Info on easter eggers?

[iloveanimals]

Well I am planning on getting easter egger chickens for ffa for high school next year. I can't wait but I want info and if possible pictures. I will buy a coop but for the run I am gonna use a upside down trampoline and put chicken run all around it. Any other info needed plz tell me!!!

 

[KellyHM]

Why don't you use the trampoline right side up? That way they can scratch around in the dirt and they'll have some shade too. I love my EEs!!

 

[iloveanimals]

I cut off the black part so its not there. Are easter eggers friendly? How many eggs do they lay?

 

[KellyHM]

Most of mine lay an egg a day and all of mine are friendly.

 

[AinaWGSD]

You may want to ask about EE in the breeders/hatchery section. Because EE are not a breed per say, rather a type of chicken, there is a lot of variability in size, temperament, and egg laying ability. Some people will tell you that their EE are great layers, others will say they are their worst layers. Some will find that their EE are super friendly, others have had quite flighty EE. It depends in large part on where you get them and what the parent stock is like.

I have 3 EE. One is my best layer and was the first to start laying. She gives me just about one green egg a day. She's very friendly, easily handled, and was at one time clearly the bottom of the pecking order (since she started laying she seems to have moved up in the world as she doesn't seem to be picked on quite as much). One is also an excellent layer, almost an egg a day and a lovely shade of green, but she has a cross-beak that requires regular maintenance and special feeding. Also a sweetie and takes all the manhandling that we have to dish out due to her beak in stride. The third is my worst layer. Her eggs are large, but the shells are paper-thin. She rarely lays in the nest box, which is a blessing in disguise because as often as not her eggs are cracked due to being so thin shelled. Often there is a weird membrane over the egg. She also only gives me about 3 eggs a week (I think, I'm sure I miss some if she lays in the run and they get smashed first, or sometimes I'll find the remains of the shell on the floor of the coop buried in shavings). But she's very friendly and her saving grace is that she is my toddler's buddy. She's also very good at foraging when they're free ranging in the yard. But as an egg layer, she's totally useless. I won't give her eggs away because they're so thin shelled I feel I have to eat them within 24 hours or risk contamination.

Mine came from MPC, which drop ships from another hatchery (can't remember which one though).