One of my hatchery-sexed 12 week old EE pullets is growing pointy saddle feathers. She is also a lot bigger than my other EE pullet, the same age. I feel like her tail is pullety, but the pointy saddle feathers are throwing me!
Here she is with the other 12 week old EE pullet -
Apologies for the big pictures - I can't seem to get BYC pictures to work today (or yesterday).
Wow. That green egg is so beautiful.Our ugly mutt chicken just laid her 1st egg. It too is ugly! LOL I'm so excited I just had to share.
This pullet hatched from an egg that was stored in the fridge waiting to be cooked for breakfast. While loading up the incubator, my daughter asked to add this particular egg from her fav hen. Surprisingly it hatched after being in the fridge for over 3 days. We named the chick Omelet, & it soon became a favorite. Omelet's dad is an EE that hatched from a pink egg & her mom is a barnyard mix who lays simple brown eggs. Omelet looks nothing like either parent. At times she barely looked like a chicken. (Had no tail for a very long time, odd comb, & no cheeks.) Now she's making olive green eggs. Where did that color come from??? I expected pinkish or brown. The mom must have quite an unusual mix. I included a pic of the green egg next to our pink, brown & blue eggs.
She must have gotten the blue egg gene from her grandfather then. Her color pattern is Black Copper with something diluting the red to gold. Look on the Quetcha thread and you will see several of this color.Our ugly mutt chicken just laid her 1st egg. It too is ugly! LOL I'm so excited I just had to share.
This pullet hatched from an egg that was stored in the fridge waiting to be cooked for breakfast. While loading up the incubator, my daughter asked to add this particular egg from her fav hen. Surprisingly it hatched after being in the fridge for over 3 days. We named the chick Omelet, & it soon became a favorite. Omelet's dad is an EE that hatched from a pink egg & her mom is a barnyard mix who lays simple brown eggs. Omelet looks nothing like either parent. At times she barely looked like a chicken. (Had no tail for a very long time, odd comb, & no cheeks.) Now she's making olive green eggs. Where did that color come from??? I expected pinkish or brown. The mom must have quite an unusual mix. I included a pic of the green egg next to our pink, brown & blue eggs.
Congrats! That is a fabulous egg color! She is a cool looking pullet, too. The mixed ones are so hard to tell when they are at point of lay, she looks like she has a wee bit of wattles, and something akin to a pea comb. I'm amazed that she hatched from a chilled egg... Your daughter made a great choice, those are the olive greenest color eggs I have ever seen.Our ugly mutt chicken just laid her 1st egg. It too is ugly! LOL I'm so excited I just had to share. This pullet hatched from an egg that was stored in the fridge waiting to be cooked for breakfast. While loading up the incubator, my daughter asked to add this particular egg from her fav hen. Surprisingly it hatched after being in the fridge for over 3 days. We named the chick Omelet, & it soon became a favorite. Omelet's dad is an EE that hatched from a pink egg & her mom is a barnyard mix who lays simple brown eggs. Omelet looks nothing like either parent. At times she barely looked like a chicken. (Had no tail for a very long time, odd comb, & no cheeks.) Now she's making olive green eggs. Where did that color come from??? I expected pinkish or brown. The mom must have quite an unusual mix. I included a pic of the green egg next to our pink, brown & blue eggs.
Our ugly mutt chicken just laid her 1st egg. It too is ugly! LOL I'm so excited I just had to share.
This pullet hatched from an egg that was stored in the fridge waiting to be cooked for breakfast. While loading up the incubator, my daughter asked to add this particular egg from her fav hen. Surprisingly it hatched after being in the fridge for over 3 days. We named the chick Omelet, & it soon became a favorite. Omelet's dad is an EE that hatched from a pink egg & her mom is a barnyard mix who lays simple brown eggs. Omelet looks nothing like either parent. At times she barely looked like a chicken. (Had no tail for a very long time, odd comb, & no cheeks.) Now she's making olive green eggs. Where did that color come from??? I expected pinkish or brown. The mom must have quite an unusual mix. I included a pic of the green egg next to our pink, brown & blue eggs.
