Easter Egger club!

summerb123 · Dec 28, 2016

Amelia Egghart · Dec 28, 2016

Oh he's GORGEOUS. don't tell my roo I said that! His FACE! That little punk tuft he's got going and that massive beard! LOVE him. You gotta hatch some babies from him!

2hnznroo · Dec 28, 2016

Amelia, hoping for colored eggs.

. He's an OE.

Amelia Egghart · Dec 28, 2016

2hnznroo said:
Amelia, hoping for colored eggs.

. He's an OE.

I'm in love. Hahaha he's got more attitude than Cruella D'Ville!

knwisdom · Dec 29, 2016

Its my first year with chickens and my chickens first year with snow and they are not really loving it. But...my EE are by far the most comfortable in the snow. We finally got a warm day, up in the 30s and I took the girls for a walk out to the drive way. They were all happily trotting behind me and had a nice little adventure out of the frozen garden area. They had a staring contest with the deer and a wild rabbit and then after a bit I had them all follow me back because I was getting cold.

My sweetest EE, Ginger, loves to stretch her wings and decided to fly back to the garden but she really has not mastered directional changes so she landed in snow 3ft deep about 8 ft off the pathway. By this time the snow had kind of crusted over a bit so she didn't sink but she did not like landing there and was not about to try to move. I tried to coax her to walk to me, uh uh! I tried to coax he to fly, uh, uh. She was pretty funny. I would talk to her and start walking back to the garden and she would start to put her wings out and squat a bit and then...nothing. After several false starts she finally flew back to the walkway quite proud of herself. I warmed up her feet and took her back to the garden.

CoopintheWoods · Dec 29, 2016

I have a wonderful EE named Bumble (she's the one in my avatar pic). I just wondered at what age I could expect her to lay?

junebuggena · Dec 29, 2016

CoopintheWoods said:
I have a wonderful EE named Bumble (she's the one in my avatar pic). I just wondered at what age I could expect her to lay?

If kept on a higher protein feed, and not switched to layer too soon, you can expect eggs between 20 and 28 weeks of age. I've never had one start later than that.

Sylvester017 · Dec 29, 2016

knwisdom said:
Its my first year with chickens and my chickens first year with snow and they are not really loving it. But...my EE are by far the most comfortable in the snow. We finally got a warm day, up in the 30s and I took the girls for a walk out to the drive way. They were all happily trotting behind me and had a nice little adventure out of the frozen garden area. They had a staring contest with the deer and a wild rabbit and then after a bit I had them all follow me back because I was getting cold.

My sweetest EE, Ginger, loves to stretch her wings and decided to fly back to the garden but she really has not mastered directional changes so she landed in snow 3ft deep about 8 ft off the pathway. By this time the snow had kind of crusted over a bit so she didn't sink but she did not like landing there and was not about to try to move. I tried to coax her to walk to me, uh uh! I tried to coax he to fly, uh, uh. She was pretty funny. I would talk to her and start walking back to the garden and she would start to put her wings out and squat a bit and then...nothing. After several false starts she finally flew back to the walkway quite proud of herself. I warmed up her feet and took her back to the garden.

EEs (and Ameraucana) are peculiar in that they do things in their own time in their own way. Not really stubborn per se but it takes them a cautious while to figure out what they want to do. Or else the opposite -- they'll panic and keep running/flying until they bump into something that stops them. Sweet and funny birds.