Easter Eggers

My 3 EE's are really beautiful, but very skittish and flighty. I had them since little chicks they stayed in my bathroom for 5 weeks. I thought they were suppose to be friendly but i love them anyway.

I love my easter eggers they are funny there so noisy and they like to explore. They come in pretty colors and patterns, and they lay an arrange of colors eggs mine lay ether blue or green eggs. my easter eggers are at the top of the pecking order they are really friendly to people they come right up to you to check you out. I would suggest this breed to anyone.

After I lost my entire flock of RIR's on...of all nights halloween...to a raccoon the size of a medium size dog, I modified my Eglu coop for safety, moved it closer to the house and decided on a sweeter breed as I now have a grandson who is at the house 4 days a week. Although my RIR's were great egg layers, even the hens were on the nasty side at times and I was concerned about my grandson getting hurt. After dealing with chicks in the house (never again!) I got some chicks that were labeled as Amercuanas but I'm pretty sure they are EE's.
I put a heat lamp in my Eglu and the chicks did just fine in the spring weather, after I created a ramp from an old shelf that I glued chopsticks on for walking, I let them outside during the day as it got warmer.
I'm expecting eggs in the fall if they start laying at 24 weeks like my RIR's. What I love most about the breed is that all of them look so very different. Once my RIR's were grown I couldn't tell them apart, not with my EE's. Scout is my only rooster, not planned but I like having a rooster around as they will sacrifice themselves for the safety of the flock and he takes his job seriously. He has what looks like hashtags on his wings making him look like a military officer...hence his name. He was the first to eat out of my hands and although he is still skittish if I go to pet him he is the calmest rooster I ever had...my RIR rooster and I would have stand offs every few weeks where I would have to open a can of whoop *** to show him he could not attack me. Monet is my largest hen and seems to be vying for the job of head hen...her colors all run together like a Monet painting...hence her name. Pepper is black and white and looks more like an eagle than a chicken, Phi looked so much like a pheasant I thought they sold me the wrong type of bird, Rosey has a beautiful rose/peach colored breast, Abbey is my smallest, very plain looking until recently, now she is a stunning black and white and a true beauty.
What cracks me up is the way they follow me around, even if I have my dog on leash with me (and he's a bird dog and takes one look at them and thinks...lunch!). Its very easy for me to get them in the coop in mid day if I will be gone after dark...something I could never do with my RIR's. Although the egg color was not a consideration for choosing them I am looking forward to seeing them. I like the fact that they will lay during the winter, something my RIR's only did in their first year.
I chose not to clip the wings on this breed as I free range them everyday and want them to have the ability to get away from predators any way they can. They have practically removed any weeding time around the house although next year I will put my herbs out of reach as they just loved my basil and chives.
Still young, but I enjoy this breed so much more than my RIR's. Highly recommended.

First time chicken owner here, where I am allowed 6 hens and no roosters by local ordinance. For the most part, I wanted to have each one a different breed and/or color, and I wanted the friendliest layers. I got 3 cochins in different colors, 2 easter eggers (in what I thought would be different colors), and a barred rock. I suppose easter eggers, not being a true breed, vary quite a lot depending where you get them from. Mine came from Cackle Hatchery through Farm & Fleet and I hand raised them from 2 days old. My easter eggers make eye contact with me and will eat from my hand, but they are very skittish. They do not want to be pet or held and they are nearly impossible to catch. They look like hawks and try to fly much more often than the others. The average friend / neighbor doesn't think they aer chickens. They look like I captured some weird wild birds and threw them in the run. I am glad I built a run with more height than average, because they like to take advantage of it and get really high on the branches I put in there. They seem quite smart, and if I were allowed to let them free range, I am certain they could take care of themselves. I am not getting eggs yet, so maybe I will be happier when I do get those blue or green beauties, but so far they have not lived up to the hype on personality. My barred rock is my darling and does all the things I was hoping for: running to greet me, enjoying petting, and sitting in my lap.
One other note, you can't really guess what color an easter egger chick will grow up to be. I picked out one that was all blue/dark gray and one that was all buff / cinnamon colored, and now that they are in adult feather, I can't tell them apart. They both have cinnamon / buff necks with blue / gray bodies.

