Easter Egger™ Chicken

The “Easter Egger™” chicken originally came from Chile in South America, discovered by the Araucana Indians. 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 Easter Egger 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. 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 production of colorful egg shells. The color of their egg shells vary from pale blue chicken eggs to dark blue to various shades of green 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. 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. The Easter Egger™ chickens are great chickens for backyards, chicken coops, larger chicken houses and for raising free range chickens.

Breed Facts

• Poultry Show Class: Not Applicable
• Weights: Hen ——-5 1/2 lbs
  Rooster—-6 1/2 lb
  Pullet——4 1/2 lbs
  Cockerel—5 1/2 lbs
• Purpose and Type: Egg laying and ornamental; Production
• Egg Shell Color: GreenBluePinkMulti
• Egg Production: 200-280 eggs per year (estimates only, see FAQ)
• 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
• TLC: Not Listed
• Breeder Farm Source: Hatchery® Poultry Breeding Farm has been developing our bloodline/strain of production type of Easter Egger™ Chickens since 1971.