The EE braggers thread!!!

[megcpat]

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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh .. the girl with the white beard.. I've got a little girl that I hope turns out like that. She is lighter (almost palomino) than the others and I've noticed a little white beard .. I've named her "vanilla" .. all my girls will have spice names..

That's Icess, and yes, she's really quite something to look at. I love washing my dishes and watching her out the window, pecking about the yard in the sun shine. She is exceptionally sweet also. I have four other 23 week old EEers who should start laying any week now!!!!! I can't wait. I only have two adult EEers who lay a blue egg, all the others lay white (hatchery stock), so I have high hopes for this bunch of "off standard" gals - they are all supposed to carry two copies of the blue egg gene. I sell fresh eggs and everyone wants more colored eggs, of course. I slip in some of my banty Araucanas' beautiful blue eggs, but they're rather small and I feel like I'm ripping off my customers, even though they insist that they love those little blue eggs.
How old is your chick that has the white beard? I just love the white beards - well, any beard really, when it is a different color from the feathers around it and stands out like that. just one of the many joys of EEers.

Chicks4kids, beautiful green egg! What is it about those first eggs - they are just so precious. And I want those turkey eggs! Talk about beautiful eggs............

 

[Chickanmanfromarkansas]

Hello fellow Easter Egger lovers,
My chickies arrived on Wed 3-17-2010. Ordered 27 from Cackle Hatchery. This is myfavorite hatchery have dealt with them many years
ago and was always happy with them.
My order was for 27 chicks, I received 29.
5-White Rock Pullets
2-White Rock cockerals
10-Straight Run Lakenvelders
5-Easter Egger Pullets (Cackle is now calling their Ameraucanas Easter Eggers) hooray for them
5-Straight run Silver Laced Polish. They called and said they didn't have a very good hatch and wanted to subtitute Blue Polish,
My Nephew accepted them for me. They are really nice ones too. I appreciate Cackle for their honesty.

I think though the EE's are my favorite. They are blueish mixed with a reddish look, maybe a Wheaten colored one, I'll know for sure in a week or so when their feathers start coming in better.

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

Please don't laugh at me..I have a ?, I think I know the answer, but I am not 100% sure. Ok, I had cuckoo Marans and they crossed temporarily with my Ameraucana rooster. the off spring are laying an olive colored egg. Now, I have found out that is why it's happeniing,. I have a light brahma hen, and today she got off of the nest and a couple of hours later I found an olive egg in her nest. she is in the same hen house as the EE's. but she is an adult and has always layed a brown egg...she can't just switch stream in the middle of laying and start a different color can she????? I am thinking an EE got in the nest before her or after her and laid the egg.

 

[M To The Maxx]

D'Angelo N Va. :

Please don't laugh at me..I have a ?, I think I know the answer, but I am not 100% sure. Ok, I had cuckoo Marans and they crossed temporarily with my Ameraucana rooster. the off spring are laying an olive colored egg. Now, I have found out that is why it's happeniing,. I have a light brahma hen, and today she got off of the nest and a couple of hours later I found an olive egg in her nest. she is in the same hen house as the EE's. but she is an adult and has always layed a brown egg...she can't just switch stream in the middle of laying and start a different color can she????? I am thinking an EE got in the nest before her or after her and laid the egg.

One of your EE hens go in the nest before or after she was in the egg box. She cannot change egg color.​

 

[Kansaseq]

Some pics
Sunflower

Unnamed 1mo cockerel

 

[M To The Maxx]

Here are a couple pics of EEs that Dixie hatched a couple months ago.

This is Maggie my only hen from the hatch.

This is Tucker our Barred EE roo. We are keeping him and hoping from him a Maggie to breed when they are older.

 

[ChickenMama18]

Well I'm sure you'll all be shocked by my next statement: I thought I had ameraucanas (that's what I was told) when I really had EE's! So yeah, I got a quick lesson, not that it mattered I love them whatever their name is! Here's a few pics:

Apache...she's so sweet! The whole flock picks on her and it's not like we had aggressive breeds with her. Poor girl she's just WAY at the bottom of the pecking order. I finally had to seperate her and now she's alone, but she gets to free range with the others. We have new chicks now that we're hoping to integrate with her so she'll have some company! She lays green eggs!

Our new EE chicks...praying for girls!

I love when they lay down to sun themselves!

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

Thanks Maxx....I thought I was right. However since I joined the forum I am learning so much.

 

[M To The Maxx]

D'Angelo N Va. :

Thanks Maxx....I thought I was right. However since I joined the forum I am learning so much.

NP. Although I should mention that sometimes if a brown egg laying hen will lay a monster sized egg it could be white. That doesn't happen very often but it happened to me a couple days ago and to a couple other people on BYC.​

 

[Kim_NC]

I just love that chipmunk look so many EEs have as babies.