I have one full grown all white easter egger, and 4 wyandottes. My easter egger seems to have no idea the wyandottes are also chickens. Also she is incredibly picky when it comes to weather, she's constantly too cold or too hot, but she's lived 2 years now, so I guess she's tolerant, just whinny. We got her another white EE and a chipmunk EE this spring, and so far they haven't realized they are the same breed, though at least they don't fight.

We picked up our EE's on February 28th and had our first olive colored pullet egg on July 4th. so they have started laying right around 18 weeks of age - a lot younger than many breeds of chickens.

I don't name, or make any effort to tame/make pets out of our birds Despite that, I have one EE pullet that insists on hopping onto my shoulder whenever I'm in the coop. It is easy to see how people who do make pets of their chickens could fall for this breed. The only reason I might not purchase them again is that they are small bodied and definitely not a dual purpose bird.

We raised "Olive" from a day old chick, and I have to say- we were sold from the start. As a wee chick, Olive was picked on some, even though she was the biggest of the bunch, but she grew out of that, and learned to hold her head up high when the bully chick came around. Pretty soon, she started putting herself between the bully (whom we now know was a "he") and his new target.

When the chicks were all a little older, we started trying to get our dog (who has never been around chickens) acclimated to each other. Well, it wasn't long before Olive was riding around on Lucy's back- Lucy will still run out to the coop and put her nose to the wire, waiting- Olive will run up and do the same. It's really cute! (I should note here that we the work we did with Lucy was over the course of weeks and months, and because she is at least part "bird dog", we will never leave her unattended with the gals. But I am very proud of Lucy, and she is very good with them- attended.)

Olive is super aware of what is going on over her head, and will alert the other chickens when something flies by. She is the first to come running when I call "chick-chick" for breakfast, and still purrs instantly when I pick her up. What's more, when our friends kids come over, Olive hops right up, and will happily sit in laps for hours, just humming and cooing away. If there was ever a thing as a perfect chicken, I think we got her.

In short, I don't think we were quite prepared for how smitten we would be with Olive, but I can tell you that we will definitely be getting more EE chicks in the future. Now, I know that every hen is different, and there will always be those rare birds that are just special, and it doesn't seem to matter which breed they are when that's the case. But for us, it was Olive Gorgeous McLadyBeard who stole our hearts.

Oh man I love my Easter Eggers,they are independent but obedient at the same time,Super friendly and easily trained due to their curiosity,this breed is prone to jealousy.My hen Cookie was very jealous once of four ducks that I was paying a lot of attention to,so much so,that any time they came near me,she puffed up her feathers and rushed them all the way back to the lake!XD then she would stand guard at my side.Good Layer's of large green to blue eggs.I recommend not putting these chickens near breeds that are pecky because they will have their beard destroyed!My EE rooster is Very Nice!

We ordered 11 easter eggers last year. They were super friendly and extremely active, and as they feathered out they were so colorful! Our dog got in and killed 10 of them, but we still have one gray hen left. She lays brown eggs, and looks like an owl. She's friendly, we can walk right up to her to pet her or pick her up. She's a great bird, lays about an egg a day, but she can "fly". Our chicken run is surrounded by an 8 foot fence and I've seen her flap her little heart out, up, and over that fence countless times.

I have two EE's. They are very curious. They are small and don't eat very much. They can fly very well. I love having them.

My EE's name is Big Mama and the funny thing is that she isn't a very big bird at all! If you hold your hand out in front of her legs, maybe give a gentle nudge, and she'll oblige to step up. She'll settle on your hand or on your arm and let you pet her. She loves running around in her pen and hanging out on her roost. She's always been very gentle, she's never tried to bite or scratch anyone. She's an absolutely beautiful color mix of brown and gold. We're currently waiting for her to lay her first egg, but we can't wait to find out what color it will be!

