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[Illia]

You'd get small, feather-shanked, orange birds with a lot of black pencilling (assuming your EE is the typical coloring) that lay light greenish olive colored eggs. (assuming your EE lays blue eggs)

Really, it depends on your Easter Egger.

And, I'm no goddess. . . Just someone who loves to talk and do chicken stuff.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Well these are all hatchery birds and the EE 's lay green or blue green.

 

[Illia]

So, I'm assuming they're brown with black here and there, yes?

 

[Chicken Rustler]

I thought only TRUE Aracauna (sp) layed blue and EE's layed green.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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More like orange with some black.

 

[DIYSeattle]

Did I say something wrong about someones chickens? If I read it right I said something bad? I am in favor of heritage breeds and even though I may get more eggs from crosses I wont and dont have crosses.

Im in Seattle, Maple Leaf area, as well as a few others and Kenmore isnt but a few minutes away. Rainwolf and I have met for coffee and later exchanged eggs and other stuff as we are pretty close to each other. It wouldnt hurt to have some new resources close by.

Perhaps those of us in the Seattle area can meet up one afternoon or evening or something. I cant make it to the meetings that are outside the city most times. If I am correct there are about a half dozen people in the north Seattle area arent there?

 

[Illia]

No, Ameraucanas lay blue.

And some EE's lay blue, too. Remember, some hatcheries actually carry the stock of which our Ameraucanas originated from. . . . They're the original mutts we brought over from Chile. Of course, hatcheries have now crossed them out so much, but still, some are a little more true to the original "Quechua" breed.

And, some Araucanas don't lay a good blue at all, and thankfully some Araucana breeders will fess up and tell you that - One really good breeder up in Bellingham does it for the body and show qualities, not egg color, so even hers are on the green side at times.

Easter Eggers, being mutts, can lay blue or green or olive green, and of course, brown too. (Which nulls them from being called Easter Egger, as it means a bird who has the blue egg gene but is not an Araucana or Ameraucana. . . But, they're still EE's if they came from a hatchery and lay brown eggs to me, because they're basically just the offshoot of breeding too many production layers into their original blue egg laying EE's.)

As a last note - My only hatchery bought Easter Egger hen lays light brown eggs. . . But still has the body type, plumage color, and muffs and beard of an Easter Egger.

 

[Illia]

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I don't recalll such. . . . I have some heritage breeds, but, I'm not anywhere near you, so that nulls me out.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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I didn't notice anything and there is no concern about saying anything about my chickens. I know they are all MUTTS.

 

[ReiMiraa]

oh i Charge $5 per dozen and $3.50 a half dozen. couldn't keep up this summer in production vs sale..... mine are free ranges (majority of the time, unless i see predators or like now, its winter....) fed average chicken chow $14 for 50 lb in my area.... fed leftovers from the fruitstand. they love corn, but they prefer rainier cherries over bings, they eat them first then the red cherries last.....

yeah i like diverse, my goal is the rainbow egg cartons but also a productive but awesome looking flock..... what breeds are ones most ppl normally do not want??? i like most, but never getting turkens again, too ugly and my bantm silky hen quit laying 2 years ago, but she goes broody well.....


honestly the egg prices are just to cover the cost of feeding them, if i was really keeping track them chickens got me a few hundred in the hole.... i think it would be many generations before they pay themselves off.....

or if i charged more per dozen... but this is a good point till more people jump on the local, fresh, free range wagon over organic. organic chow for 50 lbs costs over $30 and feeds stores do not really sell it,....