Easter Egger club!

[Chicken5555]

Update on my EE girls getting so beautiful and I plan on getting more once the coop is done and ready





Setesh growing like mad
Easter Egger hen





Sansa keeping up
Easter Egger hen

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Update on my EE girls getting so beautiful and I plan on getting more once the coop is done and ready





Setesh growing like mad
Easter Egger hen





Sansa keeping up
Easter Egger hen

They are so pretty. I look forward to seeing them growing up.

 

[navhopz]

How come this breed isn't official yet they are **** good birds I love mine.

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

How come this breed isn't official yet they are **** good birds I love mine.

They are good birds, but they have too much variation to be "official". Being a accepted standard does not affect the birds, they are very happy/healthy the way they are.
Standardized breeds have came from the Easter Egger.

 

[Chicken5555]

How come this breed isn't official yet they are **** good birds I love mine.

I totally agree that easter eggers are very awesome. One reason they aren't official is that any breed of chicken mixed with any blue layer is considered an easter egger. There are a million and one possible variations in the 'breed'.

Regardless, they are great birds and I can't wait for mine to start laying eggs.

 

[cmccullough1390]

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​They are so pretty. I look forward to seeing them growing up.

Thank you I'm quite proud of my ladies and I'll keep sharing my EEs weekly if you go to https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1120506/newish-and-addicted#post_17292718 it's gonna show the progression of all my chicks week by week

 

[newmarch2014]

Aw, too bad. Your hen is still gorgeous though

Thanks! Your boy is pretty awesome too. Wester (the hen) lays beautiful light blue eggs. Right now she looks like she got caught in a lawnmower, have to figure out if it is a feather picker in the bunch, or if it is just left over from our now gone Brahama rooster that tore a few of them up and I just have to wait for molt.

 

[Chicken5555]

Thanks! Your boy is pretty awesome too. Wester (the hen) lays beautiful light blue eggs. Right now she looks like she got caught in a lawnmower, have to figure out if it is a feather picker in the bunch, or if it is just left over from our now gone Brahama rooster that tore a few of them up and I just have to wait for molt.

Aww, poor Wester. She'll be as good as new soon. Have you thought about separating her for a little while to see if she stops getting worse? That could be one way of finding out if you have a bully in the group.

Today I traded Mr. Duck Feet for a beautiful white crested blue Polish Rooster. I plan on cross breeding some of my various breeds to create a fully crested blue egg layer. Technically they'll just be easter eggers, but they'll be my special brand of easter egger. LOL

 

[FlyWheel]

I lost another one: This time it was Pepper.


There were no holes in or under the fence, no mutilated body, in fact no sign of any struggle at all; she was just lying on her side, completely unmolested, just - dead. That leaves me with one rooster, one cockerel, one hen a-laying and four remaining pullets.

Maybe I should have gotten 12 chicks...

EDIT: Speaking of which, where would be the best place where I could get some 'replacement' EE pullet/chicks? I live about 40 miles North of Columbia, SC. I figure if I started raising them now they might start laying next spring about the same time as the others.

 

[cabinchicky]

I lost another one: This time it was Pepper. There were no holes in or under the fence, no mutilated body, in fact no sign of any struggle at all; she was just lying on her side, completely unmolested, just - dead. That leaves me with one rooster, one cockerel, one hen a-laying and four remaining pullets. Maybe I should have gotten 12 chicks... EDIT: Speaking of which, where would be the best place where I could get some 'replacement' EE pullet/chicks? I live about 40 miles North of Columbia, SC. I figure if I started raising them now they might start laying next spring about the same time as the others.

Was there any sign of anything at all? Blood? I can see you have chain link fence,but I can not tell if it is wrapped with anything else.

 

[newmarch2014]

Aww, poor Wester. She'll be as good as new soon. Have you thought about separating her for a little while to see if she stops getting worse? That could be one way of finding out if you have a bully in the group.

Today I traded Mr. Duck Feet for a beautiful white crested blue Polish Rooster. I plan on cross breeding some of my various breeds to create a fully crested blue egg layer. Technically they'll just be easter eggers, but they'll be my special brand of easter egger. LOL

Nice! As to separating, yeah, was just thinking this weekend that maybe I can take the 3 that are missing feathers and isolate them. It is either the Brahma right above them in pecking order or it is the other EE that is above Wester in the pecking order.....grrrr.