Easter Egger club!

[serama mamma]

I'm planning to get some chicks later this month. I can't wait!



Your hens are gorgeous! Where did you get them? That is certainly a rare color, It's especially rare to have 2 that look almost exactly the same.

My grandma hatched them out of her own eggs and has a rooster that is out of that hatch that looks like them. I am so glad on the compliments I have been getting here about my birds. Would you like me to keep updated on them and all my EE's because in my opinion they are all just beautiful.

 

[Cluckcluck1215]

I'm planning to get some chicks later this month. I can't wait!

wow! good for you.i wish that I cold get mine sooner but it's to cold and I wold not want them to die.


Your hens are gorgeous! Where did you get them? That is certainly a rare color, It's especially rare to have 2 that look almost exactly the same.

 

[User395221]

Would you like me to keep updated on them and all my EE's because in my opinion they are all just beautiful.

You're not wrong about that. They are absolutely lovely.

 

[Sylvester017]

My EES are nuts! Flighty as can be. My Cochin and Brahmas that are with them watch them run around in panic mode and you can see the calm ones have a "The heck is wrong with you"look. I want calmer birds while hubby loves the EEs. I hope to hatch some out but I do not plan on having a high count of them again.

Yes, I find the EEs and Ameraucanas both quite jittery and jumpy. I was debating about adding either a green egg-laying EE or another blue egg-laying Ameraucana in the future because I like the egg colors and the sweet temperament of the EEs/Ams -- but I just don't know if I should. Although my current girl is very sweet, a compatible flockmate, and non-combative, she is very noisy, takes long half-year breaks between laying cycles, and digs everywhere - she digs big holes scattering dirt everywhere with those huge toes of hers LOL. The other smaller breeds are less likely to dig other than in their dust-bath box. I keep my sweet Am around because she is easy to handle and pet and good with the other breeds even though she is the largest bird in the group. I love her but just don't know if I want another like her again. All my birds free-range the yard so I don't have to worry about pen issues but even then my klutzy Am accidentally knocked a Silkie off the nestbox ledge because she was moving in her jittery jumpy klutzy way and I had to take the injured Silkie to the vet. My small backyard setup may be too limited to handle this active breed but the EE/Ams are just so darn sweet it's hard not to want a couple of them around!

 

[cgmaster]

Yes, I find the EEs and Ameraucanas both quite jittery and jumpy.  I was debating about adding either a green egg-laying EE or another blue egg-laying Ameraucana in the future because I like the egg colors and the sweet temperament of the EEs/Ams -- but I just don't know if I should.  Although my current girl is very sweet, a compatible flockmate, and non-combative, she is very noisy, takes long half-year breaks between laying cycles, and digs everywhere - she digs big holes scattering dirt everywhere with those huge toes of hers LOL.  The other smaller breeds are less likely to dig other than in their dust-bath box.  I keep my sweet Am around because she is easy to handle and pet and good with the other breeds even though she is the largest bird in the group.  I love her but just don't know if I want another like her again.  All my birds free-range the yard so I don't have to worry about pen issues but even then my klutzy Am accidentally knocked a Silkie off the nestbox ledge because she was moving in her jittery jumpy klutzy way and I had to take the injured Silkie to the vet.  My small backyard setup may be too limited to handle this active breed but the EE/Ams are just so darn sweet it's hard not to want a couple of them around!

I put my blue wheaten ameraucana hen in with my pure wheaten rooster and my am/cornish pullet and that pullet is a bully, definitely got her mom's temperament lol, she does calm down when I'm holding her though my pure bw ameraucana struggles every time I hold her until I let her go

 

[Sylvester017]

I put my blue wheaten ameraucana hen in with my pure wheaten rooster and my am/cornish pullet and that pullet is a bully, definitely got her mom's temperament lol, she does calm down when I'm holding her though my pure bw ameraucana struggles every time I hold her until I let her go

We start practicing the "judge's hold" with all our pullets as soon as we buy them. They don't like to be held/picked up by their reproductive sides (where eggs form) so we trained ourselves and the birds to pick them up in the judge's hold avoiding their sides and they seem calmer that way. The main thing is not touching/holding chickens by their sides.

 

[Amiti]

I have a question for you folks... I'm considering what I want to do should one of my girls go broody. I think I would love to have a pullet from Yzma (my avatar - who lays beautiful extra large green eggs 6-7 days in a row before taking a day off) and my new welsummer cockerel. Do you think it would be a good mix to sell extras of? I also have a couple different colored wyandottes but Yzma has such pretty eggs and the best temperament.

 

[junebuggena]

I have a question for you folks... I'm considering what I want to do should one of my girls go broody. I think I would love to have a pullet from Yzma (my avatar - who lays beautiful extra large green eggs 6-7 days in a row before taking a day off) and my new welsummer cockerel. Do you think it would be a good mix to sell extras of? I also have a couple different colored wyandottes but Yzma has such pretty eggs and the best temperament.

She would produce some beautiful, Welsummer looking chicks that might be Olive Eggers.

 

[jerryse]

Some of today's EE hatch .

 

[Amiti]

She would produce some beautiful, Welsummer looking chicks that might be Olive Eggers.

That's what I thought!