The EE braggers thread!!!

[SunnysideupstateNY]

Haha twist my arm!


Rosie is the light brown one on the left, she lays the "pink" eggs. Thats the best picture I have of her as an adult with the puffy cheeks!
Going clockwise, Rinny lays a blue green egg, duck lays a darker green egg and has given me double yolkers a number of times.
Buddy is the BA roo, I heard australorps layed a light brown "pinkish egg" as well, so maybe I will get offspring that lay the pink color! I don't know what Rinny and Duck's babies will lay. (Can you tell I'm plotting a hatch?!)

 

[showbarnmom]

Now I can't wait for mine to start laying!!!! Squee!!!

 

[CherokeeFlats]

Now I can't wait for mine to start laying!!!! Squee!!!

Me too... I'm looking forward to pretty eggs in the morning.

 

[CherokeeFlats]

Haha twist my arm!


Rosie is the light brown one on the left, she lays the "pink" eggs. Thats the best picture I have of her as an adult with the puffy cheeks!
Going clockwise, Rinny lays a blue green egg, duck lays a darker green egg and has given me double yolkers a number of times.
Buddy is the BA roo, I heard australorps layed a light brown "pinkish egg" as well, so maybe I will get offspring that lay the pink color! I don't know what Rinny and Duck's babies will lay. (Can you tell I'm plotting a hatch?!)

Beautiful Eggs!!! I cant wait for mine to start laying. I've never had colored eggs before. So excited

 

[OldChurchEggery1]

You all are tempting me to collect some eggs to hatch

I have my EEs, 1 black Am pullet, and 1 silver Am pullet in with my "birthday hatch" cockerel. He's a bit of a mystery to me- I only had black Ameraucanas and a few EEs and to the best of my knowledge he came from the black Am pair, but he's white. So I figure he's recessive white. As he's gotten older some of his hackles and saddle feathers have turned a bit yellow-tinged but I think it must be sun damage because he wasn't like that in early fall. Anyway, he won't give me much variety plumage-wise but he will serve his purpose to add a bit more on the egg color side of things since I have some EEs laying green rather than blue. I am going to use my yellow-legged EE cockerel over the black and silver Ams since he's liable to produce something interesting over the silver at least. He hatched out of a brown egg so I plan to just reserve his "talents" for those ladies laying a clear blue egg. However, I promised to myself not to hatch anything 'til March so I'll have to resist the temptation of all this hatch talk...for now!

 

[bellaleah]

uh oh, maybe i should get a dozen chicks then, instead of just 8. i won't keep a rooster, too noisy for our neighborhood, and with my two young daughters i don't want to take a chance on getting a nasty one. so, i think maybe 12 would be a better choice. the woman at the feed store said to build a coop with 2 square feet for each chicken. does that sound right to all of you? and only one nest per three hens. what do all of you prefer for the stuff you put on the floor and in the nests? sawdust or hay? and can you put gravel down for their outside fenced in area? we have a wet yard in the spring, we live in maine, so we were thinking to build up an area with gravel, is that safe? thanks , julie

 

[Flowerbh]

Here's my new batch I set last night. All EE, including the banty eggs who will have daddy's EE genes.



Willow

Ok, so I absolutely love your eggs. This is my goal....to have eggs like yours!!!! Please tell me what breed chickens you have!!! Right now I have white, brown, green and coming soon is terra cotta, and hopefully blue and I just hatched an Isbar for mossy green and some turkens for large greenish/blue eggs. What breed gave you the egg third from the bottom on the left?

 

[Kassaundra]

uh oh, maybe i should get a dozen chicks then, instead of just 8. i won't keep a rooster, too noisy for our neighborhood, and with my two young daughters i don't want to take a chance on getting a nasty one. so, i think maybe 12 would be a better choice. the woman at the feed store said to build a coop with 2 square feet for each chicken. does that sound right to all of you? and only one nest per three hens. what do all of you prefer for the stuff you put on the floor and in the nests? sawdust or hay? and can you put gravel down for their outside fenced in area? we have a wet yard in the spring, we live in maine, so we were thinking to build up an area with gravel, is that safe? thanks , julie

I think 2 square foot per chicken is to small, especially considering you are from Maine and your chickens could be confined in the coop for long periods of time through winter.

 

[Flowerbh]

uh oh, maybe i should get a dozen chicks then, instead of just 8. i won't keep a rooster, too noisy for our neighborhood, and with my two young daughters i don't want to take a chance on getting a nasty one. so, i think maybe 12 would be a better choice. the woman at the feed store said to build a coop with 2 square feet for each chicken. does that sound right to all of you? and only one nest per three hens. what do all of you prefer for the stuff you put on the floor and in the nests? sawdust or hay? and can you put gravel down for their outside fenced in area? we have a wet yard in the spring, we live in maine, so we were thinking to build up an area with gravel, is that safe? thanks , julie

You may also look into the Deep Litter Method for keeping your coop clean. You can find it on this website. Yea, that is too small for each chicken. If they free range you could get by with like 4 square feet/chicken, but if you keep them in a coop or run some books suggest up to 10 sq feet per chick. Just think of a hen at adult age would take up at least 1 square foot just standing still. At 2 sq ft that doesn't give them any room to walk around in. Nest boxes....you could go with 1 per 4/5 hens. If they are like mine, they all want the same nest anyway and will either share or stand in line....it is so funny. The other nests are right next to them and they won't use them! I use wood shavings in my coop. (Not cedar!!). If your floor will stay dry, a lot of people use hay. Just don't let it get wet and mold. Mold will kill chickens. On the run, I have one section for sand and ash so they can bath in it....in the main section, I use shredded leaves...but they don't last long....so I usually just keep adding them. (They don't get wet so I don't have mold.) At cleaning time, I just the old shredded leaves in my garden. Anyway, good luck! Chickens are such fun!

 

[shadow rabbit10]

Who cares about the attendants' happiness ?  Seriously if you are buying  chickens,  they are your responsibility, you purchase them, will feed and care for them not a sales person. I don't give my business to jerks.

When I say they are not happy about it, I mean they sometimes can be uncooperative and such. I don't really care what their deal is, but I would want to pick my birds, not have them pick whatever because they are in a bad mood.