Easter Egger club!

[mamatink7]

It depends on the hen's genealogy, weather conditions, disposition, alignment of the stars, any number of things. Of the three one-day-old EEs I got last April one started laying a week ago at 19 weeks, the other two still haven't given me squat (pun intended).

This is my first time with Easter Eggers, and the first time ever that I have had a spring chick lay in her first year, usually I have to wait until the following spring.

Thank You! I figure within the next 5 wk or so? Do their ear lobes start turning red before squatting too? We have 1 turning dark pink right now but they are still flighty and ornery

 

[Sylvester017]

Thank You! I figure within the next 5 wk or so? Do their ear lobes start turning red before squatting too? We have 1 turning dark pink right now but they are still flighty and ornery

Easter Eggers and even our Blue Wheaten Ameraucana are known to be kooky spooky jittery jumpy flighty alert wary cautious personalities. To their credit they do eventually stop running into things and become very sweet pets. They take a long time to mature and our pullet took 7 months before starting to lay. If handled often they come to trust humans to take treats, love to coo and "talk" with you while getting petted, and are the kindest bird toward flockmates often accepting orphaned chicks or injured birds without incident. They are mostly non-combative toward flockmates and would rather flee than fight any challengers. Even when our Amer was chest-bumped by other chickens she ignored them and just jumped over them to avoid conflict. Our girl was not exactly ornery but she did stubbornly refuse to wear a chicken diaper in the house, she took the longest of all our chickens before trusting the new nipple valve waterers, and she never would use the "scary" treadle feeder -- it all goes back to their cautious wary nature and because of this trait ours became the guardan/sentinel of the flock always on the jittery lookout for anything suspicious like an aerial predator that turned out to be a floating mylar balloon, a tumbling plastic trash bag, blowing lawn leaves, flapping tarp, etc etc!!! Weird birds but one of the sweetest ever!

 

[FlyWheel]

Agreed! All my April chicks are getting tamer, even Robin who didn't even like being with her sisters will take treats from y hand now, although tentatively.

 

[thunderbird]

thinking this EE is a cockerel. Thoughts? Also If any of you could maybe determine what color pattern it could turn out to be that would be great. 6ish weeks old

 

[junebuggena]

thinking this EE is a cockerel. Thoughts? Also If any of you could maybe determine what color pattern it could turn out to be that would be great. 6ish weeks old

Looks like a pullet for now.

 

[SIMiller]

. 23 weeks and 2 days and somebody finally laid their first egg. I am so excited

 

[mamatink7]

Easter Eggers and even our Blue Wheaten Ameraucana are known to be kooky spooky jittery jumpy flighty alert wary cautious personalities.  To their credit they do eventually stop running into things and become very sweet pets.  They take a long time to mature and our pullet took 7 months before starting to lay.  If handled often they come to trust humans to take treats, love to coo and "talk" with you while getting petted, and are the kindest bird toward flockmates often accepting orphaned chicks or injured birds without incident.  They are mostly non-combative toward flockmates and would rather flee than fight any challengers.  Even when our Amer was chest-bumped by other chickens she ignored them and just jumped over them to avoid conflict.  Our girl was not exactly ornery but she did stubbornly refuse to wear a chicken diaper in the house, she took the longest of all our chickens before trusting the new nipple valve waterers, and she never would use the "scary" treadle feeder -- it all goes back to their cautious wary nature and because of this trait ours became the guardan/sentinel of the flock always on the jittery lookout for anything suspicious like an aerial predator that turned out to be a floating mylar balloon, a tumbling plastic trash bag, blowing lawn leaves, flapping tarp, etc etc!!!  Weird birds but one of the sweetest ever! 

I cannot wait for that to happen:/
Of course could be how they are with the flock:
definitely not the dominating girls
Only chickens to have ever been pecked
Have big trust issues (don't know how since we've held them as the others and gets treats as the others-even more occasionally) but I've always been working thru this with them to help
Just very frustrating

 

[FlyWheel]

. 23 weeks and 2 days and somebody finally laid their first egg. I am so excited

What a beautiful shade of blue! You've gotta be proud of that one.

 

[Catandherchicks]

. 23 weeks and 2 days and somebody finally laid their first egg. I am so excited

Oooooooo. So pretty! Jealous here.

 

[cmccullough1390]

. 23 weeks and 2 days and somebody finally laid their first egg. I am so excited

What a perfect example of an EE egg I can't wait till my girls start