Your birds are too pretty to be EEs !!!! The blue is quiet unique. Cockerels can be pesty and probably shouldn't be around pullets until they or the pullets mature. Cockerels can really get beat up by the girls until they get past their first year. My friend had two cockerels that were mercilessly chased by the mature hens so she had to separate them out -- but it was kinda funny to watch!
The first picture in my post above has one of the EE's (brown) and an Australorp. The second and third pics are MPC's new "Super Blue Egg Layers" (SBEL) - so not EE's though they could probably be considered EE's in the general sense as blue egg gene carriers. I do like the look of the cockerel. Below are a couple different shots of him. The plan is to have a bachelor pad coop adjacent to the main coop and run, both for the sake of the cockerels with the big girls ... and for the sake of the same age pullets not getting mercilessly chased and ... experimented on ... by the 2 cockerels.
Hoping the SBEL pullets live up to their description - large blue eggs, 5-6 per week.
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