Cackle Hatchery Easter Egger Chicken

Description

Easter Eggers are great chickens for backyards, chicken coops, larger chicken houses, and for raising as free range chickens. The Easter Egger chicken originally came from Chile in South America, discovered by the Araucana Indians. Easter Egg chickens 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. Cackle Hatchery "Easter Egger" breeding program objectives 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 production of colorful egg shells. The color of their egg shells vary from a pale blue to dark blue egg, various shades of green eggs, and a few light brownish/pink eggs. The meat is delicious and it has a taste similar to quail. We do not offer a specific color variety of this breed; however we do breed for a wide variety of colored feathers and egg colors. In contrast, the true pure Araucana chicken is rumpless (tailless), has a small curling tuft of feathers next to each ear and come in different pure color types. The true pure Ameraucana chicken has a tail, full beard and comes in pure color types. The Araucana chicken and Ameraucana chickens have a number of different color patterns being worked on all across the USA and are being shown in poultry shows.

Features

• Poultry Show Class: Miscellaneous Class
• Weights: Hen: 5 1/2 lbs, Pullet: 4 1/2 lbs, Rooster: 6 1/2 lb, Cockerel: 5 1/2 lbs
• Purpose and Type: Egg laying and Ornamental, Production
• Egg Shell Color: Green\Blue\Pink\Multi
• Egg Production: 200-280 eggs per year
• Egg Size: Medium-Large
• Temperament: Active
• Gender Accuracy: 80-85%
• Fertility Percentage: 60-75%
• Broody: Setter
• Mating Ratio: 10 Females to 1 Male
• Roost Height: 4 to 6 feet
• Country of Origin: United States
• APA: No
• ALBC: Not Listed

Specifications

• Breed: Easter Egger