Easter Egger Everything You Need To Know About This Chicken
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2022
- Today we are going to be showing you everything you want to know about the Easter Egger.
The Easter Egger has gotten their name because different birds will lay different color eggs, specifically blue or greenish eggs!
They came about when people would cross an Araucana, or Ameraucana with another bird.
They are interesting birds that would be a great choice for your flock!
We will be discussing their egg-laying capability, temperament, health, and more.
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Ironically, I've owned barred rock, novagen and Easter Eggers, and the Easter Eggers have been the only ones to turn broody. On the other hand, I haven't lost any to predators. I've lost most of my barred rocks and some of my novagens. Yet somehow, the Easter Eggers are still going strong. Stay safe everyone!
I love Easter Eggers. I always have one or two. Right now I have three. And they all happen to lay green eggs. You just never know though, but they are very friendly, very easy to deal with, don't cause any problems. And I have never had one even think about going Rudy. I like the fact that they come in all different colors also. I like variety in my chickens and my eggs, so Easter Eggers are a good way to get that.
I love Ameraucanas and Easter Eggers! Just a note, the marketing department at some hatcheries call Easter Eggers Americanas (notice the tricky spelling difference). True Ameraucanas are a recognized breed while, as you mentioned, Easter Eggers are not, but rather a hybrid. They are both very cute, sweet birds as well as decent layers.
Interesting! Thanks for the info
True, purebred Ameraucana chickens are also quite a bit more expensive than Easter Eggers. So if a hatchery advertises ameraucanas/americanas, but they're pretty cheap in price, there's a really good chance they're just Easter Eggers.(I love our EE's btw. They're our best winter weather layers!)
What's even wilder is from what I read, Hoover hatchery's americanas (note the different spelling) per their website are crosses between ameraucanas and araucanas and since both those are considered the same breed in many parts of the world, they could call them araucnas in some parts of the world and it would technically be correct. That said, both are awesome breeds,10/10 would recomnend
But, how old when they start laying? I’ve got 2. They almost 7 months old now. Still no eggs!!!! (And no they don’t go cock-a-doodle do) 😂
@@debralabarge614 depends, the breed can be slow to mature and given we're going into winter they may not lay until spring
I have several of them, i love their temperments.
People used to color eggs for Easter. So colored eggs look like Easter eggs
I Love them! They are beautiful and so sweet!
My Easter Eggers are probably my favorite birds! The coloration (and variation!) is amazing!
Really what about their legs are all their legs green??? do they start that way from hatching or do they grow into it? I was given my Easter egg hen and cock which are very blonde and half green legs but now I have chicks in the yard and they all have yellow legs. You know my Easter has been brooding along with her.
I have 14 Easter Eggers and O love them all!
Thank you for your information
My Easter Eggers are independent. If they are picked on it doesn't seem to bother them much, like some of my other gentle hens. Love them!
I got 5 Easter Eggers four years ago, just lost my last two. They were good layers, and all would race to where we were splitting wood in hopes of finding grubs and so forth.
My favorite easter egger is dealing with impacted crop atm, which I have been fighting to get cleared. This chicken and my other favorite (my pullet born march 8th-9th this year) just have the best personalities, are gentle and don't try to take my fingers with the treats, and then just adore me to death. Love perching on me and getting scritches for days. I really hope she pulls through. My other 2 easter eggers, one is an elusive brat and another one has some sort of calcium issues where her bones are extra big, her nails extra extra long, and paper thing eggshells on jumbo sized eggs. Either way, first two I am not throwing in the soup pot as they have reached a more pet status with me.
May have been born and raised on farm life, doesn't mean I actually have the heart to do it myself, so chances are the rest will die from natural causes too.
My hens normally get a decent burial. The young roosters they hatch however have to be butchered. I have about 7 just now I have to catch up. I don’t love it, but there is no way to keep them.
@@lilolmecj My rooster turned out mean (black copper maran) and I am going to have to butcher him sooner than later so he doesn't lend his personality to my future chicks.
Update on my comment, my Impacted crop hen pulled through!
@@magstrid4295 glad to hear your hen pulled through! I haven’t dealt with that. I had a beautiful little Rosecomb Bantam rooster, meanest little thing ever. Fortunately he was about 8 Oz so didn’t do a ton of harm. I named him Little Bastard. I finally just got exhausted of having to always be on guard, he would run 50’ across the yard just to flog me. Hubby kindly took care of him. A full sized one would have to go sooner because they can really hurt you. Good luck.
papaya is the cure
@@Eugenia_Farms Actually, mineral oil on some meal worms (to get her to take the mineral oil) along with a gentle massage brought her back from the brink of death! Cleared it up in no time.
When i was buying chicks i knew i wanted easter eggers, sweet and lays colorful eggs, what more could you want? My 2 have not disappointed. Rosemary is by far my friendliest bird and will regularly hop into my lap. Parsley is not quite as affectionate, but she is still a curious bird who has an adorable poof of feathers on her head xD
My easter egger is high strung and nervous. I raised her with an Australorp, and she was always hiding under it. Now she is the most high strung one in the flock and hard to handle. She only picks on the bantam that is at the bottom of the pecking order, as she is the second to the bottom.
I love these videos! Keep them coming. We have a 6 week old Easter Egger. Can't wait to see her eggs.
Would love to see videos on the growth development of males vs females. We have a Barred Rock that could be either one right now. We wanted a rooster, but hard to tell if he's a hen.
