The EE braggers thread!!!

[thendrick3469]

I got him from a friend. She is new to chickens also. He was her first hatchling. She said the rooster he came from was supposed to be ameracauna and thinks mom was either a white or black hen. I'm fine with him being an easter egger. I'm just trying to learn all I can abt my chickens.

 

[Bekkaseggs]

This is Mindy. I bought her full grown from the local hatchery. I love her red/blue plumage!

 

[Bekkaseggs]

Such a handsome and unusual looking bird. I like him.

Jerry can you tell me anything by looking at this guy with his lavender tail? (well, it looks lavender to me).. Does he have a lavender gene or what is he? I know you have seen him before, I am really starting to like him and want to know if I should keep or remove him.

 

[StarMeKritten]

Jerry can you tell me anything by looking at this guy with his lavender tail? (well, it looks lavender to me).. Does he have a lavender gene or what is he? I know you have seen him before, I am really starting to like him and want to know if I should keep or remove him.

Beautiful rooster! He's blue not lavender. Lavender would also dilute the red.

 

[duluthralphie]

Beautiful rooster! He's blue not lavender. Lavender would also dilute the red.

That is good to know. He is a good looking bird, he has his Dad's tail and I have no idea who his mother is. BUT the red front and the blue rear is unique for my birds.

 

[annabellaknits]

I figured they weren't laying yet but maybe in the future? Lol
I'm in Virginia

They should start laying soon!!! Maybe I'm not sure how to ship animals... Lol we shall see when that time comes![/quote]

I'm cool with just hatching eggs

 

[Susieq2015]

Does anyone elses Easter Egger egg color seem to vary from day to day? The first pic is a 2 day collection I delivered for hatching yesterday..and the EE eggs look light green. The 2nd pic is what I just collected now and there's distinctly 2 blues and a green. I have 2 EE and 1 CL laying right now...my next up and coming EEs are only 3 months old so no chance of new layers yet. Ive had other days I'll collect a nice deep blue..then next day green again. Anyone else have this variation? I wonder if on the nice weather days they get out to forage causes it...or the lighting...or my eyes lol

 

[Bekkaseggs]

I don't know why, but my girls's eggs are sometimes blue when I collect them, and then turn green after being in the fridge awhile.

Does anyone elses Easter Egger egg color seem to vary from day to day? The first pic is a 2 day collection I delivered for hatching yesterday..and the EE eggs look light green. The 2nd pic is what I just collected now and there's distinctly 2 blues and a green. I have 2 EE and 1 CL laying right now...my next up and coming EEs are only 3 months old so no chance of new layers yet. Ive had other days I'll collect a nice deep blue..then next day green again. Anyone else have this variation? I wonder if on the nice weather days they get out to forage causes it...or the lighting...or my eyes lol

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[DigMyChicks]

Does anyone elses Easter Egger egg color seem to vary from day to day? The first pic is a 2 day collection I delivered for hatching yesterday..and the EE eggs look light green. The 2nd pic is what I just collected now and there's distinctly 2 blues and a green. I have 2 EE and 1 CL laying right now...my next up and coming EEs are only 3 months old so no chance of new layers yet. Ive had other days I'll collect a nice deep blue..then next day green again. Anyone else have this variation? I wonder if on the nice weather days they get out to forage causes it...or the lighting...or my eyes lol

I was just wondering that myself...out of my 7 EE's 5 lay green, 1 lays blue and one brown. My blue layer is molting and I got a blue egg today. My understanding is they don't lay when they molt?

 

[bruceha2000]

I was just wondering that myself...out of my 7 EE's 5 lay green, 1 lays blue and one brown. My blue layer is molting and I got a blue egg today. My understanding is they don't lay when they molt?

Generally, no they don't lay when they are moulting but some people's birds do. Mine never have.

Does anyone elses Easter Egger egg color seem to vary from day to day? The first pic is a 2 day collection I delivered for hatching yesterday..and the EE eggs look light green. The 2nd pic is what I just collected now and there's distinctly 2 blues and a green. I have 2 EE and 1 CL laying right now...my next up and coming EEs are only 3 months old so no chance of new layers yet. Ive had other days I'll collect a nice deep blue..then next day green again. Anyone else have this variation? I wonder if on the nice weather days they get out to forage causes it...or the lighting...or my eyes lol

The CL should only lay blue, right? I can see some variation in the color of my EE's eggs. Of my original 2 one (the one that was eaten by a fox April 2014) layed blue the other green. But sometimes the blue egg was shading kinda toward green and sometimes the green shaded somewhat toward blue and I really had to look at them together to see which was which.

Same with the three 2015 chicks. One is green, one blue, one in between. I can tell the blue from the green but sometimes the "in between" looks blue and sometimes green until I compare it to the other two.

My understanding is that a truly blue egg is a white shell impregnated all the way through with blue and a green egg, having a brown component would be the same but maybe like brown layers, the hen coats some brown "paint" on the outside of the egg as it nears the shipping dock? Thus the green color "changes" depending on how much "paint" was applied. Thinner and more of the blue will show through resulting in a lighter green. Heavier and less of the blue shows through resulting in a darker green.