Easter Egger club!

[kenzier093]

I see a pullet.

Really? I thought it would be a cockerel.

 

[Katt66]

Well, I thought I had Ameraucanas, but turns out they are all Easter eggers. Which
is alright, I just love having the chickens around!! Mom is looking already for a rooster so we can breed our 2 older girls, and perhaps sell some babies, not sure yet. We got our First green egg on the 27th, but I wasn't home, so I got a phone picture message of it. But from my phone it looks like a nice green color. Can't wait to get to see some of the others when I get home. I guess I'll show a few pix of my girls:
Louise.

Louise again. I just love her coloring!!

Louise.






Thelma (Blacker) and Louise on the door... They prefer sitting and roosting when the other girls go outside, because they get pecked at.

Thelma and Louise again.

Your Thelma and Louise look just like our Rinn and Benct. Rinn started out solid blue with a rusty orange patch on her head. Benct started out a very dark dark cocoa brown marbled color. Now they look alike except Rinn has a good bit less of the copper color and kept the rusty spot on top of her head.

It's so hard to get pictures of them that do their true colors justice. There is so much pattern and color on them. Every time I look at them I see something a little different.

 

[Jayzandra]

Here's our only hatchery EE this year. I love her/his color. Hatched on St Patty's Day





And one of the ones we hatched from an EE over SLW. Hatched on March 19th.

 

[nab58]

Very pretty!

 

[cabinchicky]

cute!

 

[CGinJCMO]

I ordered 3 "auracauna" chicks from my local feed store....to be delivered the end of April.

Can anyone give me advice on how to pick them out? They're supposedly sexed. Is there something I can look for to rule out Roos? I want pretty birds and colorful eggs. Do darker colored legs mean greener or olive eggs? Should I pick 3 different colors or look for puffy cheeks?

Does anyone have chick to adult pics or know where I can find a chart online?

Thanks!

I chose puffy cheeks, and more colored legs, but that's not what will tell me that when they grow up what shade of blue/green (or even neither color) egg they will give me. I know that I want variety so I've chosen white-ish chicks, creamy/gray-ish chicks, dark and light black chicks, and brown chicks. Even when they look alike with their down colors, they have looked different as adults.
Here's my current assortment: approximately 2 weeks old



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I never had any interest in owning a rooster until I saw an EE roo. They are, in my opinion, the prettiest of all roosters.

I bought this EE as a pullet. It's comb is getting somewhat more red, but it isn't too big. It has pointed hackle feathers and tail feathers and has dark red feathers on it's wings. What do you all think?

Nothing is saying COCKEREL to me yet. I'd still wait and see, but so far I'm leaning pullet.

CG

 

[H Diamond]

So the EE's I got from McMurray are 8 weeks old as of yesterday. I just realized the other day that I have a clean faced one. She doesn't have a fuzzy face! She's really pretty, but I was just surprised as the rest of them do.

 

[cluckcluck3499]

Echo

Titus
These 2 looked almost exactly alike as chicks and at 6 weeks they are so different I love it!

 

[kenzier093]

Echo
Titus
These 2 looked almost exactly alike as chicks and at 6 weeks they are so different I love it!

They look really pretty! Can you get a side shot pic of Titus? His colors that he has look beautiful!

 

[cluckcluck3499]

They look really pretty! Can you get a side shot pic of Titus? His colors that he has look beautiful!

thanks! And he is the prettiest EE I've seen in a while.. As much as I don't want to he might have to be rehomed..