The EE braggers thread!!!

[ChickyChickens]

What a beautiful boy!

X2!!!

 

[Toi-toi]

Hello all! I have a question for EE owners.
My EE girl is squatting so I'm guessing she is laying now. (She is 25weeks old)
I have 3 youngsters laying eggs right now. 2 Barred rocks and 1 EE.
I get 1 egg everyday since mid Dec. but I only see tinted pinkish brownish eggs.
So that means my EE lays not easter egg colored eggs or she is not laying yet?
She is squatting at least 3 weeks or so.

 

[Peep a Cheep]

Hello all! I have a question for EE owners.
My EE girl is squatting so I'm guessing she is laying now. (She is 25weeks old)
I have 3 youngsters laying eggs right now. 2 Barred rocks and 1 EE.
I get 1 egg everyday since mid Dec. but I only see tinted pinkish brownish eggs.
So that means my EE lays not easter egg colored eggs or she is not laying yet?
She is squatting at least 3 weeks or so.

I don't have an exact answer for you, but I can share my experience. I have three EEs. The first seemed to egg squat for about 3 weeks before I got an egg. The second didn't egg squat until AFTER I got an egg, but was hard-core into making nests in the bedding for about 2 weeks prior. My third laid her first egg on Sunday, and she has been squatting almost 3 weeks as well - the first week was little baby almost squats, the second week she'd squat as I approached but would then run away, and this past week she'd squat and stay long enough I could pet her if I wanted to (and Dolores never let us close enough to pet her)...The day she laid, her comb was the reddest of the red; though it had been getting redder for the last month. I have three others, a RIR and two Austrolorps. One Lorp and the RIR are laying, and both their brown eggs are slightly different colors, so I can tell them apart.

Hope that helps!

 

[skymama65]

She's being "broody", trying to figure out what she needs to do, and how to do it. As long as she's still eating and drinking, I'd give her a little more time (I likened it to my daughter, in the months before she started her first "time o' the monthlies"...moody & grumpy hormonal nightmare. It got better after...).

As for the "pinkish" egg, that could the color that one chicken will lay for you. As one of my gals hasn't started laying yet, I'm hoping I'll get a pink; I have a greenish-blue, a pale blue, and a greenish-brown (olive).

 

[dekel18042]

A couple of questions for you. Your getting an egg a day, right? Are the eggs you're getting identical or slightly different, different tint, size or shape? I'm trying to figure if one bird is laying every day or two are laying every other day, which happens. If the eggs are from different birds, often you might notice slight differences. I get some rounder, some longer, some more speckled, slightly different tints, etc.
If you can check your nest boxes often, that can tell the story. This week one of the pullets started laying. Initially I thought the layer was a different bird, but I caught the one in the nest box, and caught her leaving the nest box with the egg still wet so I knew and it wasn't the one I thought.
Eventually you'll figure it out.

 

[Toi-toi]

All eggs look pretty same... I think. Oh but I get a little bit white speckled one here and there. So I think at least 2 are laying.
My EE girl's face is not red as my barred rocks. So she might not laying yet, just practicing...

 

[Peep a Cheep]

My last EE (of the 3) finally started laying on the 4th, at 36 weeks!! Here is the new layer, Dolores:


Here is her egg:


And here are all 3 of my EE eggs, Olive Greenish (Dolores), Light green - but looks brown in this pic (Buttercup), and pale blue (Cleo)


Happy happy EE owner!

 

[bruceha2000]

Hello all! I have a question for EE owners.
My EE girl is squatting so I'm guessing she is laying now. (She is 25weeks old)
I have 3 youngsters laying eggs right now. 2 Barred rocks and 1 EE.
I get 1 egg everyday since mid Dec. but I only see tinted pinkish brownish eggs.
So that means my EE lays not easter egg colored eggs or she is not laying yet?
She is squatting at least 3 weeks or so.

You are likely getting one egg every other day from each of your Rocks, pinkish brown is standard for them. My guess is your EE is ALMOST there. I had one EE that started at 5.5 months, the other at 6 months. All my birds squatted for 2 to 3 weeks before they laid. Check her comb, it will get dark red. An EE can lay anything from pale ivory to brown to blue to green and everything in between. EEs aren't a recognized breed and thus have no standards, they are all unique! You will only really know if she is laying by:
- Getting 3 eggs in one day. It IS possible for one chicken to lay 2 eggs in a day. Some weird thing where one didn't move along fast enough or the second was released too soon. One of the eggs might have a weird shell.
- Seeing her get in an empty nest and exit one with an egg in it.
- Finding 3 distinctly different eggs - color, shape, texture. My guess is you will find 2 different eggs, with the EE's being the non pink-brown one.

I started with 2 of each of 6 breeds. My EEs were easy, one laid blue, the other green. The Ancona's were harder but one laid a pointier egg than the other THE FIRST YEAR, can't tell them apart now. The Black Australorps not too hard because the really big one lays a distinctly lighter brown egg than the smaller one. The Faverolles and Partridge Chateclers were a lot harder since their eggs are all about the same size and color. The Cubalayas - easy to tell from the others since the birds are about 2/3 the size of large fowl and lay smaller eggs but between them, not so easy.

She's being "broody", trying to figure out what she needs to do, and how to do it. As long as she's still eating and drinking, I'd give her a little more time (I likened it to my daughter, in the months before she started her first "time o' the monthlies"...moody & grumpy hormonal nightmare. It got better after...).

As for the "pinkish" egg, that could the color that one chicken will lay for you. As one of my gals hasn't started laying yet, I'm hoping I'll get a pink; I have a greenish-blue, a pale blue, and a greenish-brown (olive).

To whom are you replying, Toi-toi?? Her bird is NOT broody, it is just BARELY coming to point of lay. A broody bird is one that has been laying, stops and has a huge hormonal need to sit on a nest day and night to hatch whatever is under it, including nothing but nesting material.

And here are all 3 of my EE eggs, Olive Greenish (Dolores), Light green - but looks brown in this pic (Buttercup), and pale blue (Cleo)


Happy happy EE owner!

Isn't it nice that they are all different! Makes it so much easier to know which birds are earning their keep.

 

[sunflower4you]

And here are all 3 of my EE eggs, Olive Greenish (Dolores), Light green - but looks brown in this pic (Buttercup), and pale blue (Cleo)


Happy happy EE owner!

Me, too! Hooray for EEs!

It's really hard to tell from the picture, but I have 3 EEs and the same 3 egg colors as you. Light green, olive green, and light blue. Your picture is great!

 

[sunflower4you]

My last EE (of the 3) finally started laying on the 4th, at 36 weeks!! Here is the new layer, Dolores:

And I forgot to say what a fine looking EE! I haven't seen one that looks like this before. Her coloring has such variety she looks like a he!