Easter Egger club!

[gander007]

Okay here are some photos of my easter egger! Is olive a hen or rooster?

Looks like a young pullet

 

[haleycausey]

Looks like a young pullet

You think so most people are saying rooster..

 

[haleycausey]

If your bird hasn't started to lay eggs yet her peacomb should be a pale pink.  The cockerels will have a deeper color peacomb earlier than the girls.  My avatar is 5-months-old and you can see her peacomb is very pale still.  She didn't start laying until she was 7-months-old at which time her comb turned darker just before laying.  When ours takes a break from laying sometimes for 6 months, her comb will go pale again.

Mine is only 5 weeks old

 

[sunshynertc]

I have a mixed backyard flock of 10 hens and my white Easter Egger Hen is the protector of the flock- I have 2 EE, the other two are a wheaten color. The white EE is the loudest. In one of the recent storms two of my neighbors trees fell into our yard and broke the common fence between our yards. My Easter Egger made so much noise to that I had to go into the yard to see why she was so noisy. Because she alerted me I could protect the flock from the neighbors dogs. Now I do not mind that she is the "Alert hen."

 

[gander007]

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Maybe so but I have two young ladys with the same coloring as youngsters I was thinking roo's also but both of them are producing eggs now so until I see some saddle feathers I will keep my original post of pullet

I could ne mistaken but in my experience her coloring says pullet ...

 

[haleycausey]

Maybe so but I have two young ladys with the same coloring as youngsters I was thinking roo's also but both of them are producing eggs now so until I see some saddle feathers I will keep my original post of pullet :cd



I could ne mistaken but in my experience her coloring says pullet ...   

Well i wont be complaining i hope it is a hen..

 

[brysonjohnson]

I love my Easter eggers, I have two, one light ones named Murica ( I bought it as an Americana but it wasn't) and a dark one named Aunt Jamima. Two of the calmest birds in my flock

 

[Sylvester017]

Mine is only 5 weeks old

At about 2 months the cockerels peacombs will begin to darken compared to the pale pink of the girls. See this youtube about how to identify young cockerels from pullets in various breeds including an EE pullet:

 

[User395221]

I'm expecting my young EEs to start laying soon. If they don't produce blue eggs, is the egg colour just the colour of their non-araucana parent?

 

[Sylvester017]

I'm expecting my young EEs to start laying soon. If they don't produce blue eggs, is the egg colour just the colour of their non-araucana parent?

EEs can lay blue, blue-green, greenish, pinkish, tinted, or even white eggs. It's always a surprise as to what each EE will lay.