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[newmarch2014]

Glad to know I'm not the only one with flighty easter eggers. My sister's easter eggers started laying at 24 weeks. Guess I'll have to wait another month or so.

I tell my pullets "eggs by Thanksgiving, or you are Thanksgiving". My kids think it's funny, so they told that to our cat and now insist we need to eat her because she isn't laying

OH my, harsh household lol. I do threaten them with a trip to my friend the processor, it didn't seem to hurry them any. My EE's are spastic freaks. I thought it would get better with pol....nope. I take solace in the fact that they scream just as loud when the rooster corners them....

They are ninnies. In the futureI will take a good old solid calm Buff Orp with a plain brown egg any day over those pretty colored eggs that come with all that drama.

 

[sideWing]

OH my, harsh household lol. I do threaten them with a trip to my friend the processor, it didn't seem to hurry them any. My EE's are spastic freaks. I thought it would get better with pol....nope. I take solace in the fact that they scream just as loud when the rooster corners them....

They are ninnies. In the futureI will take a good old solid calm Buff Orp with a plain brown egg any day over those pretty colored eggs that come with all that drama.

My EEs are flighty for sure, but they are perfectly quiet.

 

[the-bird-man]

of the 3 ee i have had one has been super flighty. she wont let me near her. if i look at her she goes running. she is nuts. and so many of them want to sleep with their head under another hen and other hens dont always like that lol. and the other ee that i have right now rarely sleeps in the coop. she likes it outside on the feed can. no matter what i do she keeps wanting to sleep outside, even with the snow and such. 2 out of 3 have been super sweet birds tho and they are quiet so that is nice

 

[newmarch2014]

Oh mine are quiet, till the rooster or I wants to touch them. Well except for the one that occasionally lets a bark out that sounds like an exact imitation of my Border Collie. They are looking to be solid layers though, the one skipped one day of 6 so far and the other has laid one every day for 4. I guess I will have to keep them....the Brahmas are still in question sigh.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

I always adore EE's I pick up at Cal ranch , they seem a bit on the sweet curious side. Th EE's I have gotten as dedicated crosses like SBEL's and Olive eggers from Ameraucanas and Marans are not as sweet and more flighty.

 

[Cynthia12]

So I went to Leland Mills this last weekend.
SUPER nice people to work with!
Their feed was a super deal- 20.00 for 100lbs for 18% layer mash. I picked up 150lbs.
This is my problem, the ducks waste most of it. If I had chickens to clean up after the ducks it would be ideal but DH is not convinced we need both chickens and ducks.
I thought the best use of it would be to mix it with water till it clumps then give it to them, like mush in the winter. if I have to......
However If someone wanted to buy 100lbs of some quality feed for their chickens .....you could get it here instead of having to drive to spanish fork ;-)
Anyone interested?

My brain is trying to remember if I know you, are you close to Spanish Fork? I live there, and I love Leland Mills. Love the mash. If you get it wet, you have to make sure that it is eaten quickly, and not kept in a container. It will go moldy pretty quick, at least in this heat. When they have the spilled mash around their feeder, I get the hose and barely wet it down..they love it! And no waste.

 

[the-bird-man]

Oh mine are quiet, till the rooster or I wants to touch them. Well except for the one that occasionally lets a bark out that sounds like an exact imitation of my Border Collie. They are looking to be solid layers though, the one skipped one day of 6 so far and the other has laid one every day for 4. I guess I will have to keep them....the Brahmas are still in question sigh.

i hear you on the brahma. they do develop slow. sure are sweet birds tho. i dont think mine is laying yet. its hard to tell as i have yet to catch one of my young girls laying. and they are not laying in the nest box ether so i dont even know for sure if i am finding all the eggs

 

[rcstanley]

My flaky EEs have got me thinking, how are cream legbars personality and laying-wise?

Maybe I'll trade out the EEs next fall. I justified the EEs by thinking they'll be laying while my current girls are molting, but with my luck they'll start laying right after the others are done

Speaking of molting, this will be my hen's first year molting. when do your birds start molting?

 

[newmarch2014]

I have had a bird in some state of molt for all but 2 weeks of this last 9 mos it seems. None with too hard of a molt, some with a quick and pretty one. My older girsl started when it was still pretty cold last winter, I was a little worried for one of them as she had some pretty bare spots. Now it seems to just be the younger ones getting in some more big kid feathers but it looks like a pillow fight happened in my run.

 

[sideWing]

My flaky EEs have got me thinking, how are cream legbars personality and laying-wise?

Maybe I'll trade out the EEs next fall. I justified the EEs by thinking they'll be laying while my current girls are molting, but with my luck they'll start laying right after the others are done

Speaking of molting, this will be my hen's first year molting. when do your birds start molting?

I have heard that they are descent temperament, but not friendly. I have a leghorn mix and they are not friendly at all. Not loud or mean, just not friendly compared to a BO.