Hi, one of my hens is in the process of hatching some eggs. I’ve been breeding with the intention of having a wonderful mix of different coloured eggs from ‘mutts’, otherwise known as Easter Eggers!
I’m are now on about generation 4 and getting some amazing coloured eggs! The original breeding stock came from quality breeders and are a mix of Araucana, Orpington, Marans and Sussex.
The last hatch (so same generation) have just started laying and we have a wonderful mix of blue, cream, dark brown (not pure Marans colour though), olive green (just incredible!) and an interesting, almost purple colour. The most wonderful egg basket you can imagine!
I am happy to get pics if there is any interest. DS ate the eggs I was going to take a pic of this morning!
Price - €5 / chick + €1 / week. Can be without heating around 5 weeks in this weather so €10 at that point (1 August).
Delivery possible - in Bergerac / Perigueux area for minimal cost.
Reservation possible. I’ve seen at least 6 chicks but I think there are more! Colours mainly grey / black (some with copper highlights) / white (speckled).
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Thanks for your interest. Absolutely devastatingly I lost most of my flock last July to the neighbours dog so I can’t help, I’m back to mid brown and pale blue after 3 years of breeding for the wonderful colours I had for 2 weeks before the massacre! I had breed from pale cream through blue to bright green and avacado!
Hello and happy new year. I was searching for easter eggers and found this website. I wish I had known about this website sooner. Our family moved to France 2 years ago and we are starting to feel settled in and would like to raise chickens and of course when I asked my kids, which chickens do they want, the immediately said the one with the colored eggs. @toryroo this is an old post, please let me know if you are selling young easter egger hens or know anyone. I’m in the herault region but happy to travel.
Hi, since I bred my own it is much easier to find coloured egg layers. Our local jardinerie sells them ready to lay in the spring as do Jardiland, although more expensive. You want Marans for the chocolate coloured, Olive for the green and Azur for the blue. If you want to go the egg hatching route look online on LBC. Pure blue egg breeds are Arucana (these are a bit tricky if new to hens) or cream legbars. The green you get from mixing blue and Marans. The blue and green found in shops are mixed with Leghorns making a good laying, friendly bird.
I do get that having 3 boys and a boy cat! I loved my girls, need to work out what I’m going to do in the spring about new chooks (Mr Fox got all of ours in Autumn).
Sorry to hear that. Similar thing happened recently to our neighbor’s flock, he lost almost all of of his chickens due to hunting dogs. He had it mostly enclosed but I guess the dog(s) jumped over the fence. I’m thinking of building a full enclosure that I can move around but it is easier said than done.
I SO wish I’d listened to advice about coop / henhouse building! I (I use that term loosely) built a ‘temporary’ A frame thing that’s a pain to clean out, make any changes ect. Nearly 10 years later it’s still working Seriously just build a walk in shed that you can walk in to clean easily, secure easily, attach nesting boxes to easily ect.
I don’t want to hijack the thread about Easter Eggers but as some have mentioned henhouses I thought I’d share a childhood memory of my parents keeping hens. If memory serves they were called Rhode Island Reds (?).,My father built a henhouse like a small shed, probably about 6’ x 4’, which he mounted on wheels. The end where the hens went in and out there was a detachable mobile hen-run. So early morning every week or so, he would move the hen-run then move the hen house and re-connect it to the hen-run before opening it up and letting the hens out. The hen-run was fully enclosed so protected the hens from predators.
@mike313, this is the dream. I started drafting the mobile coop already and ready to start on the build but it’s been too cold this week. After I’m done with the coop and I still have the ambition, I’m going to work on a mobile run. I’m excited about this but my partner doesn’t think it needs to be mobile and I’m overcomplicating things, he might be right. What do you think, did your family get any benefits from it being mobile?
I think they felt that the hens benefited from having a fresh patch to pick over and kept them from getting bored and also from getting messy as they were moved before the ground turned muddy as I’ve seen happen with some fixed runs.
The enclosed run was introduced after a fox killed about a dozen hens.
Seriously just build a walk in shed that you can walk in to clean easily, secure easily, attach nesting boxes to easily ect.