Easter Egger club!

[Peepers4Piper]

Gorgeous girls everyone!

 

[mymilliefleur]

Gorgeous girls everyone!

Thanks!

 

[duluthralphie]

Here is my favorite EEger.

I know she is far from the prettiest bird I have or have seen here, but she is a sweetheart.

This is the one we call "the ICU baby".

 

[Angie16hearts]

Beautiful eggs!! ^ LOVE the color! Question: how come you have them point up?

GOOD EYE!!


I never caught that.. I know why I did in my picture.

I use my grandkids water color pens to mark the date they were hatched on the fat end.  I figure if water colors are safe for kids to suck on they should not hurt the eggs.

When I took my picture it was for craigslist to sell them so I turned the eggs upside down so I could use the picture forever on craigslist.

Now the question is why did mymilliefleur have hers upside down!>!!!

I'm a newbie, even though I come from a long family of farmers. However, they have all passed. I did do it to look pretty but had no idea it's a no no. How come? I'm really interested! Especially because I have a few I am hoping to go broody. My bantams, When that time comes I will do more research but had no idea they shouldn't be faced up quite interesting!! Please give me details and my rock lays almost a round egg. How do I lay hers in container? I feel like a dummy

 

[duluthralphie]

I'm a newbie, even though I come from a long family of farmers. However, they have all passed. I did do it to look pretty but had no idea it's a no no. How come? I'm really interested! Especially because I have a few I am hoping to go broody. My bantams, When that time comes I will do more research but had no idea they shouldn't be faced up quite interesting!! Please give me details and my rock lays almost a round egg. How do I lay hers in container? I feel like a dummy

I think they are "stood" pointy side down because the air sac is on the blunt end and with the blunt end up the air sac will not migrate.

I have a Black Australorp that lays a perfectly round egg too. I have no idea if I have it right side up or not and I do not care enough to candle it and find out every time... If I was going to hatch them I would candle them. Mine will be eaten within a week.

 

[Angie16hearts]

I think they are "stood" pointy side down because the air sac is on the blunt end and with the blunt end up the air sac will not migrate.

I have a Black Australorp that lays a perfectly round egg too. I have no idea if I have it right side up or not and I do not care enough to candle it and find out every time... If I was going to hatch them I would candle them. Mine will be eaten within a week.

I also have a black Australorp. She's still young. 16 weeks, when did your lady start laying? I love ours she's actually my favorite! My lap lady. What a calm good personality !

If I wanted to save my EE eggs to hatch with a broody. How would I store them? And how long can I store them with out them going bad? I have a EE rooster and 4 EE's among many other breeds. I only want to breed the single comb EE. I would use my bantam and I assume it wouldn't be tell spring.

 

[Angie16hearts]

Here is my favorite EEger. I know she is far from the prettiest bird I have or have seen here, but she is a sweetheart. This is the one we call "the ICU baby".

She is pretty and the sweeter the better! I would take sweet over pretty any day! She could grow prettier after her big girl molt.

 

[Angie16hearts]

Here is a picture of our EE rooster[ he has black spots on his chestIMG]https://www.backyardchickens.com/content/type/61/id/6649176/width/200/height/400[/IMG]here is another pic of him with a few hens the one on left is a EE but I don't want to breed her cause her comb, she lays off white eggs my others are single comb. They lay blue/ light green eggs those girls will get a new picture tomorrow.

Had to share

the top one Lucy lays the off white. She's the one I won't breed even though she has a great personality!

 

[redrooster99]

you know if you was to breed your boy to your EE i bet you would get light green eggs, from the pullets, because your boy has the pea comb which i believe is closely linked to the blue egg gene, and is dominant over single combed birds. so you would get some hens that laid colored eggs and had pea combs.

 

[Angie16hearts]

you know if you was to breed your boy to your EE i bet you would get light green eggs, from the pullets, because your boy has the pea comb which i believe is closely linked to the blue egg gene, and is dominant over single combed birds. so you would get some hens that laid colored eggs and had pea combs.

So then maybe Lucy would work? I will take pictures of the other hens tomorrow with a close up of combs. I would be interested to hear which hen you guys would suggest.