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It's been too long since I've been here. Life just happens sometimes. So I will reintroduce myself. I have two Easter Eggers laying well for me. One, Penny, lays a gorgeous olive greenish egg and the other, Chica, lays a beautiful light blue egg. Chica was my late bloomer. She got tired of being called a free loader I guess lol. They are not quite a year old now. Penny is on the far left, Pearl is my silver laced Wyandotte, Chica, then Rose is my Red sex link. They all have so much personality!
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kristaschics15 said:
It's been too long since I've been here. Life just happens sometimes. So I will reintroduce myself. I have two Easter Eggers laying well for me. One, Penny, lays a gorgeous olive greenish egg and the other, Chica, lays a beautiful light blue egg. Chica was my late bloomer. She got tired of being called a free loader I guess lol. They are not quite a year old now. Penny is on the far left, Pearl is my silver laced Wyandotte, Chica, then Rose is my Red sex link. They all have so much personality!
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Your ladies are so pretty :) My Penny is the lightest one that's not yellow, can't wait to see their colors when they are grown ;)
 
gander007 said:
Some ee's are just that way and others will jump all over ya it really depends how much time one spends with their little ones ......:)
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I tried and tried to bond with them as chicks with no luck at all. They just ran as soon as I sat with them and huddled in a pile. Meal worms and apples wouldn't even coax them near. My Brahmas and Cochins would crawl all over my lap. I just feel the breed is just too flighty for me while my large fowl are my soft spot. Don't get me wrong, I love em it's just they drive me nuts. Surrounded by them one minute, then they freak out for a cardinal landing close.
 
jerryse said:
Cross them with your calm Brahmas . Should help them . Since you are hatching your own . Brahma have pea combs and are said to have recessive feather leg gene . So they will resemble the EE . Cochin have dominant feather leg gene .
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I have been thinking of them breeding and hope for a bit calmer bird. I have a 50/50 chance though. 3 EE hens to 2 Brahma and 1 Cochin. Thing is the cochin will be a bantam cross, she doesn't like my larger male at all. He must be a butt in her eyes. Can only pray one goes broody soon.
 
cabinchicky said:
then they freak out for a cardinal landing close.
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I have only 2. One is quite "nervy". Yesterday, I was watching the run, and one of the big girls looked at her and she ran off and around, did like Benny Hill. She wasn't even really being seriously chased, she just took off and ran all through everywhere (cue Benny Hill soundtrack). The other girl is quite calm and acts as "mother" to the other. From my (very) limited sample size, they can be very different in chookonality.
 
potato chip said:
I have only 2. One is quite "nervy". Yesterday, I was watching the run, and one of the big girls looked at her and she ran off and around, did like Benny Hill. She wasn't even really being seriously chased, she just took off and ran all through everywhere (cue Benny Hill soundtrack). The other girl is quite calm and acts as "mother" to the other. From my (very) limited sample size, they can be very different in chookonality.
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I have just one Blue Wheaten Ameraucana and she can have all the personalities you described in your two girls. She can be quiet and reclusive and then run from some perceived scare in her mind and then calmly walk up to us for a treat and a pat on her back. Nutsy girl but we love her non-combative non-retaliatory attitude toward other more assertive hen-pecking flockmates.
 

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