Easter Egger club!

[bbhorsefly]

I think he is using a black Ameraucana over California Grey hens. So far the babies have all grown Ameraucana phenotype and grown to be blue egg layers. (A couple chicks recently hatched out brown instead of black, so don't know if that will happen with them.) I think most hatcheries use EE to breed to other EE or other breeds and seldom back cross to the original Ameraucanas,
legbars or Aurauconas--thus more variety.  Dennis is actually breeding a black sexlink that lays blue eggs--which is pretty cool.

That's great! The rooster I kept turned out to be a silver Ameraucana and not just an "Easter Egger" so I hope to hatch some eggs from my blue egg layers for hopefully more blue layers. Yes, I have to change my original statement from "only one blue egg layer" because a pullet we always thought was only occasionally laying an olive colored egg, actually laid her first egg ever today, and it was blue! Haha

Our two "blue" eggs:

What they look like with a green and pale pink:

So Sunny went and made a liar out of me. Haha and I gave credit where credit was due back to our,apparently only, Olive Egger. Bumped her percentage up to 80%!

 

[User395221]

Those blue eggs look bigger than I'd imagine easter eggers laid. Maybe it's just the photo, but they look really big.

 

[Lelanae]

That's great! The rooster I kept turned out to be a silver Ameraucana and not just an "Easter Egger" so I hope to hatch some eggs from my blue egg layers for hopefully more blue layers. Yes, I have to change my original statement from "only one blue egg layer" because a pullet we always thought was only occasionally laying an olive colored egg, actually laid her first egg ever today, and it was blue! Haha



Our two "blue" eggs:


What they look like with a green and pale pink:


So Sunny went and made a liar out of me. Haha and I gave credit where credit was due back to our,apparently only, Olive Egger. Bumped her percentage up to 80%!
Beautiful! I wish the EE pink eggs were actually pink-ier. I am hoping my "Pennsylvania Blacks" turn out to be frequent and non broody layers--most of my flock are breeds that are often broody. My babies are TINY--Dennis said they hatched from pullet eggs!

 

[gander007]

One of my EE roo's dust bathing

One of the ladys started the hole but he dug it out fast

I just could not catch the dust he was a tossing but he is hilarious to watch yep chicken TV

Some times I wish I had a recorder just to film these feathered dinosaurs

gander 007

 

[iamfivewire]

No dustbaths for our chickies here - high 20s & nearly a foot of snow :-(

 

[Cadbury22]

One of my EE roo's d One of the ladys started the hole but he dug it out fast I just could not catch the dust he was a tossing but he is hilarious to watch yep chicken TV Some times I wish I had a recorder just to film these feathered dinosaurs gander 007

I love those pictures!! I remember when I first saw chickens take dust baths. I thought it was the funniest thing ever! I still get a kick out of it!

 

[Amiti]

This is Yzma. She is awesome! Started keeping track of how often my girls lay. She is the winner with 8 jumbo eggs n 9 days!!!!

 

[Amiti]

BTW... I don't have an egg scale, but a large egg carton won't close properly with her eggs n it.

 

[User395221]

My little girls are little, I can't imagine they'll lay big eggs when they start laying.

 

[cabinchicky]

BTW... I don't have an egg scale, but a large egg carton won't close properly with her eggs n it.

Wait till they barely fit jumbo cartons. Yes it happens.