I absolutely love them! I live in indiana northwest and get them from chesterton feed and garden and you can even order them online. I got them at Rural King. Their address is P. My name is Melissa Fletcher. Hi Melissa Are you still raising these chickens that have lots of colors of eggs? If so, I am interested in getting some chicks that could produce colored eggs. Thanks Dave diamondgranchtex yahoo. Click on places that are close to you. They are very affordable.
I received 15 with an order that advertised a dozen, which was really nice. Meyer Hatchery here in Ohio has Easter Eggers. You can order as few as 3. My Pet Chicken Hatchery also has them. Jenks hatchery. We are in central Texas. Lost 1 in transit, but they arrived healthy Feb. Got our first egg at 17 weeks and have been blessed with many since! Received an Easter Egger rooster from a friend, no beautiful eggs but a beautiful coloration and personality with the cutest puffy cheeks!
My Easter Egger is so sweet and smart. She loves attention and crouches down beside me to be picked up and held. I live in Missouri and she has no problem with the winter weather or hot summer. She is orange with little ear muffs and a full tail. I have five Easter Eggers. They are quite lovely. They have wonderful dispositions and love time spent with you. They enjoy being held and having their backs rubbed.
They sing sweet songs when you are with them. Their eggs are beautiful either blue or green with pretty insides. They are quite hardy as well as I live in the Northeast. They also are very proud to give you eggs as they always join me for gathering. They respond well to praise. They also spend time with me first when I bring their feed.
Quite a good fit for a family hen. I love my girls! I put my coop close to my bedroom window so my two Easter egger ladies can sing to me in the morning and I can sing back. Absolutely love my girls. We have two Easter eggers, just ready to move out to their new coop. I have noticed however, they prefer greens i. Will sometimes not eat the worms?! Is this normal? Yes very normal. One of my older flocks avoids warms, another flock would scratch until they found some.
One flock from Cackle and one from TSC…. I have one EE. I keep the coop clean and feed the girls layer pellets and kitchen scraps. They free range and have oyster shell available. Any ideas? Thank you, —Dan. Please see our article on egg laying stoppages.
I have six Easter Eggers. Five of my girls have yellow leg. Fear not! Some of my girls have yellow legs and all of the eggs are a variation of blue. Each egg still feels like a gift from my little honeys — I hope you have a great experience with your girls! I have three EE chickens and they are very sweet!
Each one flies up and sits on my shoulders… one prefers to sit on my head-no joke. I have four EE that were hatched on St. You should consider feeding them a 16 percent layer feed when they start laying eggs. The season of the year is another factor that determines their egg-laying ability.
In winter Easter Eggers, just like other chickens, will lay fewer eggs or stop laying completely. The environment in which you are raising your chickens will also play a role in egg production. If their surrounding is stressful, they will not lay eggs as you would expect. But if everything around them is fine, you should expect more eggs from your flock of Easter Eggers.
Being able to know about Easter Egger chickens, you need to feed them a high-quality chicken feed. You may consider chicken start feed if your birds are still small to help them grow faster. At the same time, you need to give them treats such as mealworms, fruits, a few insects and so on. Be sure to keep your birds in a well-built and comfortable coop. Any type of chicken coop is fine for your flock provided that it can accommodate them.
Alternatively, you can free-range them if you have enough space in your backyard. When you take good care of your chickens, you will reap more benefits from them in the long run. How many eggs per year should you expect from Easter Egger chickens? Although the number of eggs per year depends on different factors, you should expect no less than eggs annually.
This is the number of eggs you should collect from your Easter Egger layers in one year. To keep your hen laying consistently, you need to feed her with at least 16 percent protein. On top of that, include oyster shell supplement to their layers mash to produce eggs with healthy shells. How long do Easter Egger chickens live? If you are an experienced chicken owner, you should know that most chickens live up to 8 years or even longer.
This is possible if you provide them with essentials such as a good diet, clean water, a conducive environment, and medication. Since Easter Eggers are just like other breeds of chickens, they also need your attention to live longer. Egg mystery. Replies 5 Views Oct 29, sqatkins. Large rooster mate small hen? Dreamtinyfarm Nov 5, Chicken Behaviors and Egglaying 2. Replies 14 Views Wednesday at AM Folly's place. Is there anyway to tell how many hands I have laying at this point?
Nov 1, cjweaver Dominique pullets becoming aggressive. Replies 7 Views Sep 12, Folly's place. New posts New threads Active threads Latest posts. Neighbor's chickens Latest: britinpa A moment ago. What Breed Or Gender is This? Is he a pure Barred Rock or no? They were bred in an effort to keep the blue eggs and eliminate a lethal gene common in Araucanas that kills chicks in the shell.
Finally we get to the Easter Eggers! They are a mix of different breeds that give you chickens laying blue to blue green eggs thanks to that Araucana blue egg gene.
Some of my favorite chickens are barnyard mixes, you can always spot the EE genes with those little poufy cheeks and beards! As much as I do love my heritage breeds like the extra fancy Appenzellar Spitzhauben or my favorite chickens, the Brahamas. Chances are you found out about chickens that lay blue eggs and you wanted them! I have a carefully selected impulsively chosen flock that lays a mix of blue, white, tan and dark brown eggs.
I had one girl that laid stunning speckled olive eggs but she disappeared one day and I still miss her. You will have variation in egg color with your EEs. The colors shift from very pale blue, to pastel blue to a slight green tinge and even a slightly purple color. Fun fact, egg shells are either white or blue! Olive eggs and green eggs come from chickens that lay a blue shell with a brown overspray. The darker the brown, the deeper the olive or green color. My olive egger was a Welsummer-Easter Egger cross.
A combo I plan on hatching next year with my EE girls and one of my Wellie roos. This is pretty cool for a few reasons. One, your flock just looks cooler if you have a mix of colors and patterns.
The main physical characteristic that sets Easter Eggers apart from other birds is the cheek poufs and beards. They make EE chicks extra cute and easily distinguishable from the others in the flock. If you have a mixed box of fluff balls check out my post on how to tell different breeds apart as chicks.
They stand out in the flock for the cheek poufs and the beards. As adults they look like they have very thick necks, almost like the necks are larger than the heads.
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