The EE braggers thread!!!

[Andi]

I just love those EEs that are light colored! I'm so jealous! I still wouldn't trade my girls though. Geez, never enough space for all that I want.

About the brown EE eggs - it's my understanding that EEs are mixed breed birds that are likely to have Araucana mixed in somewhere. That's likely where the muffs and beards come from (although other breeds do have them). The Araucana carry the gene for the blue eggs, which is a dominant gene, and that's why EEs often have blue or blue-green eggs. If your little sweetie is laying those pretty brown eggs, its just luck of the draw that she didn't inherit the blue gene. She did, however, inherit the gene that makes brown eggs. It will be interesting to find out if her sisters lay brown, pink or olive eggs. Each of those colors, I do believe (someone correct me if I'm wrong), carry the brown gene. The olive eggs carry both the brown and the blue gene, I think. Let us know what the other EEs end up laying. I'm curious.

 

[danielle82]

all of you have such nice looking EE's! My Margot has been laying an egg every two days, I'm very happy with her dedication to my egg eating habits lol My son and I interrupted her yesterday while she was in the nest box though, it didn't seem to faze her luckily. She just kinda looked up at us and laid her egg, My son (who's 3) thought that was the coolest thing he'd ever seen

 

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

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That's so funny, here's my girlfriend's "Princess Penelope"...

We hatched her from eggs purchased on eggbid and she lays a large, light olive egg nearly every single day.

 

[pinkchick]

Pretty! Pretty Pretty!

i LoVe EaStEr EgGeRs!

 

[vegaschick]

Thanks so much for all your lovely comments. I think the girls are beautiful too. My dad's the one who thinks that Jules is a boy but I figure that if they are old enough to lay one being a male would be way more obvious by now. Speaking of eggs, she (whichever it may be) skipped yesterday (probably something to do with the wretched wet weather they wouldn't stay out of) but gave me another egg today.

I hear a lot of people talking smack about how EE's don't lay very regularly, but of all my girls, I now have 13, the only ones laying are 3 EE's. Hands down they are my favorites! I have two other EE's from Ideal (I think) Amelia lays a light green, large egg 5-6 days a week and Delores lays a darker green, smaller egg a little better than every other day.

I was so very excited to get some light colored EE's. The lady I purchased them from said they were from Cackle Hatchery. Napa Valley Chicks got hers from Eggbid ... where are all of your EE's from? Oh, and what egg color, size and frequency do they produce? Pics welcome! I'll take some tomorrow of hens and eggs and add them.

 

[stormylady]

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mine lay everyday, and purty to boot, LOL They shouldn't talk smack about our girls like that!

 

[herbandteas]

Sadly I just have one ee left but I am hoping to get more. I started out with 6 chicks but gave 3 of them to a friend. So once they started laying I had blue, pale green and a very light pink. I lost two of them so I just have my pink layer. She is soooo sweet and she lets my 3 yr old grandaughter give her pets and kisses. At least all that I have of them is the one I love the most. She is a brownish red lacing with gray tail , tuffs and a bit of a beard.





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[KandJsmama]

Mine are coming up on 26 weeks and no eggs yet! We got them from MPC. They do have red combs now and one is squatting so I think we are getting close!

 

[vegaschick]

Woohoo! Another one of my new girls laid for the first time today! It was Jules, the one my dad thought was a roo! HA! That'll show him. It's a large light brown and I'm so excited for the size, that's huge for a first egg! Plus I got eggs from all the other laying EE's, that's four eggs today which is double my max production so far. I have only one other EE that hasn't started laying and 8 other hens of various breeds that are totally freeloading. They better shape up ... soon!

herbandteas: so sorry for your loss but I'm glad you've still got the one you liked most of all. One of my other EE's, Delores, has brownish red lacing with a gray beard.

KandJsmama: don't worry, they seem to start laying a bit later than other breeds but from what I've read they seem to lay longer (?) mine were 8-9 months so ... be patient, it'll be worth the wait and they are both beautiful. Kinda funny how many light ones seem to be named Penny or Penelope, huh!?! What's your other girl's name? Where did you get yours?

 

[KandJsmama]

The other one in the pic is Maddie and I have a 3rd one named Ida. They all came from MPC.