The EE braggers thread!!! - Page 627

Kassaundra - I am in love with Oreo, I really really hope one of my boys turns out looking exactly like him...he is SO handsome!

Illia - that is an awesome pullet!  What exactly is she, if you don't mind my asking....I know you have been playing with EE/Polish crosses and I am hoping to try for some of my own.  I LOVE the way they look with the beard/muffs and tophats!

She's Polish/Ameraucana x Polish/Ameraucana.

I play around with Araucanas and Marans and the sort too, but right now those are a tad young and funky looking, or older and in the OE thread.
 

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She's Polish/Ameraucana x Polish/Ameraucana.

 

I play around with Araucanas and Marans and the sort too, but right now those are a tad young and funky looking, or older and in the OE thread.
 

Illia since you have experience with EE/Polish crosses maybe you can answer my question. I have what I believe is an EE/polish cross chick and I am curious to know how soon I can determine gender with it. What should I be looking for to figure out gender. The chick is currently 7 weeks old. I need to get a picture of it to post here for gender guesses.

Depending on the parents, you can sex it by color, or you can also sex it by comb size/redness as well. Does it have cavernous nostrils or normal nostrils? Does it have a slightly spiky pea comb or no comb at all?

At 7 weeks old it should be sexable by color in most but not all cases, depends on the Polish parent.
 

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Depending on the parents, you can sex it by color, or you can also sex it by comb size/redness as well. Does it have cavernous nostrils or normal nostrils? Does it have a slightly spiky pea comb or no comb at all?

 

At 7 weeks old it should be sexable by color in most but not all cases, depends on the Polish parent.
 

Do you have pics of that???

Well, I have only one EE, and was hoping for it to add some fun eggs to my small flock of 9, but, it's starting to look an awful lot like a roo to me. I think I have 5 roos and 4 hens in my flock now, even though I was promised all hens. Well, here's my little guy:

He is for sure a keeper. He is mostly white, with blue feathers mixed in, out of all my chicks he is my favorite(: If he breeds with any of my wyandottes or silkies could the babies lay green eggs? I know for sure that he came out of a blue egg, if that's any use

This here is an F1 cockerel, Polish x Ameraucana. He's got cavernous nostrils. If you look closely you can see that instead of a flat surface around the nostrils that conforms well with the shape of the beak, they peak up and the nostril hole itself looks kinda enlarged and maze-like, like a human ear.

In contrast here's a pullet, notice her nostril area is smooth and conforms well with the beak. Excuse her scraggly young look.

A cavernous nostril will make it difficult for a cross to sex, however a normal nostril will make it easy to sex them by comb. The one above, like most pea combed pullets, has a very small hardly noticeable comb, males will already peak with some toothiness.

If the bird has cavernous nostrils best to sex by color, if they're not solid colored birds. The cockerel above is so because he has solid more orangey reddish feathers coming in on his shoulders than the golden brown in the rest of his body. These are male traits that will increase with age, the same hatchery EE males have red or orange wings. The female, like normal EE's, does not have such but instead has golden brown and black markings all over, and on occasion, can have a blackened head.

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He's such a handsome and adorable gent! Love the photos!

 

Here's a little update on an Easter Egger pullet of mine, this gal is mottled however is only just recently getting the true mottling patterning coming in. Mottled birds will start out looking as if they have tuxedos or similar suits on, then get a second feathering that transforms them into quite the showcase of black and white all over.

 

 

 

She's half-way there. Her front is getting some nice mottling, but most of her rear end is still pretty black in color.

She's awesome Illia!

Cool Illia, I had never even heard of cavernous nostrils before, is that a polish thing??   I don't have any polish just EE and NN, but I'm going to have to go look at chicken nostrils when I go out today.  lol

Ok, Illia here are a couple pics of my EE/polish chick. Hopefully what I got is good enough to figure out gender. I was having to handle chicks that didn't want to be held in one hand and the camera in the other so you will have to excuse the quality of the photos.

Here is a head shot

Here is a body shot. It is the black one in the middle.

I have a suspicion that it may be a cockeral because of the redness of the comb but since I have no experience with V-combs I am not sure.