Easter Egger club!

[chickenlver2013]

My two white EE's turned out to be hens, so you never know.

As for the egg color, you won't know that until she (hope hope!) starts laying. 

Yes hope hope! I really want a white Easter Egger hen. I think there is only one boy because the chicks are crossed with my Easter Egger roo and barred rock and they come out sex links. The chicks are solid black are female and the barred chick is the only female.

The chicks I hatched from my red sex link hens turned out to be white with a black stripe going from their head all the way to their tale. And they're girls. No comb coloration except my solid white one. So hopefully it's a girl... Fingers crossed.

 

[kabhyper1]

My white ee hen is red shouldered. I got her at a year old, but I'll bet she was assumed to be a boy for awhile lol.

 

[chickenlver2013]

My white ee hen is red shouldered. I got her at a year old, but I'll bet she was assumed to be a boy for awhile lol.

Lol that's funny. Chicks will trick you sometimes. Even good things come out of surprises sometimes. hopefully it's a girl because I'm getting tired of roosters. I have 6 adult roosters... And my White Easter Eggers father keeps attacking me so that means I'm going to have to get rid of him. I love him to death, but the aggression needs to stop or I'm giving him away.

The other day I caught him and held him and talked to him got a while. I petted him and loved on him. And the cutest thing happened, it's like he actually was listening. I told him, "I've got to show you something, big guy. Look here, look at your babies." He just looked at them like he was admiring them. And the babies looked up at him like they knew who he was and he looked at them like he knew who they were. He makes beautiful babies, but it's hard getting rid of chickens when you get attached to him. I separated him from the hens for a while because he's a cockerel and he is mating with them WAY too much. Their feathers look aweful. I mean AWEFUL. I'm letting him free range and keeping the hens quarenteend for a while until they grow their feathers back on their back. How long do you think that will take? Is he being aggressive because he's a cockerel? He will be a year old in June. Also, he seems to have calmed down a bit since I let him free range. He doesn't pay any attention to me anymore. Hopefully he grows out of the habit.

 

[Katt66]

He's a rooster acting like a rooster.

If you want to keep him you've got to show him who's boss, literally. He can have his girls, but he's got to understand that YOU are not one of them. YOU are dominant "rooster" over him at all times with absolutely no exception.

You've got to pick him up and hold him and carry his big fluffy white butt around with you all over the place like he's a stuffed animal with daggers on it's feet. Seriously. The more you hold him and manhandle him and MAKE him submit to you, the better relationship you will have. YOU always go first. YOU always get top in every interaction between you two. Don't turn your back on him but don't show fear either. At the first sign of him doing anything out of place around you, stand over him, snatch him up, tuck him under your arm and go around the yard holding him for a while again. Some people will go so far as to give their rooster a good solid kick and send him flying. I've never found that necessary though. You'd be amazed just how intimidating it can be to just stand there over a rooster and look him in the eye.

 

[kabhyper1]

He's a rooster acting like a rooster.

If you want to keep him you've got to show him who's boss, literally. He can have his girls, but he's got to understand that YOU are not one of them. YOU are dominant "rooster" over him at all times with absolutely no exception.

You've got to pick him up and hold him and carry his big fluffy white butt around with you all over the place like he's a stuffed animal with daggers on it's feet. Seriously. The more you hold him and manhandle him and MAKE him submit to you, the better relationship you will have. YOU always go first. YOU always get top in every interaction between you two. Don't turn your back on him but don't show fear either. At the first sign of him doing anything out of place around you, stand over him, snatch him up, tuck him under your arm and go around the yard holding him for a while again. Some people will go so far as to give their rooster a good solid kick and send him flying. I've never found that necessary though. You'd be amazed just how intimidating it can be to just stand there over a rooster and look him in the eye.

That's very true. We have 3 big boys in our big bird flock. And 4 silkie roos in our little bird flock. The youngest is Cricket, our EE wyandotte mix. He is learning the lesson the other 2 boys learned last year. If he courted us, or wing danced, he got picked up and carried around. My DH and I both pick him up every day. He now knows we are his superiors. None of our roos are allowed to mount hens in front ouf us either. They get knocked off. They are our hens in our presence. After putting some work into the, and they get out of that juvie hormonal surge, they become very nice respectable boys. They live in the barn right now with our alpacas and the hens, and we have never had a fight or an attack. Teach them young, and they can avoid freezer camp.

Our boys.
Cricket

Gus

Blueberry

Our silkie boys. I'd like to see someone line up four hormonal boys with a bunch of hens right next to them like this lol!
Chance, Booker, Sheldon, Grayson

 

[kabhyper1]

Here is my girl with the red shoulders. She is also Cricket's (above post) mother.

 

[kenzier093]

Here is my girl with the red shoulders. She is also Cricket's (above post) mother.

I have one that looks like her!

 

[Gryphon]

Hmm, it's really close but I'd say that it's her primaries that are red, and not her shoulders. http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt4/manddteach2/004.jpg is an example showing red shoulders, they're towards the front of the wing instead of the back.

 

[chickenlver2013]

He's a rooster acting like a rooster.

If you want to keep him you've got to show him who's boss, literally.  He can have his girls, but he's got to understand that YOU are not one of them.  YOU are dominant "rooster" over him at all times with absolutely no exception.  

You've got to pick him up and hold him and carry his big fluffy white butt around with you all over the place like he's a stuffed animal with daggers on it's feet.  Seriously.  The more you hold him and manhandle him and MAKE him submit to you, the better relationship you will have.    YOU always go first.  YOU always get top in every interaction between you two.  Don't turn your back on him but don't show fear either.  At the first sign of him doing anything out of place around you, stand over him, snatch him up, tuck him under your arm and go around the yard holding him for a while again.  Some people will go so far as to give their rooster a good solid kick and send him flying.  I've never found that necessary though.  You'd be amazed just how intimidating it can be to just stand there over a rooster and look him in the eye.  

Thank you I will try that. If it doesn't work then I don't know because I can't stand the thoughts of killing a chicken.

 

[PrairieChickens]

I had two just like that. Sold one because she was terribly neurotic, and I still have the other. In fact, I've hatched a few of her chicks, but I couldn't tell you which ones they are at this point.