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Thanks for the warm feelings. The other three (Astrid, Ruffnut and Sparkle are still doing fine, so I guess it was something unique to Heather.

R.I.P. I went out to feed my girls this morning and only three came rushing to the gate. Heather wasn't among them. A short search found her curled up in the corner of the run, like she was asleep. Alas, she was not asleep. She had passed, I assume peacefully from her position and condition...

What her lineage is is anyone's guess, I got them from Meyer, and hatcheries don't usually keep family trees. At least not for mutts like Easter Eggers. Maybe for their specialty versions, but not the regular ones. They are barely 13 weeks old, none of them have really developed significant...

Here's my three newest EE's. Hatched August 13 this year: This is Heather. Ruffnut, And of course, Astrid. Gwen chose a chicken too ("Sparkle") but her's is an SLW, not an EE.

Our newest three (One is an SLW). They arrived just this afternoon. :love

OM. I have got to et some photos of Robin posted, they could be twins!

Ohh! She looks just like my Robin. Does she have a red breast?

Ditto. When my first set of Easter Eggers started laying only Muffins' eggs were green. Robin layed a yellow egg, Braveheart's was pink. Glinda turned out to be an Australorp and her eggs are tan. Ol' Red (My production Red) lays a brown egg, Nut, a Cuckoo Marans' is a dark brown, My other...

Perfectly normal. While every now and then you'll get a hen that lays year round, most chickens go on hiatus once the days get short.

Yipee!! Did you squeal when you found it?

In December? TSC? Really?? Wow. I use chick starter for the first few weeks (as recommended) then flock raiser for the rest of their lives with ground oyster/egg shell on the side, letting their natural instincts decide when they need it or not. That way I don't have to worry about which ones...

Tell me about it. I have seven.

Thought so. Thanks.:thumbsup

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the ear tuft gene dominant? IOW, 1 gene=tufted chick, 2 genes=dead chick.

Most hatcheries don't sell true Ameraucanas. Some do, MyPetChicken.com is one.

Well, if it's the egg color that decides whether it's an Olive Egger, at what shade does an EE become an OE? Because Muffins is starting to lay some rather intensely green eggs!

I have seven EEs and they lay a full rainbow: Blue, green light blue, cyan, even pink and orange/yellow. Like I said, Usually has a blue egg gene. Not always. :) The two on the right are from my Marans and my Production Red, the rest from my EEs. Remember, the brown shades are not in the shell...

What debid said. Your best bet is to somehow keep separate the eggs fertilized by each cock, see what colors each one's offspring lays. If it were me I would choose the one whose offspring lay a mixture of colors, not just blues and greens. But that's me.

Of course. If both parents were leghorns the offspring would be leghorns as well, right? The same applies to EE's. But then 'Easter Egger' is not breed but a mixture of breeds (usually possessing a blue egg gene, but not always) so what qualifies a chicken as an EE is much broader with them...

The only shortcoming to that is (unless you are or you have access to a genetic engineer) how do you tell what 'egg genes' he has? Outside of coaxing him into laying one, that is!