What is your favorite color of eggs?

[TinyRaptorDodos]

I forgot that Prairie Bluebells were a breed! Are their eggs really almost robin egg-colored?

I’m not sure yet! She’s about, I want to say 5-6 months? So she’ll start soon!
She’s one of my laying girls rather then show girls so I don’t have many pictures of her… she’s hard to catch anyways
I do believe they do though, based off of pictures I’ve seen

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

My friendliest chicken is an Easter Egger named Cutie. Her egg is sage green with greyish spots. She's the chicken that likes to sit between my feet when I go outside and relax in a lawn chair. (Usually because if I'm eating something chicken friendly I'll sneak her a goodie when the others aren't looking).

But all my EEs are friendly. even Spooky warmed up to us, despite the fact that she was the most flighty out of our original six in this flock. Spooky has some issues. Her hormones go bonkers in the spring and she dominance mates the lower birds on the pecking order. Makes a weird attempt at crowing. Lays lumpy or holey eggs if I don't keep up her extra eggshell treat every day. She's my loose cannon. But she likes my toddler, the wildest one in the family, and follows her and lets her pick her up. Gets in fights with my daughter's favorite. Go figure.

My third EE, Nutmeg, hatched here. She is definitely my favorite. She snuggles he neck in the crook of my elbow. She likes to perch on my foot. She doesn't lay blue or green, she lays a cream egg. She is flighty if I'm up and walking around but comes to see me if I'm sitting. The egg she hatched from came from my sister's flock of EE and Mosaics. The mosaic egg color is cream so that interfered with the blue genes, but she's my only cream egg layer so I like to see that anyway.

They have widely differing body types. Cutie I'm almost certain has creeper genes, she has such short legs. Her beard is so big! After she moults that I have to trim it so she can see.

Spooky has a lovely long tail, a wide body and lovely fluffy butt feathers. She's my second largest chicken. Her peacomb is floppy and it jiggles around like a turkey snood, which I think is funny. Her face is always grouchy lookin.

Nutmeg has a neat look. She is fibromelanistic, has a black beard with a white (silver) breast, and a gradient of speckles, lacing and barred feathers that end in a black tail. She has such a narrow body, I'm glad her eggs are small. There's no consistent look for my EE but that's the nature of a handful of quirky, loveable mutts.

Our Easter Eggers have their own personalities, too! It even changes. On some days, the flighty ones will let me pick them up. On other days, they all run from me!

On the topic of chicken personalities, I find it funny that some of the pullets like to run up to each other and act like they're going to fight. Our Blue Marans do it a lot, but they mean no harm. They're basically best friends.

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

I’m not sure yet! She’s about, I want to say 5-6 months? So she’ll start soon!
She’s one of my laying girls rather then show girls so I don’t have many pictures of her… she’s hard to catch anyways
I do believe they do though, based off of pictures I’ve seen

She's definitely pretty! Be careful the eggs you see on the internet, though. I know a lot of the blue egg photos are enhanced to look more blue, sadly.

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

Our Easter Eggers have their own personalities, too! It even changes. On some days, the flighty ones will let me pick them up. On other days, they all run from me!

On the topic of chicken personalities, I find it funny that some of the pullets like to run up to each other and act like they're going to fight. Our Blue Marans do it a lot, but they mean no harm. They're basically best friends.

Oh my goodness Easter egger personalities I had three but now have two, Salt Pepper and Garlic, an owl got Salt though. Salt, my grey EE, was very nervous and sassy, didn’t like new hens and wouldn’t get near people, Pepper, my black EE, is will not get near people either but she’s also very “I’m my own chicken no need for a flock” she will completely ignore my flock and go off alone, she’s the only hen I had that’s back wasn’t torn up by my old rooster and had officially made my Silkie roo terrified of her, hopefully only for now. Then Garlic my white and brown EE is so friendly, she likes being held and LOVES being fed snacks and will make my rooster move out of the way when it comes to food.

Oh! I do have one more, I forgot Wolf qualifies as one she’s my Ameraucana (hen) Lavender Orpington (roo) cross and she’s pure black with both muffs and a beard and beautiful curved neck feathers, shes a bit sassy to other chickens but SUPER smart, my rooster will get on her and she will just dump him off, once she leaned forward and dumped him off forwards and then another time dumped him off the side, again my roo is a silkie so he’s pretty small.

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

She's definitely pretty! Be careful the eggs you see on the internet, though. I know a lot of the blue egg photos are enhanced to look more blue, sadly.

I used to do photo editing, I can see the difference I wouldn’t say Robin blue but still rather vibrant for a chicken egg, but I’ve also heard of people who bought a prairie but she laid brown eggs… that would be upsetting but as long as it’s an egg it’s fine with me

 

[Ascholten]

strange how its the flighty nervous ones that get hit by the owls hawks, youd think they'd be the safest since they are the quickest to panic run and flail.

Aaron

 

[TinyRaptorDodos]

strange how its the flighty nervous ones that get hit by the owls hawks, youd think they'd be the safest since they are the quickest to panic run and flail.

Aaron

I thought that too! She wasn’t mine at the time, I sold her due to her attacking my newer hen and I was told a few days later she was found without her head which is generally signs of an owl if I remember properly, that or it was her golden retrievers. I wonder why that is, maybe they freeze up? Or panic too much to find a proper hiding place?

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

Oh my goodness Easter egger personalities I had three but now have two, Salt Pepper and Garlic, an owl got Salt though. Salt, my grey EE, was very nervous and sassy, didn’t like new hens and wouldn’t get near people, Pepper, my black EE, is will not get near people either but she’s also very “I’m my own chicken no need for a flock” she will completely ignore my flock and go off alone, she’s the only hen I had that’s back wasn’t torn up by my old rooster and had officially made my Silkie roo terrified of her, hopefully only for now. Then Garlic my white and brown EE is so friendly, she likes being held and LOVES being fed snacks and will make my rooster move out of the way when it comes to food.

Oh! I do have one more, I forgot Wolf qualifies as one she’s my Ameraucana (hen) Lavender Orpington (roo) cross and she’s pure black with both muffs and a beard and beautiful curved neck feathers, shes a bit sassy to other chickens but SUPER smart, my rooster will get on her and she will just dump him off, once she leaned forward and dumped him off forwards and then another time dumped him off the side, again my roo is a silkie so he’s pretty small.

Pepper almost sounds like my Cream Legbar pullet (the one in my avatar) named Hazel! She's definitely the loner. Pretty sure she only thinks about foraging, because she doesn't care at all what's going on around her. She's also very "I'm my own chicken no need for a flock" except that she still wants to be around our Cuckoo Marans. They're best friends, basically.

 

[Ascholten]

the panic might be it, when there is a hawk arond mine quickly slink under the boat or duck under the little I guess you could call it walkway they made behind the bushes.

the chickens have learned how to run very fast behind those trees, but any hawk or something trying to fly down on them is going to get all caught up in the branches while they slither out the other side, pretty smart of them IMO

although they don't show at the top very much at all, and the water is kind of murky I hope that hawk don't figure out i have a tilapia pond now and want to fish

Aaron

 

[Ascholten]

I thought that too! She wasn’t mine at the time, I sold her due to her attacking my newer hen and I was told a few days later she was found without her head which is generally signs of an owl if I remember properly, that or it was her golden retrievers. I wonder why that is, maybe they freeze up? Or panic too much to find a proper hiding place?

Why would an owl take the head off and not the whole thing or at least munch on it a bit? I know owls like to try to swallow their prey whole when they can but didn't think they would leave it behind unless scared off.

aaron