The EE braggers thread!!!

[ChickNmamma]

Here is Hika Ma, my junior crowing master, at 4 weeks old.

And THAT is the color I WISH they would STAY! I LOVE that pattern!

He is a cutie!

 

[Sueg4332]

go to chicken sale buy a rooster. breed your hen Resell rooster at sale. Keep rooster in small cage in garage dark to muffel crows.

 

[SD Bird Lady]

go to chicken sale buy a rooster. breed your hen Resell rooster at sale. Keep rooster in small cage in garage dark to muffel crows.

Not sure who your response was too. But, I think that is a good idea. Roosters are a dime a dozen, most people give them away. Snatch one up keep him for a couple weeks to a month then butcher. I know some don't approve of butchering but if you are going to hatch your own chicks you will always have excess cockerels. Why not put them to good use?

 

[TREX]

If I had more time that is exactly what i would do with mine.They have been very quiet in the garage in a cage.Only drawback is the garage is very hot in the summer and stuffy so it must be left open with the fan on for airflow which doesn't work out so well unless your home all day.Or you can drag them inside the airconditioning when you have to leave.I also leave the light on for them.

 

[shanadienne]

"EE bragger's thread" Perfect; I love bragging about how pretty my EE x RIR crosses came out!

I got one EE rooster as a free rare chick from McMurray, yet of his five female offspring with a Rhode Island Red, only ONE of them lays green eggs! The other four lay/laid eggs that I couldn't even tell apart from their mother's. I thought they'd all lay green eggs because I heard the gene was dominant. Grr, heterozygous rooster...

This is Malcolm, the one who lays green eggs, when she was four months old and not laying yet:




But then she molted and grew a new set of feathers:
(That happens to be her father next to her.)



Dorothy doesn't lay green eggs but she is the absolute prettiest hen we've ever had and she's half EE, so close enough. She was the most boring-looking chick for the first couple months of her life.

Four months, and this picture doesn't even capture how pretty she was:


After molting:





Okay, enough bragging. I actually found this thread for a reason.

What's the best hatchery to get easter eggers from? (Or best easter egger supplier in a ~25 mile radius of central Massachusetts.) I'd like to get some so we can sell full dozens of colorful eggs for slightly higher prices instead of just one or two in each dozen and I'm wondering if there's any hatchery that's especially good at producing pullets that lay big eggs in nice colors. Egg size being more important than color, actually.

 

[Kassaundra]

I got mine from Meyers and they all lay colored eggs, no brown egg layer in the bunch of 25 ordered chicks. (and I got healthy, pretty, good variety in color chicks to boot)

 

[Sueg4332]

Hatched new chicks the 7th of June All EE's Dads are Amerucana Blue splashes, 2 roos in the cage.
dad #1

What type of hen is this? white eggs, blue legs

Dad #2 hens pulled beard out

buff hen looks to be the mother of some of these chicks.

#1 roo silver hen

some of my hens all green or blue egg layers (except the barred hen)her sister lay beautiful olive egg

like my dark hen the fox doesn't catch to many of them





barred hen brown egg layer



In the chick picture there are some cochin bantams too not ees

 

[ChickNmamma]

"EE bragger's thread" Perfect; I love bragging about how pretty my EE x RIR crosses came out!

I got one EE rooster as a free rare chick from McMurray, yet of his five female offspring with a Rhode Island Red, only ONE of them lays green eggs! The other four lay/laid eggs that I couldn't even tell apart from their mother's. I thought they'd all lay green eggs because I heard the gene was dominant. Grr, heterozygous rooster...

This is Malcolm, the one who lays green eggs, when she was four months old and not laying yet:




But then she molted and grew a new set of feathers:
(That happens to be her father next to her.)



Dorothy doesn't lay green eggs but she is the absolute prettiest hen we've ever had and she's half EE, so close enough. She was the most boring-looking chick for the first couple months of her life.

Four months, and this picture doesn't even capture how pretty she was:


After molting:





Okay, enough bragging. I actually found this thread for a reason.

What's the best hatchery to get easter eggers from? (Or best easter egger supplier in a ~25 mile radius of central Massachusetts.) I'd like to get some so we can sell full dozens of colorful eggs for slightly higher prices instead of just one or two in each dozen and I'm wondering if there's any hatchery that's especially good at producing pullets that lay big eggs in nice colors. Egg size being more important than color, actually.

I love the colors of your girls.

I bought my EEs from McMurray last year and all of them lay a nice large blue egg. However, all of mine are the brown/black wild pattern chickens.. no pretty white ones like you have. Perhaps if you got a rooster from McMurray he would be Homozygeous for O/O? I gave up on mine (because I got him from the feedstore and he had no muff) and switched to a Blue Isbar instead. At least the female babies will lay green eggs. I just hatched out 8 babies from them, 2 Blue and 6 Black. I also have some upcoming Ameraucana boys I could use.. for Lavender/Isabella EEs down the road..

 

[Sueg4332]

i dont collect my eggs everyday because i am always busy and i just throw away, because i dont like to eat eggs

. so If i took away the eggs they are akying on they would wait for someone to lay and egg and sit on it (they are determined lol). I think I have about 10 chicks right now, around 35 chickens grown, and 21 eggs in the incubator. But who couldnt use more chickss. I think i have a little obession lol. O well it is a good hobby to have!

why don't you scrable those eggs and feed them back to your hens? they love eggs

 

[jerryse]

Picked this guy up at the sale barn friday.Cerel is auto sexing.I want this color for auto sexing.Do not know what breed or mix he is.He is in isolation for now.So many people want pullets only that I think autosexings time has come.