Which Breeds Should I go with?

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This is copied from Meyer's website. Rainbow refers to feather colors, not egg shell colors.

All Female Rainbow Layer Assortment Day Old Chicks
Rainbow refers to variety of chicks, not egg color. You are not guaranteed a variety of egg colors with this assortment.


How are the EE, to any EE owners out there?

I personally have not had any EE from Meyer. People often think that EE's are a breed. They are not. There is no standard (SOP) that defines an EE. We can't agree on a definition for what actually makes an EE. They can be any color, shape, or size. They can lay any color of an egg. They might or might not have muffs, tuffs or beards. They can have any type of comb and any color of legs. There are no typical behaviors. Since there are no standards asking the general question what are EE's like is similar to asking what chickens are like without specifying breed.

Meyer has its own flock of EE's. That specific flock will have tendencies. If you can find someone who has had EE's from Meyer their answers will be meaningful to you. But if people got their EE's from Cackle, McMurray, Ideal, or some other hatchery or from people that made their own EE's the answers are not going to apply to the Meyer EE's any more than they will to chickens in general.

This is not a rant against EE's. I made my own by breeding for certain traits. Mine all laid blue or green eggs. They were all mottled. Practically every one went broody. They laid a lot of eggs. None of his applies to EE's in general because most EE's don't have these traits.


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Also sounds like the EE run the same as Meyer's Green Queen; very diverse. We got one of them and ended up with a black/gray laced, hopefully she lays green eggs when her maturity comes (9 weeks or so)

 

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She has been a good surprise. I have way more pictures of her sleeping on my lap than I have of her doing anything else. She trills and purrs at me constantly. We have quite the love affair going on .

lol, my neighbor has an appenzeller spitzhauben, which I'm thinking will looking slightly similar to the houdan