junebuggena
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Both. That's what I love about Easter Eggers.
Which do you prefer? Egg color or bird colors.
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Although I love my colored eggs I would have to say looks.. I love all of my poultry and just acquired some red golden pheasants which are just gorgeous! I'll have to get some picture once they've settled in. I've got around 20 different breeds but my most colorful birds would have to be my Seramas, Easter Eggers and bantams. Beautiful birds!
(I'm so happy my seramas just started to lay. They make the cutest fried eggs! can't wait to start breeding them and see what I get.)
(I'm so happy my seramas just started to lay. They make the cutest fried eggs! can't wait to start breeding them and see what I get.)
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I'm waiting for spring to get Serama hatching eggs...
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That's a good sized egg for a bantamSpeaking of colorful eggs, my EE Bantam just gave me one of these to stand out amidst all the light brown eggs of my other breeds. Guess she can do it all, pretty inside and outside.
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If ya' live close enough I might just send you a couple
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I was pretty impressed myself, it was very tasty too!
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Oh, great discussion!
I'm listening to a traditional Irish station on Pandora. The music is perfect for your question. Very cheery and campy and happy!!
I had the hardest time choosing chickens. My eyes are sensitive to bright colors, and with such a dry climate during summer and everything dying and turning the color of straw, I ruled out white chickens right away. We also really do love brown eggs. They're so charming, but a homesteader once said he did away with the fancy breeds because it ultimately came down to feeding his family, and the best hens for eggs tended to lay white ones.
But we only focused on brown egg layers. Yes, all those beautiful Pinterest photos played a role in our decision making process.
And once we settled on brown eggs, we had a kajillion options, so we shifted our focus to higher production layers. No fluffy chickens that get caked with mud and need to be blown dry with a hairdryer in the slightest rain, no feathered legs, and we didn't want a heavy bodied hen because of the extreme heat here.
My preference was a heritage breed, but even though we're zoned for twenty chickens per acre, and we have a couple of acres, the minimum order requirement for live chicks was more than we could handle and ruled out most options — and I wasn't ready to hatch them myself.
So I shopped feed stores, and was delighted when I discovered that one of the stores had just ordered a batch of Welsummers. They were on the top of my list. Their coloring is warm and cozy and very soothing to my sensitive eyes, and the Welsummer rooster is the Kellog's Cornflakes rooster. He's famous!
As the guy put each one in the box, I carefully looked them over and discovered that one of the little fluffers had a fainter arrow design on the top of his head and broken eyeliner, possible indicators of a hen gone wrong, AKA a rooster, which I dearly wanted.
And sure enough I grew myself a bonafide Welsummer rooster. He's gorgeous, or he was until the coyote attack. But he's regrowing his feathers and by spring he should be fully re-feathered and looking like a proper Welsummer.
My flock also happens to match the Hemp Shield stain on the old converted shed that is now their home. And they match me!!
But I do love the look of a mixed flock. The darker hens look like turkey vultures to me, and we have enough of those around here, but I'm loving Buffs and Wyandottes. When we relocate to a colder climate, I'm probably going to raise Buckeyes, a heritage breed that was created by an Ohio woman in the 1800s. I'm from Ohio, so there's that, and they're cold hardy birds with small combs, which limits frostbite.
There, question answered. It probably wouldn't have been so wordy if it weren't for the music!
I'm listening to a traditional Irish station on Pandora. The music is perfect for your question. Very cheery and campy and happy!!
I had the hardest time choosing chickens. My eyes are sensitive to bright colors, and with such a dry climate during summer and everything dying and turning the color of straw, I ruled out white chickens right away. We also really do love brown eggs. They're so charming, but a homesteader once said he did away with the fancy breeds because it ultimately came down to feeding his family, and the best hens for eggs tended to lay white ones.
But we only focused on brown egg layers. Yes, all those beautiful Pinterest photos played a role in our decision making process.
And once we settled on brown eggs, we had a kajillion options, so we shifted our focus to higher production layers. No fluffy chickens that get caked with mud and need to be blown dry with a hairdryer in the slightest rain, no feathered legs, and we didn't want a heavy bodied hen because of the extreme heat here.
My preference was a heritage breed, but even though we're zoned for twenty chickens per acre, and we have a couple of acres, the minimum order requirement for live chicks was more than we could handle and ruled out most options — and I wasn't ready to hatch them myself.
So I shopped feed stores, and was delighted when I discovered that one of the stores had just ordered a batch of Welsummers. They were on the top of my list. Their coloring is warm and cozy and very soothing to my sensitive eyes, and the Welsummer rooster is the Kellog's Cornflakes rooster. He's famous!
As the guy put each one in the box, I carefully looked them over and discovered that one of the little fluffers had a fainter arrow design on the top of his head and broken eyeliner, possible indicators of a hen gone wrong, AKA a rooster, which I dearly wanted.
And sure enough I grew myself a bonafide Welsummer rooster. He's gorgeous, or he was until the coyote attack. But he's regrowing his feathers and by spring he should be fully re-feathered and looking like a proper Welsummer.
My flock also happens to match the Hemp Shield stain on the old converted shed that is now their home. And they match me!!
But I do love the look of a mixed flock. The darker hens look like turkey vultures to me, and we have enough of those around here, but I'm loving Buffs and Wyandottes. When we relocate to a colder climate, I'm probably going to raise Buckeyes, a heritage breed that was created by an Ohio woman in the 1800s. I'm from Ohio, so there's that, and they're cold hardy birds with small combs, which limits frostbite.
There, question answered. It probably wouldn't have been so wordy if it weren't for the music!
I would have voted "both" if that were an option. I love a multi-colored egg basket and beautiful birds. In fact, I have decided to embark on a project to get just that! My goal is to create speckled/mottled birds with a variety of base colors, fluffy faces, large bodies, early rate of maturity, and a variety of brown/blue/green egg colors. I only keep a small (6-7 hens) flock, so I don't expect to make rapid progress or create a new "real" breed. But it should be fun! I'm starting with (hopefully - some will be new additions as baby chicks this spring) a SS rooster and SS, RIR, Lemon Cuckoo Niederheiner, and Easter Egger hens.
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