Prairie Bluebell Egger

[ChickNanny13]

Ok having a hard time editing but does that look like a rooster ? I have two of them, 5 months old, the other one is smaller, and one of them laid a blue egg.View attachment 2013697

Both look like pullets to me ... These "new" breeds the hatcheries are producing really vary in looks. Yours look alot like one of my WTB .... She suppose to have a pea comb but looks like a rose to me. Lays "baby blue " egg.

This is the other WTB that also lays baby blue eggs ... Got them from a friend, hers still not laying while mine have been laying since Dec (20wks). Same shipment, hers are colored different from mine.

The WTG suppose to lay green eggs but one's laying brown eggs. They all have been laying every day

So don't give up on yours .... Their combs are red, once you see the squatting, they should start laying within a few weeks. How old are yours?

 

[SAMnELLA]

Both look like pullets to me ... These "new" breeds the hatcheries are producing really vary in looks. Yours look alot like one of my WTB .... She suppose to have a pea comb but looks like a rose to me. Lays "baby blue " egg.
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This is the other WTB that also lays baby blue eggs ... Got them from a friend, hers still not laying while mine have been laying since Dec (20wks). Same shipment, hers are colored different from mine.
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The WTG suppose to lay green eggs but one's laying brown eggs. They all have been laying every day View attachment 2014218

So don't give up on yours .... Their combs are red, once you see the squatting, they should start laying within a few weeks. How old are yours?

Thankyou, that gives me more hope. They are 5 months.

 

[SAMnELLA]

Cool I'll be happy when I see two blue eggs .

 

[southernlasssc]

We have 1 Prairie Bluebell that we got at Tractor Supply. She is right at 5 months. Like you, I haven't found much online about them. She is our only experience with her breed. As she has grown her coloration has changed greatly. I could have convinced people each stage was a different bird. She was browns with a brown stripe down her back when we got her. She looked more like a woodland bird than a chicken to me. We named her Coille, which is Gaelic for forest.


She grayed out and then the comb and tan came out and now looks like the attached picture. She has yet to lay any eggs. We got 4 different chicks at the beginning of September. Two started laying this week, a Barred Rock and an Ancona. She is the smallest of the 4. She is a strong flier and likes to be up high.

 

[21hens-incharge]

I have 2 here that are still under a year old. One lays a green egg....might have been mixed in from the starlight green layers at the feed store....but they are really careful there. No it was not TSC.
One is a rich chocolate color with gold highlights and a beard. The other is white with a red chest and grey mixed in on the back. She is also bearded.

I don't think the feed store mixed them up because their chick cages are actual cages, two rows of three above and three below back to back. The starlight greens were diagonally opposite in position. To mix them someone would literally have to carry it around the end of the cages.

I am not disappointed in them they are lively pretty birds that lay nice sized pretty eggs.

 

[Birdsong 82]

A lot of these mixed breeds have so many different looks. I have 2 Olive eggers and they're like the odd couple. One is a larger sized girl with muffs in completely black and the other one is smaller and looks very similar to your blue bell.

 

[ChickNanny13]

2x @21hens-incharge & @Rachel Taylor

I've always switched out my hens at a year old but these I'm really liking, so hanging on to them for a bit more. Love the color variations in them (2WTB & 2WTG) ... Like the most of the hatchery's breeding line, they are very interesting and not much info.

 

[21hens-incharge]

One other reason I like them.....

I had nothing but trouble with EE. Lots of genetic issues along with shell issues and early deaths from both genetics and shell problems.
So far the bluebells have had ZERO issues. Good egg numbers....actually GREAT egg numbers as they rarely take a day off. No visible genetic issues.
Time will tell if I see young losses.

 

[ChickNanny13]

@21hens-incharge Same here with the WTB/WTG ... Amazing laying & health

 

[southernlasssc]

We have 1 Prairie Bluebell that we got at Tractor Supply. She is right at 5 months. Like you, I haven't found much online about them. She is our only experience with her breed. As she has grown her coloration has changed greatly. I could have convinced people each stage was a different bird. She was browns with a brown stripe down her back when we got her. She looked more like a woodland bird than a chicken to me. We named her Coille, which is Gaelic for forest.
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She grayed out and then the comb and tan came out and now looks like the attached picture. She has yet to lay any eggs. We got 4 different chicks at the beginning of September. Two started laying this week, a Barred Rock and an Ancona. She is the smallest of the 4. She is a strong flier and likes to be up high.

UPDATE TO POST: Not sure how likely it is that a Prairie Bluebell could lay a white egg. She started laying this week, and both eggs are white. At Tractor supply they had 3 breeds in the trough. She is definitely not the other 2. So either Tractor Supply labeled them wrong or PBB don't always lay blue. I am happy to have eggs, but I was looking forward to blue.