LGBTQ+ Poultry Keepers

[Chickaritasowner]

Welcome to the thread! Happy to have you! How many chickens do you have and what breeds?

 

[Ihavesomechickens]

Welcome to the thread! Happy to have you! How many chickens do you have and what breeds?

I have 5 currently. 4 EEs and 1 Buff Orpington.

 

[Chickaritasowner]

Very nice! I have 2 Buff Orpingtons, 2 Rhode Island Reds, 2 Barred Plymout Rocks, and 2 either Black Australorps or New Jersey Giants. They are lots of fun. How do you like your EEs?

 

[Ihavesomechickens]

Very nice! I have 2 Buff Orpingtons, 2 Rhode Island Reds, 2 Barred Plymout Rocks, and 2 either Black Australorps or New Jersey Giants. They are lots of fun. How do you like your EEs?

The EEs are a colorful bunch. They are friendlier then my Buff Orpington, and they don’t have as high a food drive.

 

[Chickaritasowner]

That's fair. Yea Buffs sure do like their food haha. It is always impressive to me how fast mine will come running for treats. I actually ordered 2 EEs as started pullets to add to my flock and should get them in 2 weeks which I am very excited for! Are yours laying yet?

 

[Ihavesomechickens]

That's fair. Yea Buffs sure do like their food haha. It is always impressive to me how fast mine will come running for treats. I actually ordered 2 EEs as started pullets to add to my flock and should get them in 2 weeks which I am very excited for! Are yours laying yet?

No. EEs can take a long time to start laying, so I’m not expecting them all to be laying regularly till around the holiday season.

 

[Chickaritasowner]

That's fair. I am excited to see what color eggs I will get from them. I know all my other girls will lay brown eggs.

 

[Ihavesomechickens]

That's fair. I am excited to see what color eggs I will get from them. I know all my other girls will lay brown eggs.

EEs are one of my favorite hybrids because you never know what color egg they will lay. Unlike other breeds, where you can be pretty sure they will lay a certain color, EEs are a mystery.

 

[Chickaritasowner]

Yea, that is what I have heard. I'm excited that they can be friendlier too. Out of all my birds only my Barred Plymouth Rocks will sometimes let me pick them up

 

[Ihavesomechickens]

Yea, that is what I have heard. I'm excited that they can be friendlier too. Out of all my birds only my Barred Plymouth Rocks will sometimes let me pick them up

EEs are normally friendly, but in my experience there is always one that doesn’t like people. My most friendly bird is an EE named Georgie Girl, well it used to be my EE cockerel Prince. My Buff Orpington was never close to the friendliest.