Easter Egger club!

[User395221]

Well, there you go, thanks. I just picked them because they seemed "nice". I had no clue when I picked them that they were "easter eggers', even though I'd heard the term.


EDIT: These are my girls


The black one (Australorp cross) is called Grace, and the white (light sussex cross) is called Marcy. I have no details about their parentage, I got them from the chook farm.

 

[mymilliefleur]

Those sound like they'll be delightful! Can you post pictures of the parents?

Thanks! I'm excited about how they'll turn out! I don't have photos of the parents ( I really need to post updated flock pics!) The mother looks like a white d'Uccle only with out feathers on her feet, and the father was a silver duck wing colored EE.

is the rooster also a bantam?

The father is technically a LF rooster, but he was on the small side (probably 3-4 Lbs) The chicks all take after their mother and are small. I expect them to be about 1.5 to 2 Lbs when full grown.

 

[Simple-country]

I have 140 chickens which include 10 different breeds. With that being said, I have to say that my faithful EE are the best! That is my happy coop where everyone in there just seems happy and glad that I'm there. They are awesome!!

 

[junebuggena]

My Easter Egger hen is spending a lot of time out in the coop and in the nest boxes. She hasn't laid since September. I can't wait to start seeing her blue eggs again.

 

[Amelia Egghart]

My Easter Egger hen is spending a lot of time out in the coop and in the nest boxes. She hasn't laid since September. I can't wait to start seeing her blue eggs again.

That's what mine was doing about two or three weeks before she started laying again. Best of luck!

 

[junebuggena]

She just laid. First blue egg in months. I almost forgot how pretty those blues look in a carton of brown. Now hopefully the pullets start soon. One was trying out a box this morning, so they should start laying very soon.

 

[CGinJCMO]

Quote: I had a porcelan D'uccle rooster mate with full size EE and produced a large blue feathered-legged rooster. Size wise, he can compete with any other male - you'd never know he has such at tiny father. He is allowed to roam the yard away from the hens so I don't end up with more feathered-legs in the egg laying flock but is too big to be in the bantam pen.

CG

 

[newmarch2014]

She just laid. First blue egg in months. I almost forgot how pretty those blues look in a carton of brown. Now hopefully the pullets start soon. One was trying out a box this morning, so they should start laying very soon.

Junebuggena, everyone is getting hatch crazy around here and I have plenty of extra eggs to let people have some fun with backyard mutts. I have a Light Brahma rooster with a couple EE's. This one lays a pretty green egg

this one lays a light blue egg....

is there any chance that the chicks would be blue/green egg layers in the chicks or just larger mutts?

 

[junebuggena]

Junebuggena, everyone is getting hatch crazy around here and I have plenty of extra eggs to let people have some fun with backyard mutts. I have a Light Brahma rooster with a couple EE's. This one lays a pretty green egg

this one lays a light blue egg....

is there any chance that the chicks would be blue/green egg layers in the chicks or just larger mutts?

You have the potential for green or brown layers with that rooster. Depending on the hens' genes you've got about a 50% chance of getting green egg layers.

 

[newmarch2014]

Thanks, I am a genetic idiot with chickens so wanted to check in.