Easter Egger Chicks are a delightful and unique addition to any backyard flock. Known for their colorful eggs, which range from olive green to turquoise blue and even rose or brown, these chicks bring diversity and charm to your coop. Easter Eggers are loved not only for their beautiful eggs but also for their calm and friendly temperament, making them a perfect choice for families and beginner poultry keepers.
These chicks are adaptable to both heat and cold, making them well-suited for the climates of Arizona and Texas. As they mature, Easter Eggers develop a wide variety of feather patterns, adding visual interest to your flock. Their dual-purpose nature means they are not only excellent layers, producing 4-6 colorful eggs per week, but they are also large enough to be raised for meat.
Care and Habitat:
Easter Eggers thrive in a variety of environments, from free-range setups to smaller backyard coops. They are excellent foragers and love dust baths to keep their feathers clean. With their hardy nature, they are perfect for hot climates like Arizona and Texas, while still tolerating colder weather.
Egg Production:
Expect 4-6 medium-sized eggs each week in stunning shades of blue, green, or brown. Their egg color variety makes them a favorite for adding some visual appeal to your egg basket.
Easter Eggers are a fun, easy-to-keep breed that adds a splash of color to both your coop and your egg basket. Their calm demeanor and hardiness make them ideal for families and first-time chicken owners. Ready to bring some vibrant personality and color to your backyard? Add Easter Egger Chicks to your flock today and enjoy a rainbow of eggs in your basket!
FAQs - Baby Chicks
We offer both sexed and unsexed ("straight run") chicks. Unsexed chicks have a 50/50 chance of being male or female. Since it takes 6 months for chicks to start laying eggs, we recommend ordering extra to ensure you'll have enough laying hens once they're grown and laying eggs. We also sell birds of various ages, including juveniles, adults, laying hens, pullets, and roosters. View our available breeds here ... For custom orders, please contact us.
No, we do not vaccinate our flock or baby chicks. We do not recommend for small flocks to be vaccinated. We constantly monitor this with our poultry vet to ensure our birds are healthy and robust. We are tested yearly for diseases as NPIP participants and customers can be confident that they are receiving healthy, happy chicks from our farms. If you would like to learn more, we have article covering Mareks disease. Should you desired chicks to be vaccinated, it is offered through our customer service team at $1 per bird.
Did you know?... They don't crow till about 12 weeks at the absolute earliest, most later than that.
Couple options for roosters...
1. Use him for food for the family, maybe you have a hunter in the family that could help. Often there are families that will buy or take the rooster for meat for their family.
2. Once hes older than four months old, Pratt's Pets (Glendale location) will purchase them from you for $10 per. If they're younger than four months, the Stock Shop will accept them if they have space.
3. You could also post them in the Arizona Backyard Chicken group on Facebook to rehome him. Just have to be VERY careful with your wording. Rehome, sale and wording like that is not allowed by FB.
4. Another app called MeWe you can rehome/sell there in the Arizona Backyard Chicken group but not nearly as many people in the group.
To join the group on MeWe: https://mewe.com/join/arizonabackyardchickens2
Definitely options out there. Hope this gives you some ideas. 👍😁🍻
Our available chicks and eggs are always updated on our website. You can find the next available chicks here or contact us to curate a flock with you.
The locations of our farms we are generally able to provide chicks and hatching eggs year around.
We offer local pick up for grown hens, see options available for local pick up.
All of our baby chicks, ducks, geese and other products will be shipped to you. Our baby chicks and breeders are at our Texas farm and will require to be shipped.
Though the journey may be different than a local pickup, our proven shipping process ensures your chicks arrive just as healthy and vibrant.
We also stand behind our practices by pioneering an industry first... protection for your chicks and investment in us with our guarantees including:
- 48-hour live chick guarantee upon arrival115% store credit for any losses (yes, we give you MORE than you paid!) OR
- 100% refund to your original payment method for any losses*See policies for further details
The good news is and has always been, no matter where we personally reside with our birds, our goal is to support and provide access to poultry.
That is why we breed for heat tolerance among many other decisions we tailor toward the Arizona community and hot weather locations because 95% of our birds support families in Arizona and hot weather states.
Why do chickens go to the beach?
To collect their EGG-shells