The EE braggers thread!!!

Thanks for starting this thread Katy!  I LOVE my EE's - I've got them in LF, bantam and even some that carry the silkie feathering gene.  Got 'em with all different colored feathers, different colored legs, and different colored toenails - some with single combs, some with rose combs, some with pea combs.  They lay eggs that are small and large, blue, green, pinkish, and brownish - collecting eggs is always a surprise.  Each bird is unique, and thats what I love about them!

Here's my roo "Blue", hangin' out with his ladies, and the second pic is Hawkeye and Dotty:

I have a few with some mixes too!

Squirt is ee/cochin cross



Angel was a total accident, she is ee/serama cross and has the most bizzare comb I have ever seen but she is soooo darn cute! She lays pink eggs



Sage and saffron came from ideal last year. Sage lays a light blue egg (lighter hen) and saffrom lays mint green eggs


ee/cochin cross cockerel currently looking for a new home along with another younger cockerel who is identical to him


Esther came from eggs I got from another byc member, she turns her head away from the camera everytime I try to take her pic!

Very pretty birds!

I just got mine less than a month ago and they aren't laying right now, so I have no idea what color to expect.

Not sure what color to call this bantam hen, she's almost a metallic silver in real life, with bright red eyes. She looks like a falcon when she perches on my arm.


Here's my bantam rooster. He's molting right now, so his tail looks awful. Actually, the day after I took this picture, all his tail feathers fell out, and now he's got a funny bald butt. He also doesn't crow at all.


Here are two chicks out of this pair, about 10 weeks old now. The one in front is definitely a pullet, and I was told the other was as well, but it's looking more like a rooster I think. That one has a crippled foot, but gets around ok and is like a little puppy. When I am feeding or cleaning pens I let him out and he follows me like a little dog.


Here's a closeup of the cripple-footed one. He's such a sweetie! I'm really sad that he's a rooster, that gives me three roosters and three hens.

My very first EE, from almost 10 years ago. She laid a khaki brown egg.


And the start of my second flock, 2 years ago. A friend gave them to me. Out front is Caramel. She lays a green egg.


I'm up to 7 EE hens now. I think they are my favorite breed.
Some of their  offspring's pretty pullet eggs

I love love love my EEs.  I got my originals from hinkjc, and even tho I sold some of them, Ive kept some of the core "herd" and have them running with my wheaton Ameraucana.  Im hatching some of their eggs, and the chicks are so big and robust.  Big aqua eggs, all of them. 

Love em!!!!

Isn't it funny, they're called mutt chickens, yet so many of them resemble each other.  I'll have to get a good photo of my three girls, they look a lot like several posted here!

Ok, I'm the worst chicken photographer in the world, these photos were taken yesterday, sorry for the blurs, they just don't stand still!  Esmerelda is the worst, she just won't face the camera!

Esther:



Esmerelda, from the back, it's the only photo that came out of her:



And finally HennyPenny:



All three of them shut down in mid-September, no eggs since then.  They are the best feathered-out, however, after the molt, I'm hoping they'll be the first to restart laying.