My EE's are laying BROWN EGGS!

[joedie]

I have 4 EE's and the first one began laying about a month ago, a beautiful mint green egg. That left only my Polish and the other 3 EE's who were not laying. Last week I started getting two little brown pullet eggs every day so must be from the other EE's as the Polish will lay white.

BTW, they all have pea combs. I thought that increased the odds of colored eggs?

 

[Katy]

It's the luck of the draw what color eggs EEs will lay.

 

[farmerlor]

Yeah, sorry but EEs can lay just about any color egg depending on what kind of chicken the cross was made with. I have one little EE who's laying olive eggs and one who's laying pretty rose colored eggs, the rest all vary between tan and blue and green.

 

[JP62]

We have 4 Americauna's from Meyer's Hatchery. They just started laying about 2 weeks ago and they are all brown just like all the rest. The kids are really disappointed since we have been telling them that they would be laying green eggs. I have never had EE's before so I thought maybe they would change as they got older but that probably isn't the case.

 

[joedie]

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Nope, they won't change colors. What you see is what you get. BTW, if your Americaunas are from any hatchery, they are Easter Eggers. Hatcheries sell EE's as Americaunas.

 

[cybercat]

Well, since they are mixed you just never know. Sounds like demand so high for the EE they are just mixing brown egg layers now.

 

[cherylcohen]

I just found out my 2 ameraucanas are actually EEs - it's fine cuz we love them, BUT there's something that should be done with these hatcheries that are passing EEs off as Ameraucanas. What do you think?

 

[joedie]

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I agree!. Mine were sold as Americaunas at the feed store but I knew they were EE's before I bought them from reading this site. But the average person doesn't know this and this is very misleading. They shouldn't be allowed to sell them as such.

 

[cybercat]

Thats has been an issue with the pure club for years. They have made no lead way on it. Most say they are one of 3 and others call them rainbow layers. I only know of 1 hatchery that sells pure and it is black.

 

[cherylcohen]

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Black?