The EE braggers thread!!!

[Moonchild]

Hello! Just wanted to show off Gyspy and Ginger my easter eggers, my olive egger raven,and my lavander ameraucana Iris

I LOVE both of these ladies!!! Beautiful!!!!

 

[gwenirish11]

Thank you Flower, Kassaundra, and Moonchild!! I love these ladies!!! Gyspy is my most favorite!! She's the really colorful one

She also has the most personality!! She is so social,happy, and silly!!!

Kassaundra they do look like hackle feather but she's indeed a hen...she's 6 1/2 months but she's squats like crazy and is getting ready to lay any day or has for the first time today. One of my ladies laid her first egg today it's either gyspy,ginger, or Iris....not quite sure who.....but it's a pretty little thing!

 

[Kassaundra]

That is an awesome blue egg, and so glad to hear her gender isn't in question.

 

[gwenirish11]

Good thing we know I know she is exhibiting hen behavior because I think I'd be paranoid after noticing the feathers...I never realized that..lol! But surely enough..no crowing and squatting right along with the other ladies!

 

[inthesticks]

Thank you Flower, Kassaundra, and Moonchild!! I love these ladies!!! Gyspy is my most favorite!! She's the really colorful one

She also has the most personality!! She is so social,happy, and silly!!!

Kassaundra they do look like hackle feather but she's indeed a hen...she's 6 1/2 months but she's squats like crazy and is getting ready to lay any day or has for the first time today. One of my ladies laid her first egg today it's either gyspy,ginger, or Iris....not quite sure who.....but it's a pretty little thing!

Wow!!!

lovely hens & one clear sky of an egg!!! Just lovely lovely lovely!

 

[gwenirish11]

Thank you thank you thank you!!! I must say today was a good day!!

 

[wife2abirdman]

I hope someone can either answer my question or at least guide me somewhere I can find the answer. I have an EE and an Ameraucana. My EE has been laying for the last two months and they are now med-large sized eggs. I don't know the real qualifications for eggs I just know she used to lay really small "pullet" eggs but now they are much bigger. The Ameraucana was close to laying but was not laying when I got her. All of a sudden a four days ago I found a large sized blue egg under the roosts. I have no other blue egg laying chickens, well I do but she is only 12 weeks old and the egg half her size practically. I thought it came from my EE, sometimes she doesn't get to the nest box in time, but then she laid her egg later in the day in the nest box. I didn't get another two blue eggs in the same day for the last four days, so I was thinking that maybe my EE just layed the two eggs, after all she is from a hatchery and they breed for eggs. I just went out there and there were two blue eggs in the nest boxes. Now here's my question, is my EE laying TWO eggs a day or can a 7 mos old Ameraucana start laying large eggs off the bat? Oh and the color is the same blue color I don't know if that matters or not.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Idk, but my hen just started laying also and her egg is very large, enough that i am a tad worried that it'll get stuck! Had a bit of blood the other day, so anything is possible! My other EE lays a regular large, and hers is blue not green so i know for a fact that the big egg is a pullet one.

She is also a large hen, i wonder if bigger hens = bigger eggs?

 

[flower]

wife2birdman Eggs are usually produced on a 24 hours plus some minutes daily. On a few occasions I have wondered if a bird that I owned laid two eggs in one day but that is not usually the case. Not to say that I could not happen, but it would be rare. And in the same vein, any bird could start laying a large size egg right off the bat. I think both of your birds are laying. Tints on eggs vary from time to time. Very dark brown egg layers lay a lighter shade at the end of their cycle when they about to take a rest.

 

[bruceha2000]

I hope someone can either answer my question or at least guide me somewhere I can find the answer. I have an EE and an Ameraucana. My EE has been laying for the last two months and they are now med-large sized eggs. I don't know the real qualifications for eggs I just know she used to lay really small "pullet" eggs but now they are much bigger. The Ameraucana was close to laying but was not laying when I got her. All of a sudden a four days ago I found a large sized blue egg under the roosts. I have no other blue egg laying chickens.... I thought it came from my EE, sometimes she doesn't get to the nest box in time, but then she laid her egg later in the day in the nest box. I didn't get another two blue eggs in the same day for the last four days, so I was thinking that maybe my EE just layed the two eggs, after all she is from a hatchery and they breed for eggs. I just went out there and there were two blue eggs in the nest boxes. Now here's my question, is my EE laying TWO eggs a day or can a 7 mos old Ameraucana start laying large eggs off the bat? Oh and the color is the same blue color I don't know if that matters or not.

Is it possible to lay twice in a day? Yes, though infrequent as I understand it. Sometimes a girl isn't QUITE ready to lay one day and hits the hay then might lay 2 the next. One early and one late. Or so I've read

Did you check only the one time today?

Is it possible for them to start with a Large? My EE experience (Ameraucana if you believe Ideal but I don't) is:
The first that laid gave me an XL double yolk and has laid L ever since.
Confirmed today that both EEs are laying. First day I got 2 green eggs. And they look to be the same color so I may have been attributing some of Persephone's first eggs to Andromeda. No way to know. Every egg has been a L since that first one so Persephone didn't follow the "start with a bang" pattern. OOOOORRRRR, I'm in the same boat with the "did one girl lay 2 today" boat. I doubt it though since my wife found the first 2 eggs by 10 AM this morning and they were both Ancona. I have a hard time believing one chicken laid 2 eggs between 10 AM and bedtime since at this time of year they are hitting the roost at about 3:45.

My Anconas started with Medium eggs and have worked their way up to L with the occasional X-Large.
The Faverolles started at Medium and have stayed there.
The Chantecler put out 1 small Medium and has laid Medium ever since. I don't THINK the other is laying yet since her wee little comb isn't very red. But I have had an egg I attribute to a Chantecler (not positive) every day for the last nine which would be downright good for a new layer.

The first Australorp started with Medium as well and is now up to a large Medium or small Large. And I have had two HUGE Australorp eggs this week so either Zorra started (she is bigger than Echo) or Echo just decide to work overtime on occasion. She's been a 2 days on, one off girl from the get go but I had 3 in a row starting on the 8th and the huge one was on the 9th. None on the 11th. But with only 16 days of laying, I don't know that a pattern is really a pattern.

Bruce