Easter Eggers' Egg Size?

[steveonCapeCod]

aart,

Thank you for the Welcome. I've been a "lurker" on this site for years. It's my go to site for chicken info.

The RS are about 31 months old. (I'm down to 2 from the original flock of 6. I have lost 4 birds this year. (It's nice having a daughter who's a vet and will do necropsies on the birds. (Egg peritonitis got one of the hens, the other 3 seemed to have lots of nodules on their repro system.)))

The 2 "old girls" have slowed their laying as the days have gotten shorter. I expect a pickup in the spring.

I talked with McMurray re: EEers. They told me that they started in the early 1970s with a flock of colored egg layers (different breeds) and they sell the chicks as "Easter Eggers" because the flock is no one breed.

I do like them very much. Nice personalities, funny antics. They are each very uniquely colored.

 

[aart]

aart,

Thank you for the Welcome. I've been a "lurker" on this site for years. It's my go to site for chicken info.

The RS are about 31 months old. (I'm down to 2 from the original flock of 6. I have lost 4 birds this year. (It's nice having a daughter who's a vet and will do necropsies on the birds. (Egg peritonitis got one of the hens, the other 3 seemed to have lots of nodules on their repro system.)))

The 2 "old girls" have slowed their laying as the days have gotten shorter. I expect a pickup in the spring.

I talked with McMurray re: EEers. They told me that they started in the early 1970s with a flock of colored egg layers (different breeds) and they sell the chicks as "Easter Eggers" because the flock is no one breed.

I do like them very much. Nice personalities, funny antics. They are each very uniquely colored.

Yeah, older birds=bigger eggs.

Curious if you have pics of repro nodules and if she did any path to ID them?
Maybe PM with that info if you have it.

Am very familiar with EE's....I have a bunch of them, crossing with Welsummer cockbird to get 'olive eggs'....and all the hatcheries mis-marketing them as Ameraucana/Araucana is one of my biggest pet peeves.

 

[steveonCapeCod]

aart,

I do have some pics (below). Here's some background:

I did contact the State poultry inspector and asked if she wanted me to send in a bird for necropsy. She asked a couple of questions to determine if there were any chance of avian flu or newcastle. There was no indication so: "bury her". I asked if I could send in pics of the necropsy and she was agreeable to that. The state vets couldn't make a diagnosis with the just the pics. Since it wasn't zoonotic, I wasn't willing to do the path due to the cost.

My daughter who did the necropsy and took the pictures went back to her vet school anatomy book to find some normal pics of chicken anatomy. A 1500 page book - not a single chicken anatomy pic. (She's still not sure whether those nodules are normal or a problem.)

The most common source of meat and protein in the world and there's no pictures in the anatomy book?





Re: the EEs: There seems to be a lot of confusion around them. Even the feed & grain stores thought they were selling Arucanas. When I asked McMurray if they were Arucanas they got very defensive: "No, no, no. They're a mixture of different breeds that lay blue or greenish eggs." Pure Arucanas have various health problems. When my daughter hears "pure" anything with a health problem she mumbles: "Curse of being purebred".

 

[Kasilofchrisn]

I have eight birds total.
3 RIR 3 BR and 2EE's
One of my EE turned into a rooster.
My EE hen is mostly white and my rooster is a beautiful multi colored.
My hen just started laying a month ago but laid medium sized light green eggs.
I really like my EE and will likely always have one in my flock.
Would love to someday have a blue and pink egg layers but what I have will do for now.