The EE braggers thread!!!

[Hangtown Farms]

Oh that is a beautiful basket of eggs! I'm going to get some Ameraucanas this year for those pretty blue eggs! Yours look really blue! So many I've seen have been very pale, barely there or really more a pale green than blue. How do I know I'll get really nice blue ones?

if you are shipping eggs you can ask for photos before. you can do the same if you are having chicks shipped.
if you are picking up locally ask to see the parents and there eggs

 

[cheeka]

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I know, right??????? it's so cool!

Oh that is a beautiful basket of eggs! I'm going to get some Ameraucanas this year for those pretty blue eggs! Yours look really blue! So many I've seen have been very pale, barely there or really more a pale green than blue. How do I know I'll get really nice blue ones?

it's interesting, a kind of "illusion" the blue eggs look exactly that blue when placed with the brown, cream and green eggs. but if you stand them alone, or put them with a white egg... they look blue-green. if i stare at that pic long enough, the cream colored start looking pink.
thanks for the compliment, it sure does make me smile to look at them! for me, I had zero idea what color eggs I would get, mine are hatchery chickens, I'm stoked to have such nice and different colors... i'll have fertilized eggs available come Spring... i have 3 marvelous, handsome, good tempered roos all with varying traits, including one with feathered feet

 

[aoxa]

I know, right??????? it's so cool!  
it's interesting, a kind of "illusion"  the blue eggs look exactly that blue when placed with the brown, cream and green eggs.  but if you stand them alone, or put them with a white egg... they look blue-green.  if i stare at that pic long enough, the cream colored start looking pink.  
thanks for the compliment, it sure does make me smile to look at them!  for me, I had zero idea what color eggs I would get, mine are hatchery chickens, I'm stoked to have such nice and different colors... i'll have fertilized eggs available come Spring... i have 3 marvelous, handsome, good tempered roos all with varying traits, including one with feathered feet 

They definitely look more blue when placed with other eggs. I find the same thing. Makes for great pictures and an awesome table display

 

[flower]

I had zero idea what color eggs I would get, mine are hatchery chickens, I'm stoked to have such nice and different colors... i'll have fertilized eggs available come Spring... i have 3 marvelous, handsome, good tempered roos all with varying traits, including one with feathered feet

quote from Cheeka


Please tell up which hatchery. I want some new blue eggs !

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[cheeka]

I had zero idea what color eggs I would get, mine are hatchery chickens, I'm stoked to have such nice and different colors... i'll have fertilized eggs available come Spring... i have 3 marvelous, handsome, good tempered roos all with varying traits, including one with feathered feet

quote from Cheeka


Please tell us which hatchery. I want some new blue eggs !


they are from Murray McMurray. sold as Araucana. order contained 26 chicks, 14 "Araucana" (not a one was of course...) 3 cocks, 11 pullets, 6 BR pullets, and 6 RIR pullets. I had them all for the first several weeks, and picked the one's I wanted - I had a "partridge" EE as well, but lost her to a fox when she was 15 weeks

I love the barred EE's, so beautiful! I would like to get a BR roo, but I need to concentrate on adding ladies to the flock for the time being.

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[Bleenie]

Just wanted to share a picture of one of my girls... Is she still an EE if she lays brown eggs? It was confirmed today when my last batch of chicks hatched and 4 of them looked like her!

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Well, she's very pretty. The fact that she doesn't have the blue egg gene doesn't disqualify her from EEdom, but means she is lacking the most important trait (IMO) for EEs. Aren't we all hopeful that our EEs will give us blue and green eggs? Still, I'd trade her in a heartbeat for my splotchy hatchery silver laced Wyandotte who is grumpy and lays, at most, 2 eggs per week!

 

[Bleenie]

Two eggs a week!? Mine aren't hatchery and they lay better than that! You would expect hatchery birds to lay better since they're basically bred for production so the hatcheries can hatch.

Well, she's very pretty. The fact that she doesn't have the blue egg gene doesn't disqualify her from EEdom, but means she is lacking the most important trait (IMO) for EEs. Aren't we all hopeful that our EEs will give us blue and green eggs? Still, I'd trade her in a heartbeat for my splotchy hatchery silver laced Wyandotte who is grumpy and lays, at most, 2 eggs per week!

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Yes. We are pretty disappointed with the SLW, but I only have one, so very small sample size. Maybe she's just a lemon. My EE makes up for her though, usually laying 6 eggs per week and they are a very pretty blue-green!

 

[aoxa]

Yes. We are pretty disappointed with the SLW, but I only have one, so very small sample size. Maybe she's just a lemon. My EE makes up for her though, usually laying 6 eggs per week and they are a very pretty blue-green!

MY SLW Are super small! I can't even get over how small they are...

This girl here is 16 weeks old. Can you believe that?!