Green Queen - Meyer Hatchery

AmyR80

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I bought 4 new chicks just over 3 weeks ago, one of which is a Green Queen. It seems like Meyer came up with the name. I'd love to see before and after pictures of yours if you have one and a picture of their eggs if they are laying.

My daughter calls ours a penguin because she has a layer of white feathers underneath .
 

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Got my Green Queen from Meyer in April. She is gorgeous and talks a lot! Can’t tell if she’s mixed with a light Brahma or Favorelle but she’s highest on the pecking order so I’m thinking Brahma mix.


And she lays BROWN eggs. I was so disappointed but we love her. (She’s the white one obviously...beard, muffs, and feathered feet.)
 

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Green Queen are a fancy-bred and named EE, well I guess fancy olive-egged (which is also a fancy EE ...) I too envisioned the buff coloring of the Green Queen in the pic, despite reading that their color is variable. Mine was almost all black as a chick and as a pullet it pretty much solid iridescent black. She has a beard and muffs, and five toes (faverolle in the mix?). She laid three lovely olive eggs - very small and perfectly shaped last week (not fairy egg; had a small orange yolk) - in a row, and then none since. I did take a pic of one, but the color is so off in the image it would be an affront to show it! I suspect she’ll lay more consistently a little later on.
 
They just look like easter eggers, since that's what they are.:]
Don't let them ride on your head or shoulders, it's cute now but it's not when they're full grown and insist on it.
 
I have one Meyer Hatchery green queen. We call her Goth-Chicken. She is... Spirited, I guess. I would be more inclined to call her standoffish, and on worse days, hateful.

Still cute, though. Pics go from most recent to oldest.
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I have one Meyer Hatchery green queen. We call her Goth-Chicken. She is... Spirited, I guess. I would be more inclined to call her standoffish, and on worse days, hateful.

Still cute, though. Pics go from most recent to oldest.
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Ooooh this looks more like mine! How old is yours? Does yours have feathered legs like mine? Mine is decently friendly and let's us hold and pet her so far. Mine is 4 weeks old.
 
That's what I said!!! I only figured out which one was her because the red sex link is obvious, as is the Buff brahma. Was fairly unsure of who was who re: EE and GQ. maybe I've still got it mixed up? Who knows!
Haha go figure! I can’t ever figure out who’s who unless they’re banded
 

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