Easter Eggers from Ideal?

[Ajp23]

That's funny. I have 3 Easter Eggers from Ideal and they're all completely different looking. Here's the one that looked similar to yours when she was a chick:
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And here are my other 2:
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I love the last gal - she looks so much like my favorite chicken we lost last summer. I’ll try to find a picture, they could be twins

 

[WingItRanch]

I wonder if Ideal has changed the breeds they use. I bought mine in September 2024. When did you get yours?

Very possibly! I got mine last spring. They will be one year old next week. They lay blue and mint green eggs! Large and often!

 

[Labsandchickens8]

Very possibly! I got mine last spring. They will be one year old next week. They lay blue and mint green eggs! Large and often!

So glad to know the eggs will be large eventually!

 

[Ajp23]

This is an awful picture but she was NOT in the mood for a photo shoot . Both of mine look exactly like this so far, only difference being one has yellow legs and one has a more slate/mixed leg color. It’s interesting that they have almost a blurred barring or spotting on the feathers.

 

[Labsandchickens8]

This is an awful picture but she was NOT in the mood for a photo shoot . Both of mine look exactly like this so far, only difference being one has yellow legs and one has a more slate/mixed leg color. It’s interesting that they have almost a blurred barring or spotting on the feathers. View attachment 4086383

So I have an update on my Easter Eggers from Ideal. 4 of the 7 chicks that I got from them looked similar. I knew one was a Welsummer. Two looked a lot alike, so I assumed they were the Easter Eggers (picture of one above) and the one who was a little different was the Olive Egger.
Then I saw Olivia, my presumed Olive Egger, lay a blue egg. So one of the two almost identical chickens is my Olive Egger and the other is an Easter Egger.
I want to call in sick to work until I watch them all lay an egg so I can solve this once and for all.

Olivia. Former Olive Egger, now Easter Egger anove. And below is of two identical chickens, one of whom lays an olive egg and one who lays blue.
So apparently what they look like has nothing to do with what color egg an Easter Egger lays.

 

[Iluveggers]

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So I have an update on my Easter Eggers from Ideal. 4 of the 7 chicks that I got from them looked similar. I knew one was a Welsummer. Two looked a lot alike, so I assumed they were the Easter Eggers (picture of one above) and the one who was a little different was the Olive Egger.
Then I saw Olivia, my presumed Olive Egger, lay a blue egg. So one of the two almost identical chickens is my Olive Egger and the other is an Easter Egger.
I want to call in sick to work until I watch them all lay an egg so I can solve this once and for all.
View attachment 4086786Olivia. Former Olive Egger, now Easter Egger anove. And below is of two identical chickens, one of whom lays an olive egg and one who lays blue.
So apparently what they look like has nothing to do with what color egg an Easter Egger lays.View attachment 4086788

My Olive Egger from Ideal is identical to my Welsummer, except she has a pea comb. Exactly the same otherwise.

 

[WingItRanch]

I want to call in sick to work until I watch them all lay an egg so I can solve this once and for all

This made me laugh. I called in sick to work the day I got my first ever egg. I was so excited and was convinced that all my others would start laying that day too.

They did not... took another month. I didn't skip any more work days lol

 

[BackyardVillans]

Does anyone have Easter Eggers from ideal poultry? We went to the feed store last week and got two chicks but what I found interesting is that in the Easter egger brooder (all from ideal) they all looked identical! Usually when I’ve seen Easter eggers, they are varied in color.

Makes me interested in their breeding - wondering if anyone can share pictures of their Ideal Eggers either chicks or adults!

I have 2- olive eggers and 1- Easter egger from ideal I bought them from Atwood’s and they all 3 looked so much alike all chipmunk marked and they hatched around 3-9-25 so they are getting big girl feather now and one has muffs/a little beard and I’m assuming that’s the Easter egger the other two one has what looks like tuffs coming in too I’m still pretty confused I’m thinking ideal used auricana’s for one of the parents for the Easter egger and the olive egger since they both need to have the blue egg laying gene I’m not sure

 

[Zenmonkey]

So apparently what they look like has nothing to do with what color egg an Easter Egger lays.

The only correlation bergen chicken color and egg color of which I am aware is ear lobe color. White ear lobes nearly always indicates a white or blue egg, and red ear lobes usually means brown or green eggs. Presumably ear lobe color and the white/brown genes are linked.

 

[Labsandchickens8]

The only correlation bergen chicken color and egg color of which I am aware is ear lobe color. White ear lobes nearly always indicates a white or blue egg, and red ear lobes usually means brown or green eggs. Presumably ear lobe color and the white/brown genes are linked.

Good to know