First Eggs!!

[naf_appaz]

I got my first egg from one of my 3 young (18 weeks) easter eggers today, on the small side but always cool when you find the first one and it was in the nest box!...I read on here that a lot of people get blue eggs from them, I have had a several dozen of these girls over the years and always have got an olive green shade to the eggs never had blue, I may get a few cream legbars next spring to add some color variety...Is it common to get blue from easter eggers? These 3 I got at TSC they call them ameraucaunas but quite sure there EE's....do true ameraucaunas lay blue or olive?

 

[Leighe]

I got my first egg from one of my 3 young (18 weeks) easter eggers today, on the small side but always cool when you find the first one and it was in the nest box!...I read on here that a lot of people get blue eggs from them, I have had a several dozen of these girls over the years and always have got an olive green shade to the eggs never had blue, I may get a few cream legbars next spring to add some color variety...Is it common to get blue from easter eggers? These 3 I got at TSC they call them ameraucaunas but quite sure there EE's....do true ameraucaunas lay blue or olive?

Post pics and someone will tell you if you have Ameracaunas or EE's. My Ameracaunas do lay blue eggs. I just got some EE's so I could have other colors of eggs.

 

[naf_appaz]

At work so can't post a pic but I'm quite sure they are EE's...TSC is well known for selling EE's as ameraucaunas....I have had chickens most of my life (when possible) and always liked EE's cause ya never know what color pattern your gonna get and they have always been good layers and friendly from my experience. I knew when I bought them that was what I was getting its just the fact out of close to 50 of them I have had over the years from different sources all laid olive green eggs never a blue. I had some cream legbar hens not to long ago unfortunately Mr. Bobcat got those...they were very blue eggs and good layers also but quite a bit more flighty/skittish than most of the EE's I have had. One of my hens (Ginger) looks almost identical to the post by Chadley earlier in this thread except she is a bit darker red. Some years back I got "ameraucaunas" from Mcmurray hatchery they too were EE's and all laid green...maybe I'm just unlucky

 

[naf_appaz]

I could still hit the jackpot, I have 3 hens the same age (aprox. 18 weeks) Ginger my red one does not have much in the way of muffs or beard and she is the one I believe laid the first today cause her comb is the reddest and she was doing the egg squat yesterday. Of my other two one is white and has a bushy muff and some ear flaps the other one is multi colored and has a beard and some muff not as much as the white one...we shall see, either way they are good girls! I don't doubt anyone, just my experience has been all olive green... I have a pair of light Sussex and her eggs look pink...probably just a very light shade of brown? But would be cool to get some blue ones in the basket!

 

[Leighe]

At work so can't post a pic but I'm quite sure they are EE's...TSC is well known for selling EE's as ameraucaunas....I have had chickens most of my life (when possible) and always liked EE's cause ya never know what color pattern your gonna get and they have always been good layers and friendly from my experience. I knew when I bought them that was what I was getting its just the fact out of close to 50 of them I have had over the years from different sources all laid olive green eggs never a blue. I had some cream legbar hens not to long ago unfortunately Mr. Bobcat got those...they were very blue eggs and good layers also but quite a bit more flighty/skittish than most of the EE's I have had. One of my hens (Ginger) looks almost identical to the post by Chadley earlier in this thread except she is a bit darker red. Some years back I got "ameraucaunas" from Mcmurray hatchery they too were EE's and all laid green...maybe I'm just unlucky

LOL, you're not unlucky. You'll get those blue eggs.

 

[apryl29]

At work so can't post a pic but I'm quite sure they are EE's...TSC is well known for selling EE's as ameraucaunas....I have had chickens most of my life (when possible) and always liked EE's cause ya never know what color pattern your gonna get and they have always been good layers and friendly from my experience. I knew when I bought them that was what I was getting its just the fact out of close to 50 of them I have had over the years from different sources all laid olive green eggs never a blue. I had some cream legbar hens not to long ago unfortunately Mr. Bobcat got those...they were very blue eggs and good layers also but quite a bit more flighty/skittish than most of the EE's I have had. One of my hens (Ginger) looks almost identical to the post by Chadley earlier in this thread except she is a bit darker red. Some years back I got "ameraucaunas" from Mcmurray hatchery they too were EE's and all laid green...maybe I'm just unlucky

My daughter's fav is an EE named Olive and were hoping she has Olive eggs. What did your olive egger look like? My blue eggs came from an all white egger.

 

[naf_appaz]

Good to hear I have a very pretty white one and of the 3 she has the biggest cheeks and even some ear flaps! Maybe she will break the ice for me! Should be soon...

 

[apryl29]

Good luck! We didn't get a colored egg today, but just knowing she's producing makes me excited for the others to start soon.

 

[naf_appaz]

Have been getting 1 a day now for 5 days, 4 olives and one that was noticeably lighter in color if I squint real hard maybe it looks kinda blue....lol. Think only one of the three hens is laying to date but possible the lighter egg came from a different hen.

 

[apryl29]

I wish it was easier to tell who laid what egg! I had an egger lay a shell-less egg and I thought it was laid the other white egger. She laid it late Tuesday evening & my girls are usually done by noon, except my bantam who is unpredictable. Then yesterday I had 4 brown eggs and 1 bantam, no blue eggs. I've started keeping track on a calendar b/c I'm trying to figure out why one of them doesn't seem to be laying, she used to, but hasn't in weeks (I think). Anyway, I'm not sure if it was the same bird who laid the shell-less egg that laid the previous eggs, or as I had assumed, the other bird laying for the first time. I guess I'll have to wait and see what I get today. I know it takes roughly a day for the eggs to form, but is it possible that she laid earlier in the day and then the next egg got to the uterus to form the shell, but got ejected too soon? I'm still leaning towards it being 2 different birds just b/c I hadn't been getting blue eggs every single day since they started. I got one brown egg yesterday that was much darker than any other I had gotten, and it was pecked, so I wondering if that was from a new layer too. I may get up extra early on Saturday just so I can go sit for hours and watch them to figure it out.