How do your EEs lay?

[Organics North]

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No, that just tells you the hen/mothers egg color. You must also know the roosters/fathers egg color gene.

For blue eggs you need two blue genes or one blue and one white.

IF you hatch from a blue egg and the father has a brown gene, you should get a green egg..


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Rainbow birds, you mean 5-7 a week...not "day" I assume.

ON

 

[donnavee]

I have 2 EE's from MPC which were hatched last April. One started laying at about 19 wks (green colored) and the other not until this January (cream colored). They consistently lay 5-6 eggs per week and ours have very different, but comical personalities. I highly recommend them as a great addition to a backyard flock.

 

[wordgirl]

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EE is short for 'Easter Egger' which is a mix between a blue egg layer and another breed. Since they are mutts, they don't necessarily have to lay a colored egg (blue, green, pink, olive, etc.), but a lot of birds do – others just lay 'normal' colors.

Don't feel silly – I had to ask that question, too! And

Hmm...I want a couple, but I really want some top producing birds (and they need to lay over the winter, and I highly prefer early maturers, at least this year). I can only keep a limited amount of birds, but we use quite a few eggs and I like to have a lot leftover to sell. I don't want just Gold Links in my flock, either, though if they end up being the majority of it, that'd be okay.

The EEs are really cute and I liked the idea of having a couple 'special' colored layers.

Hmm...

Thanks for all the replies. This is really helpful!

 

[Dixiedoodle]

My Easter Eggers didn't start laying until they were 39 and 40 weeks old. They actually didn't start laying until it was 'dead' of winter, coldest two days of the year...but they have laid an average of 4-5 eggs a week. Mine girls came from Kim NC (BYC member) and both lay beautiful eggs. One is a large, almost round green egg and the other is a medium size and much longer. It is minty green w/ tiny brown specks on it. Well worth the wait.

 

[rancher hicks]

Well , I got six chicks in the brooder and I' wish they'd hurry up. Oh and "Organics" thanks for the answer.

 

[newchicksnducks]

I had 3 EE's. I picked them up from a farmer at around 2 weeks old, he said he got them from Cackle Hatchery. My white EE started laying at what I believe to be 20 weeks (assuming the farmer's age was accurate) and the other two brown girls were laying by 22 weeks. The first girl laid real light cream colored eggs, the last two lay green eggs w/blue tint. When a hawk killed the white EE at Christmas time, one of the other girls went on strike and did not lay another egg untill March. Now both remaining E are laying about 5 eggs a day. Everyone loves to see the color in our otherwise shades of brown egg carton

 

[RainbowBirds_of_a_Feather]

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No, that just tells you the hen/mothers egg color. You must also know the roosters/fathers egg color gene.

For blue eggs you need two blue genes or one blue and one white.

IF you hatch from a blue egg and the father has a brown gene, you should get a green egg..


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Rainbow birds, you mean 5-7 a week...not "day" I assume.

ON

Aloha Organics North, thanks for the correction,

!! I totally missed that before i posted. But i think I meant that my EE gals will lay cumulatively in a day 5-7 eggs, as a flock a day.

 

[cristina33]

I have six ee girls and I think they each lay an egg everyother day. They are not the best layers I have had thats for sure but the eggs are so pretty. I get blue , green and a olive green , pink and tan and a whitish egg. So I believe they each lay a differant color or they are rainbow layers LOL.

Cristina

 

[feathersnuggles]

I have 2 EEs, both will be a year old at the beginning of May. One is a hatchery bird that lays light green or sage green eggs; she started laying at 28 weeks. The other is a local barnyard mutt (nobody knew her parentage but she does have a little beard) and she lays a light beige/or pink egg; she started laying at 25 weeks. The EE mutt lays 5 or more eggs/week. The green egg layer puts out about 4-1/2 eggs per week. Both give large, but not huge eggs.

It takes the green egg layer a few hours longer to produce an egg than the beige egger. I think it's due to all that additional pigmentation she's infusing into the liquid calcium carbonate that becomes her hardened blue-green shell. She uses two different pigments - products of hemoglobin breakdown. The blue-green pigment, biliverdin, which permeates the entire shell, is actually antioxidant, and so signals the bird's health. The brown pigment, existing only on the shell's cuticle, is not particularly health-indicative. Because of the complexity of her eggshell production, I credit her for giving as many eggs as she does. And she's sweet, to boot!

 

[BC_Farms]

Our EE lays about 4-5 eggs per week...and they are the biggest eggs we get! She's an older hen too...around 4 or 5. She didn't lay in the winter though. She has a great personality and is our favorite chicken!