides of your fence with smaller spaced fence.Also try to lock your birds in at night in a secure coop. I learned Through hard way to not not them in and i have not done since.Good luck and again so sorry.

I don't think it's a mother 'coon, the pen is made from a pair of bolt together dog kennels, 1.52" chain link. The only hole I could find was a small 3" gap under one corner, giving barely enough space to wedge a fully grown hen under, but not enough to pull completely through, either that or it wasn't strong enough. I patched it with a piece of hardware cloth, but I guess whatever it is must have been smaller than I thought because it came back again a couple of days later and got 1 of my 14 W.O. pullets completely and cleanly out; no remains, no trace of a struggle, not even feathers, there was no sign of any digging. Today I came out and while no more birds were missing my adult rooster's butt was as bare as a newborn baby's, so whatever it was it was successfully fought off. Tuesday I'm getting a roll of 2 foot wide hardware cloth and some cinder block and making a skirt around the entire pen .I also reinforced the patched area (it looked as if something had been scratching in that area this time) hopefully there won't be any more casualties before then. The attacks seem to be coming in two day increments.

Does Tractor Supply have [humane] cage traps? i may look into one of those too.

 

[Chicken5555]

@Catandherchicks Thank you! Easter eggers are awesome

 

[Chicken5555]

@FlyWheel That is terrible!!!!! Have you tried running the wire underground? My husband came up with the idea of digging a 1 foot deep trench all the way around the coop and sinking some rabbit wire straight down in the ground. Also, we dug 4 to 6 inches deep and a foot out from the perimeter and put wire flat on the ground before fold it up along the sides of the coop. Then covered it back up with dirt. We haven't had any break ins at this point, and there are all sorts of predators here.

I hope you catch the culprit!!!

 

[shelbyhopkins92]

This is Eleanor and Frannie Mae. Both my sweet EasterEggers

Frannie is my girl.

 

[smellslikechaos]

That is a pretty bird. I have a half cornish cross and half ameraucana male. His name is Duck Feet because he was the only yellow legged chick in the batch LOL His chest is laced and he has lots of color on his shoulders and wings.

Sounds cute! You should post a picture

 

[shelbyhopkins92]

Yes you should definitely post a picture. He sounds very handsome!

 

[sharon1955]

My Easter Eggers.