Looking at this breed as I love Easter Eggers, but was thinking of adding a blue egg layer to the flock. It looks like as with Easter Eggers, you still might get a variation of blue which includes green? I wonder if that also means is a possibility to get a brown egg. Which then leads me to think this is just a different Easter Egger variety. Well played Meyer hatchery.
I wonder if this breed is created from the cream legbar?
I love the barred plumage, but it would also be fun to get a lavender variety as posted by the Ohbrahmas. The black barred varieties remind me of my barred rocks and the blue barred reminds me of my sapphire gems (which is a barred rock hybrid). Just add a poof and you've got the lakeside egger.
My current Easter Egger is a black and white with a spangled pattern. She is about 7 years old. She has laid a mint green egg, but does so very sporadically these days. I got her from a local backyard farmer who had too many chickens for such a small coop and they needed to re-home about half of their chickens because they weren't ready for winter. I got ZuZu with her sister Maizie (ergo my username). When we caught the chickens, it was kind of chaotic. The lady caught my ZuZu and handed her to me and said, "Here you can have the ugly one." I took her and whispered, "You're not ugly." Eventually she turned out to be my top hen, she doesn't take gruff from any chicken.
I knew as a cross she could look different but I struggled find examples of similar looking Lakeside Eggers. Shes a beautiful light gray bird with puffy cheeks. Meyer did confirm she is a lakeside egger and she laid her first egg this week, a beautiful blue! Sharing in case it helps anyone else trying to figure out which of their chicks is the LE!
