Green eggs...Ameraucanas...auarcanas....EE's....whatever...questions

[snowydiamonds]

Sorry, only the hen that lays the blue/green egg paid rent today. I just sold and delivered five 18 packs and two 12 packs which left me w/only one egg from the past two days (which paid for a bag of feed w/shipping & handling plus ($45)

Today they laid 26 eggs and I've got to check three coops to end the count for today and four eggs froze.

Give me acouple days and I'll get a pic...

 

[paduanchook]

in my experience the white based ee's lay a blue to blue green egg and are lighter in weight and the gold based ee's are olive eggers and are heavier, is this just my experience or is this true3 for others as well?
i have crossed an ee roo w/my cuckoo marans and got either cuckoos (w/beard) or greys w/mild barring (w/beard). im hoping to have dark green eggs from them and they are large in stature

 

[snowydiamonds]

Paduan, what about the black EE's? Mine are good weight, size but lately are laying lighter and lighter eggs...got two today, lighter than they've been.

 

[paduanchook]

my ee chickens eggs do get some lighter over time. I had some that layed light blue that faded to almost white. ive no experience w/black ee's for i live in florida and it gets hot/w humidity so i steer from them. but im curious to know also

 

[alpinefarm]

onthespot, I would also love some of your olive egger eggs in the spring!

 

[onthespot]

I am growing out some pullets. Some are barred, some are pea combed, some are bearded, some are barred and bearded with no pea comb, some are pea combed and barred with no beard, and some are pea combed and bearded, but no barring, so far not a ONE is barred, bearded AND pea combed, but I think I have enough of the above to hatch the next generation and get closer to my goal. I also have an exquisite selection of marans to cross them on to get whatever else I want to add from the marans side, copper black, splash, blue cuckoo, black. If all goes well by next year I ought to have a killer flock of barred, bearded, pea combed, olive egg laying dynamos! I realize that this color will never be accepted into the Ameraucana club, so I am going as far as I can the other way, for the darkest olive eggs I can manage. You KNOW i will be posting update pics when these pullets begin to lay. I can't wait to see how the egg color comes out!

 

[HorseFeathers]

Well, it is true there are "Olive-eggers". But often, an EE will lay olive eggs instead of blue. If you want olive for certain though, go with what Mahonri said.

 

[geareduplyn]

I have 10 chicks that were hatched from Blue eggs who were sired by a Black Copper Marans. They should lay a nice Olive Green egg. They are about 2 months old. They are free for the taking, but they must be picked up and you must take them all. Lots of pictures in a post on 11/2 on the Raising Baby Chicks topic. The Thread is My Yard Chicken.

 

[cherig22]

onthespot, I HAVE to have some of those eggs~! Money is no object!

OK, money is not much of an object.....

In the spring I would love to buy some of those eggs. Email me in the spring and I will do you proud.

They are beautiful!

Cheri

 

[onthespot]

and I would be proud to have my chickens representin' in Missouri! I will be sure to post when they start to lay in the spring. Right now the oldest are almost two months old. They are already looking feathered out and some are clucking. They seem to be fast maturing (but I do feed good, and keep renewing their feed all day long, and clean water whenever I see too many crumbs in the waterer.) I am just NUTS about these barred EE's. They hatch out EXTREMELY vigorously, very strong on their feet the first day. I just count my lucky stars I got that hen when I did. She was just an afterthought, as I had gone down to buy marans, but I just couldn't get her out of my mind. I went back and bought her, and a few more marans. What a stroke of luck to find her. The owner thought she didn't lay green eggs. She thought she had already began to lay but was not finding green eggs, so assumed she was laying brown eggs. It was also just my luck she was exposed to twenty different marans roos before I bought her and she started to lay a week later. I hatched everything I could to get max genetic diversity, since I was starting a variety from just one hen, I figured it was no worse genetically than a single roo with multiple hens, or a single hen with many roos. It was just one of those moments when you totally luck out and one, are sharp enough to realize it, and second, can actually do something to take advantage of it. Keep in touch, especially in March or April. I don't keep lists, although I should.