Questions About Colored Egg Laying Bantams!

[GunnyBun]

Hello all! I am looking to hopefully get some more chickens in the next year or maybe sooner. I love bantams every one that I have had has been so sweet and friendly and awesome companions. I want to get more bantams when I do get more chickens but I was thinking about branching out into the colored laying bantams. I read that there are Easter egger bantams and olive egger bantams along with some other varieties. I guess my main question is, is this an actual thing or was it some online click bait? I googled it btw so I’m not sure. I know that I have never heard of colored laying bantams before I decided to google it. I also wanted to know if there were any people here that had colored laying bantams and if they lay well and have the same characteristics as a normal bantam. Just some facts about them. Google didn’t really tell me as much as I feel like a person with experience can. For a reference the bantams I had before was one old English blue bantam who was the sweetest little thing ever, and a multitude of calico Cochin bantams who were absolute babies. They all were pretty decent layers as well. Which is one thing I will be looking for along with other characteristics.

Some pics of the bantams I had before, we called the frizzle rooster Feather Duster because he looked like a feather duster and my beautiful silver frizzle hen was Big Byrd she actually went broody and hatched three eggs and raised the chicks. It was hilarious because they were standard size chicks so they quickly outgrew their mama! I sadly didn’t have a name for my other ones cause you could not really tell the difference between them lol!

 

[GunnyBun]

For some reason Feather Duster’s pic did not load lol, anyways here he is in all his fluffy glory! The chickens were also in a molt at that time so pardon all the feathers

 

[sourland]

Yes, Easter Egger bantams exist.

 

[GunnyBun]

Yes, Easter Egger bantams exist.

Great! Would you happen to know a few members that have Easter egger bantams?

 

[Amer]

Yes, Easter Egger bantams exist.

Yep, and Ameraucana bantams were created from Easter Egger bantams.

I don't believe in Olive Egger Bantams though. There aren't any truly dark egg laying bantams. Anything labeled as an "Olive Egger Bantam" is probably somewhere between a bantam and a Standard breed in size.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

I was thinking about branching out into the colored laying bantams.

Cute birds you got there.

Just a quick note on top of what others have already stated, that Welsumer bantams do not lay the darker eggs that their larger standard size counterparts are reported to.

I used to have (and breed) bantam wheaten Ameraucana. The eggs were blue.

Unfortunately some of the Easter Eggers I've had laid cream colored eggs.. I'd personally hate to go the bantam EE route and have that end up being the case, if egg color was my goal. Beware of hatcheries selling alleged Ameraucana but not including their color variety. True Ameraucana always include their color variety and several hatcheries are offering them these days even in bantam size. That being said one of the fun things about EE is the variety in their looks since they don't have any standard of perfection to conform to.

Happy adventures!

 

[StacyT]

I’ve got several bantams including EE. I do have a couple that lay cream colored eggs but most lay blue/green. I purchased mine through Meyers Hatchery.