I'll add it to the list
Like your videos
Lap Time! Mine were chosen so I would have a female emotional support hen. Pretty sure at 4 weeks we have them sorted, but I won't second guess for a few more weeks. I want a hen who is friendly and enjoys being petted and riding in a stroller. We are rural and they have outside foraging/dusting time daily. The local kids come to hold them, the more, the merrier. It's not a big deal here; and there have been inquiries about acquiring a single "house trained" hen. There isn't anyone over 60 here who doesn't remember having them as kids, and they're making a new resurgence. A lot of young families buying small flocks. Heck yes!!! If each family has three hens we bring down the egg industry as we know it! Compared to parrots, chickens are $6, not $6,000....and they provide an egg every couple days. They can learn to do tricks as well.
can you tell us more about the calanca and quechua chickens? I can't find anything about them!
I love in Louisiana and we have days in the summer that reach 98-103 degrees. Is this bird heat tolerant?
My first chickens were easter egger-silkie crosses, wonderful birds with beautiful eggs but unfortunately got the broodiness of their silkie parents.
OK, I did learn a couple of new things and I kind of skimmed through the video but I have an Easter egg, chicken and rooster that have green legs and since a regular chicken in my Easter egg have been booting together and now have chicks in the yard do not have green legs, but are very blonde Like the Easter eggErs I have I wanted to know if their legs would be green from birth or is it something they grow into?
I have one Easter Egger in my flock. I bought 3 in February and two were suffocated by the others in the brooder. So I bought three more and two more were suffocated and the last one those three was an interesting character!
He would get knocked down by the older chicks (whole different story that I will never repeat) but she would play opossum and just lay there. I would pick her up because she would look dead.
Well one day she must have knocked down and fell in the water and drown! She was plenty old enough to have not fell in the water!
So I only have one left!
But the good news is she is a sweetheart. At 5 weeks old she started flying up into my hand. I started giving her house flies and she knew I had her a snack!
She is now 7 weeks old and let's me pet her. I have two Golden Comets who are grow that fly up on my forearm for snacks, so start early training if you want cool pet chickens!
are they the same ones as green queen? To me they look alike so are they the same?
Do they get along with Buff Orpingtons
1:16 mark in video. This is the Anti American flag. The stripe colors are reversed. The real American flag has a white stripe under the blue.
bruh, should make an anti american flag more obvious, just looks like a traditional murica flag at first glance
Do y sale them?
I have an one!!!!
I bought 5 easter eggers last spring . not one of them lays blue or green eggs all brown. I'm not happy
The Doodle of the Chicken world!
What’s a kalanka and Quattros?? I wish you would have spelled it on screen
I thought an Easter Egger was the result of crossing a blue-egg-laying breed with another breed, usually a brown-egg layer
Excuse me but could be the same chicken breeds Diffent Colour Eggs
Excuse in the Netherlands the Nederlands Chicken breed Blue Eggs
Life of a chicken
Can Easter Eggers breed the same Easter Eggers?
I would pronounce those words as "oh-oh-sigh-ANN" and "oh-oh-sigh-ANN-in".
You did not mention life expectancy, which is the only thing I came here for!
Same as any other chicken.
@@nogames8982 not true, i.e the ISA Brown is around 3-4 yrs while a Black Australorp is around 8-10 yrs. the easter egger is more likely to live around 5-8 yrs.
Can you guys tell me how old the chick is before she starts laying ? I know this old post but hey. I might find out exactly what I'm looking for ! He he. ! Thanks !
@@oakleydavid7619 depending on breed, between 16-24 weeks. Smaller breeds typically lay sooner. Brahmas, which are large birds might not lay until six to seven months. The first eggs will be small, and called pullet eggs. I often gift those to families with young children because they are unusual. They just stay small for a few weeks.
Easter egg reference is video games? 😂
What’s the difference between
The ameraucana
Easter egger
Olive egger
True blue whiting
True green whiting
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Ameraucana is an actual breed, pure bred, lays ONLY blue eggs, will have a beard, muff and derives from the Araucana chicken from Chile (has ear tufts and rumpless, lays blue eggs). Easter Egger is a hybrid mixing other breeds with a blue laying chicken, Easter Eggers may not always have beards and muffs and not always lay blue eggs. Olive Egger is a hybrid crossing a blue egg layer with a brown egg layer. True Blue crosses a Ameraucana with a Leghorn chicken that lays white eggs. Only the Ameraucana and Araucana breed true, every time, the others are hybrids and you get mutts from them.
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Great info but PLEASE KEEP MUSIC OUT OF THESE DEMO VIDEOS. IT IS TOO MUCH FOR THE EARS TO HAVE TWO LAYERS OF SOUND - VOICE AND MUSIC, BOTH CONTINUOUS. Try listening to a series of your own videos on the receiving end of this onslaught of noise. It will stress you out. I prefer the soothing voice + natural sounds only. NO MUSIC!!!
Ugh! So much information, but this guys sarcastic sounding speech is so annoying. I just can’t finish the video.
The CORRECT pronunciation of COCCYX is: ‘cock-six’ NOT… “cock icks”. And OOCYAN is pronounced:’ooh-sigh-ann’ (ooh= same as the U in Uber) Also, SALMON FAVEROLLE… the A in Faverolle is pronounced the same as the A in fabulous.