Rumpless chickens

Chicka-Dee · **Joined:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:12 am **Posts:** 1194

Does that mean you don't have any left?

Hens and Hobbits · **Posted:** Fri Oct 25, 2013 6:08 am

How did you achieve your olive Easter Egger?

Chicka-Dee · **Joined:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:12 am **Posts:** 1194

To my understanding a brown & blue make an olive

So maybe a Barnevelder crossed with an Aracana might do the job [smilie=a_goodjobson.gif]

Mrs McDonald · **Posted:** Fri Oct 25, 2013 10:00 am

The rumpless birds have all gone, but to a breeder, so for anyone wanting rumpless their chances have improved, not diminished, in the long run

I have several Easter Eggers advertised for sale, and three types of Easter Egger breeders chosen for next year. I have the "Skye Blue Crew", an "Olive" trio and a green egg quad that I am trying to achieve autosexing with. Whether my plans and nature aline, only time will tell.

Olive can come from mixing the blue and any darker egg, but I had a pink hue in the flock too. I hatched a large number of birds this year, but refining them now.

Hens and Hobbits · **Posted:** Fri Oct 25, 2013 12:49 pm

Nice muffs on the black EE, Mrs. Mc

Mrs McDonald · **Posted:** Sat Oct 26, 2013 6:44 am

Thank you

The birds in the photo are still young and will develop more.
I hope to take some photos of my EEs as adults - and their eggs - in the coming months.

Chicka-Dee · **Joined:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:12 am **Posts:** 1194

So how old are the ones you have in your photo Mrs Mac?

What colour eggs do those ones lay?

Cheers
Chicka-Dee

Mrs McDonald · **Posted:** Mon Oct 28, 2013 6:53 am

The oldest birds would be about five months (could lay any day now but might fill out a bit first) down to the youngest would be at least 3 months. No eggs yet, but I peek around each day looking. I nice couple that I sold birds to from this batch are very happy with their sizable blue eggs from two pullets they bought, so some are laying, but not the ones in the photo.

Chicka-Dee · **Joined:** Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:12 am **Posts:** 1194

Mrs McDonald wrote:

The oldest birds would be about five months (could lay any day now but might fill out a bit first) down to the youngest would be at least 3 months. No eggs yet, but I peek around each day looking. I nice couple that I sold birds to from this batch are very happy with their sizable blue eggs from two pullets they bought, so some are laying, but not the ones in the photo.

So do you have some birds left for sale that lay Olive & Green eggs?

The black Chookie in the middle of your photo looks like a black Aracuana. She would lay blue eggs wouldn't she? What colour eggs does the White & Cuckoos lay?

Cheers
Chicka-Dee

Mrs McDonald · **Posted:** Tue Oct 29, 2013 8:30 am

Generally speaking, if the Easter Egger (mixed breed, part Araucana) has a peacomb then you should get the blue colour which shows up as anything from sky blue through to olive green tint on the egg shell. All the birds in the photographed pen have pea combs. As it turns out, the black birds did produce darker eggs in the last generation, so I am hoping to get olive from the black birds - I have kept a trio. They (the trio) also have feathered legs - no idea where that came from, but the kids voted for feathered legs.
The whites I have kept a trio of, hoping for sky blue, the cuckoo - I'm guessing green but if the pink hue of the Plymouth Rock comes through the egg could be very dark.
Until they actually produce eggs, I can only speculate and say things like "generally" and "probably" - nature will have the final say

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