Easter Egger club!

[jaymeellis06]

The new girl i picked up today. Hopefully this one will lay me blue or green eggs. My other easter egger started laying a couple weeks ago and lays brown eggs!

 

[mymilliefleur]

The new girl i picked up today. Hopefully this one will lay me blue or green eggs. My other easter egger started laying a couple weeks ago and lays brown eggs!

I have a couple that lay brown eggs as well.

 

[jerryse]

Hahaha

this is me at this point .... hahahaha

Have fun and make your cross . It is really not as complicated as it seems . Whatever you get breed the siblings together and a percentage of those chicks will have the combination you want . It is basic Mendel's law or Punnet square . Which you may not get at this point . Just hatch lots of chicks in the second generation and keep the ones you want .

 

[tillymay78]

No squatting yet, but I think they must be close with combs this red right??? Getting anxious.... They are 24 weeks this Tuesday.

 

[mymilliefleur]

No squatting yet, but I think they must be close with combs this red right??? Getting anxious.... They are 24 weeks this Tuesday.

I would say so. My EE take a while to start laying too, but once they get going they are fantastic layers.

 

[estamets]

No squatting yet, but I think they must be close with combs this red right??? Getting anxious.... They are 24 weeks this Tuesday.

Those combs look close! It's also winter, so they might wait until the days start getting a little longer (yay for the solstice!). My EE started at 31 weeks, and has given us 7 eggs in the 9 days since she started (2 days on, one day off). Not too shabby!

 

[tillymay78]

Okay I lied!!! I went outside today and pet both of the two pictured here and THEY BOTH SQUATTED!!! I'm so eggcited!!! It must be soon!!!

 

[birdman55]

hey everyone...been busy...so im setting thirty eggs tommarow and getting my mealworm colony set up tonight...pretty excited

 

[LesGus5]

hey everyone...been busy...so im setting thirty eggs tommarow and getting my mealworm colony set up tonight...pretty excited

Hi Birdman, Are mealworm colonies easy to maintain? I love giving them to my chickens and have been buying them on amazon 5000 at a time, but I wouldn't mind raising them myself if it isn't too labor or materials intensive... I have 2 toddlers and quite a few pets, so my time is quite limited.

 

[estamets]

Hi Birdman, Are mealworm colonies easy to maintain? I love giving them to my chickens and have been buying them on amazon 5000 at a time, but I wouldn't mind raising them myself if it isn't too labor or materials intensive... I have 2 toddlers and quite a few pets, so my time is quite limited.

They're really easy! A bucket (I use a 15 gallon storage bin), some wheat bran, and a few veggies every few days is all they need. Clean out every few months and you're good to go. You'll save SO MUCH money over buying them all the time. There's a great thread in the forums for tips on raising them, too.