Baby Easter Eggers Chickens & Easter Egger And Production Red Day Old Chicks Summers Acres

The easter egg chicken is different because they have a full beard under the beak rather than a tuft and have a tail rather than rumpless and do not have pure color types.

Origins easter egg steps. Day old easter egger baby chicks. In the coop 3 4 square feet per bird is ideal to ensure they have space to avoid picking and crowding. Easter eggers are good layers laying 200 280 medium to large sized light brown green blue or pink eggs a year.

As they grow the chicks may develop scissor beakcross beak. Easter eggers are sweet docile and as their name implies they lay colorful eggs. This means that the top and bottom beak do not align and normally gets worse as the chicken ages.

Why wouldnt you want at least a few easter eggers in your flock. Easter egger sold as baby chicks only minimums not sexed 3 female 3 male 1 total of 3 birds to ship seasonalshipped feb thru september maximum of 25. Easter egger chickens are a childrens favorite due to the colorful eggs they lay from olive green to turquoise blue.

Baby chicks are just hatched and are carefully sent to you from a professional hatchery. The easter egger breed is known for having an inherent genetic beak issue. Like their eggs these chicks will grow into adult birds that vary widely in feather colors.

The severity of this genetic issue differs and normally happens in 1 out of every 100 chicks. And if amazing feather and egg color wasnt enough easter eggers are also extremely docile and heat and cold hardy. Great for family friendly flocks these chickens are good layers of colorful eggs that can range from olive green to turquoise blue and occasionally rose or brown.

Youll receive eight baby chicks. Easter eggers while not a purebred have become a backyard favorite. The true pure ameraucana chicken has a tail full beard and comes in pure color types.

Theyre docile birds and are heat and cold hardy. Cackle hatchery breeding program objectives for the easter egger chickens are to produce chickens with a wide variety of feather colors patterns and feather combinations of colors with a full beard under the beak and high egg. Easter eggers dont require as much space as some chickens might since they are rather small.

If you choose to free range your flock easter eggers do well foraging.