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Here's 'Junior', our one and a half year old Dominique hen.

Hi, A few months ago, we hatched four of our own Easter Eggers. We crossed our barred rock rooster with our EE hens and got four barred EE. I took a good look at them a few days ago and realized that one of them doesn't have a beard. She has wattles. Can anyone explain beard genetics to me? I...

I would say that's a pullet. My EE cockerels has red, developed combs by the time they were feathered out, and she still isn't red or even close to as developed as a cockerel would be.

I would thank my chicken. What would you do if your rooster laid an egg?

The top chick looks just like my Easter Egger I hatched a few months ago. If all of the chicks have little fluffy beards like the first chick, then I would say they are all EEs. Hopefully they will give you some colorful eggs!

Ah, okay, that makes sense. I will probably wait a little longer and will definitely wait until nighttime to give her the peeps. Thanks to everyone who replied!

My BO, Peanut, has been broody for three days now, and refuses to quit. We don't want her sitting for 3 weeks on eggs, all the while practically starving. She hatched eggs once before and very rarely left the nest for food and water. If we bought a couple chicks from the local feed store and...

The egg color depends solely on the egg color of the parents. If you bred your EE yourself then you probably know the colors that the parents produce? -If you breed a brown-egger to another brown-egger, you will get a brown-egger whose shade of brown is somewhere in between the shades of the...

I don't see any pointy feathers or huge comb/wattle development, so I would say you have a pullet!

Do you let your chickens free range? The only thing I can think of is that they found a more desirable nest elsewhere, like under a bush, etc. The same thing happened to me last year before I found a nest of 20+ eggs under a pricker bush.

I thought the SOP for Ameraucanas was a sky blue egg? That would make your hen an Easter Egger rather than an Ameraucana.