Initially my EE wouldn't come near anyone even though we hand fed her in her brooder. She has never been nasty, just aloof. The EE roo we had was just too noisy with the other roos and we gave them away. Our EE gives us an egg almost every day. We do sometimes get what appears to be calcium deposits on some of her eggs but that is just a cosmetic issue. I stopped giving her oyster shell and that seems to have fixed the calcium deposit issue. As time has passed she now is very friendly although slightly aloof still. Her blue/green eggs have nice hard shells and are fairly large. Like I said earlier, she gives us almost an egg a day. I recently purchased a few Bantam EE and their characteristics are the same. They are also slightly aloof and even though they arrived at 2 days old with 12 other chicks, they still only eat and sleep with each other. Apparently they realize that they are their own breed and prefer each others company. I really enjoy this breed and recommend them to anyone that would like a little variety in their egg basket.

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I got two almost 4 week old Easter Eggers at a poultry swap Saturday, It s their second day in the brooder with my same age Buff Orpingtons. They get along fine, except Maybealine is a darker color so the buff's pick on her a bit more. But Hedwig, is white, not so much as a difference. They are both pullets, I love their colors, I wish they were a bit bigger, then they won't be able to fly as high and run as fast, and in between 2 roads, we will have to clip their wings. The lady I got them from said she thinks they might be olive egg layers, but I really love them, and they are great little chicks! I dunno when they will get their combs, because all my buffs have their's.... Except for one.

We got ours from Atwoods just picking from what little we knew about the way the chicks were supposed to look like. They still had the box in the back they came in too, though the staff didn't know much about them. They are still teenagers but they are super friendly. Maybe because we handled them from the get go. Seems like if you start handling them at one or two days they are really nice. FYI: don't pull the raisin looking thing off their belly. It wont hurt them and will fall off by itself. All our birds are still alive and eating like fat kids at the ice cream buffet.

I have two EEs, and love them so much that I made sure I got an EE chick with my spring babies. They are beautiful birds, very unique looking with their beards and mixed colors. I swear mine get prettier by the day!!
The pea comb sure helps during the cold months! The eggs are the prettiest on my basket, and one of them keeps laying double yolkers.

They aren't the most affectionate girls in my flock (can't compare to an orpington!), but they still come running when they see me and eat from my hand.

The only issue is that they can be mean to new chickens. One of my girls always gives the new one trouble. Usually this resolves after a few days with no intervention.


I will always keep EEs on my flock!!!!!

We purchased our first five Easter Eggers--as so many people do--with the mistaken impression that they were full-blooded Ameraucanas. Our disappointment was shortlived, however, as they quickly proved to be fantastic additions to our flock. Their personalities ran the spectrum from the neurotic and flighty to the warm and cuddly, and their appearance was just as diverse. There's no trouble telling your birds apart if you have a flock of Easter Eggers! Over time, we learned of even more reasons to love our EE's--their small combs aren't prone to frostbite, their light bodies make them better equipped to evade predators, and they are very tolerant of our hot Kansas summers. The hens lay consistently all winter long, even when other hens quit laying entirely, and they lay large, eye-catching blue eggs that wow our customers. As an added bonus, they make the cutest baby chicks you will ever see! And the roosters--if you can have one--are a spectacular sight!

They are great birds but as I do not keep them in my house long enough they are not that friendly with ME anymore LOVE the rainbow eggs!

On New Year's Day at 6am I awoke to a LOUD bwok bwok bwoking outside my window. I'd fogotten to shut the coop the night before and my Easter Egger had flown her coop for some early morning free-ranging and encountered a cat. I sent the dog out to chase off the cat, then struggled to catch the chicken when my dog went after her for bonus points. That's life with my Easter Egger. Annoying, and hilarious. She has the most personality of all my chickens. All the children in the neighborhood love her best. And she's nice and calm about being picked up so small children can pet her. When she sees my dog she comes running and flies into my arms. Or at least she would if she were more coodinated. I usually end up with a face full of feathers. She always comes running when I come outside and jabbers at me. For all the excitement, I still love this bird.

I originally got two Easter eggers, two buffs orpingtons, and two welsummers as my first batch of chickens. With elimination of a few roosters, and addition of some more hens, it is now one easter egger, two buffs and three welsummers. Of all those, my easter is the friendliest, second is one of my buffs. My cheeps are now 10 weeks old, and originally my easter was NOT the friendliest. She ran from me and wanted nothing to do with me. Now that she is older and out in the large coop, with more room to roam, she runs to me and LOVES to be held. I originally reviewed the easter bad, but I guess I should have given her some time. I do not know anything about their egg production yet, since they are still too young.