The EE braggers thread!!! - Page 949

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Originally Posted by aoxa 

My funky Stanley started with a pea comb, but when he hit 18 weeks or so, it started to get all weird. His sisters all lay bright blue eggs, so I know he's got it in him :P 

 

I'd keep the colourful one! Actually both.. You always need a backup rooster!

Thanks Aoxa! The oldest rainbow boy is 5 months old and crowing. The red one is about 4 months and the littlest colorful guy is about 3 months.  The oldest one is an EE roo over a partridge colored hen (not sure of breed)..... I might let him cover the oldest girls and hatch a few eggs then send him to freezer camp. I'm pretty sure the other two were EExEE. ( I bought a bunch from a hatching addict ;-) I kept the baby pics and hatch dates to refer to) so then I could try the younger boy and ya, maybe even the red one.....

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Originally Posted by maryhysong 

Thanks Aoxa! The oldest rainbow boy is 5 months old and crowing. The red one is about 4 months and the littlest colorful guy is about 3 months.  The oldest one is an EE roo over a partridge colored hen (not sure of breed)..... I might let him cover the oldest girls and hatch a few eggs then send him to freezer camp. I'm pretty sure the other two were EExEE. ( I bought a bunch from a hatching addict ;-) I kept the baby pics and hatch dates to refer to) so then I could try the younger boy and ya, maybe even the red one.....

EE and some others change as they grow older and after molts. Usually they become more interesting.

Hi, I am really excited to have an EE with a beard and muffs so I have to share.  I just picked her up yesterday.  Her name is Ana and she is 9 months.  I was told she lays a blue egg, I am excited to see.  My other EE, Luna,  lays a bluish-green egg and I love it!  Here are some pictures of my EEs.

Ana- (is there a term for her color?)

Luna- (before she began laying, now her comb is bright red, so pretty)  I am always impressed with the frequency she lays and how big her eggs are, she is my smallest chicken.

Luna's first egg (my house sitter didn't collect any of the eggs and some of them froze and cracked open)

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Originally Posted by EHook518 

Hi, I am really excited to have an EE with a beard and muffs so I have to share.  I just picked her up yesterday.  Her name is Ana and she is 9 months.  I was told she lays a blue egg, I am excited to see.  My other EE, Luna,  lays a bluish-green egg and I love it!  Here are some pictures of my EEs.

Ana- (is there a term for her color?)

Luna- (before she began laying, now her comb is bright red, so pretty)  I am always impressed with the frequency she lays and how big her eggs are, she is my smallest chicken.

Luna's first egg (my house sitter didn't collect any of the eggs and some of them froze and cracked open)

I have always referred to the color of Ana as Wild-type golden.  Being un-registered they really don't have "Color Names" like registered birds do - you just go by what their genotype is...

Beautiful blue egg, by the way.  Hope for more of the same!

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Originally Posted by EHook518 

Hi, I am really excited to have an EE with a beard and muffs so I have to share.  I just picked her up yesterday.  Her name is Ana and she is 9 months.  I was told she lays a blue egg, I am excited to see.  My other EE, Luna,  lays a bluish-green egg and I love it!  Here are some pictures of my EEs.

Ana- (is there a term for her color?)

Luna- (before she began laying, now her comb is bright red, so pretty)  I am always impressed with the frequency she lays and how big her eggs are, she is my smallest chicken.

Luna's first egg (my house sitter didn't collect any of the eggs and some of them froze and cracked open)

I have one that looks similar to ana- her name is Pebble. :)

 Pebble- when she isn't broody, she lays long blue eggs!

 Marble- she lays round green ones.

Well I'm getting excited. My oldest EE are 5 months, old, their combs are pretty red and today the roo was getting pretty randy. With my other breeds I usually find eggs a couple weeks after the roo starts getting after them, so hoping these girls will jump on the egg train pretty quick!

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Originally Posted by maryhysong 

Well I'm getting excited. My oldest EE are 5 months, old, their combs are pretty red and today the roo was getting pretty randy. With my other breeds I usually find eggs a couple weeks after the roo starts getting after them, so hoping these girls will jump on the egg train pretty quick!

I love EEs!  I know how excited you are!  Be sure and let us know when they lay and what color eggs you get!

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Originally Posted by flower 

EE and some others change as they grow older and after molts. Usually they become more interesting.

That's good to know; would love that red boy to 'get more interesting' ;-)

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Originally Posted by Flowerbh 

I love EEs!  I know how excited you are!  Be sure and let us know when they lay and what color eggs you get!

I sure will, just hoping it is soon! 3 girls are 5 going on 6 months, a pure white one, one that is like a black and white partridge pattern, those are EExEE and a pure black girl that was EExblack australorp. All have nice tiny little pea combs. The next batch are 3 and 4 months old so they won't be laying for awhile. But I'm glad to see that little EE boy going to town. I have some WelsummerX??? (buttercup or brown leghorn) that I'm going to put with the EEs when I get my new chicken house built. Then next year I'll have olive eggers. I just love to see lots of colors in the egg basket. Plain Jane white is soooo boring!

I thinks EE are so different from regular breeds. I had a little rooster that started to crow at two weeks. Feisty little bugger that I would have to loved to see grow out. He was going to be beautiful but alas, I was over run with roosters and had them in the front yards in a town with a population of 30 thousand and a no chicken allowed law that was not on the books but if a neighbor complains.......Well you know the story. So from now on all rooster will be housed outside city limits.