Anyone know this breed?

[Lbyrd8512]

Many breeds can have the chipmunk pattern but the puffy cheeks and greenish tinted legs are an automatic EE identification in these chicks.

Interesting, i didn’t know that. So it looks like I was right from the very beginning lol

 

[Lbyrd8512]

Did you get them from Meyer?

Yes I did

 

[Lbyrd8512]

I think it's their catalogue.

It is

 

[Manhen]

What’s an ee?

I am not a breeder, but from what I have gathered: Cross Americauna with a brown egg layer and you will get an EE. Dark brown egg layers in the cross give Olive Eggers. These birds are mutts and will not breed true to their genetics (but may pass on desirable traits!) and your line will degrade eventually. The core of all chicken egg shells are white or blue, and differing breeds "tint" that with a coating that seems to me like it must be added during shell development. This coating can bring a blue egg to green, olive, and so on. So the key is the Americauna or I have also read the Aracauna will do, but it has a fatal gene that shows up. It it reported by the APA the Americauna was bred in America to eliminate the fatal Aracauna gene. Successfully it seems.


My 3 EE roosters at 8 months are lighter than the 3 dominiques, 2 welsumers, and the one RRI. They are bigger than the Leghorn roo. (That be Rudy.) Small roos you don't want. Hmm.

I think this is economical for breeders perhaps because one BA roo can take care of many cheaper brown egg laying hens, (and backyarders buy up all the BA hens).

 

[MGG]

I'm going with EE or olive eggers. Lakeshore eggers possibly too. Its definitely an EE variation.

 

[Henry&Friends]

I’m new at this so what is an ee? And they have olive eggers and Easter eggers and an Easter egger is one that I ordered

An EE an an abbreviation for Easter Egger, i Think there’s a list of BYC abbreviations somewhere on this site...

 

[Lbyrd8512]

I am not a breeder, but from what I have gathered: Cross Americauna with a brown egg layer and you will get an EE. Dark brown egg layers in the cross give Olive Eggers. These birds are mutts and will not breed true to their genetics (but may pass on desirable traits!) and your line will degrade eventually. The core of all chicken egg shells are white or blue, and differing breeds "tint" that with a coating that seems to me like it must be added during shell development. This coating can bring a blue egg to green, olive, and so on. So the key is the Americauna or I have also read the Aracauna will do, but it has a fatal gene that shows up.

My 3 EE roosters at 8 months are lighter than the 3 dominiques, 2 welsumers, and the one RRI. They are bigger than the Leghorn roo. (That be Rudy.) Small roos you don't want. Hmm.

I think this is economical for breeders perhaps because one BA roo can take care of many cheaper brown egg laying hens, (and backyarders buy up all the BA hens).

Sorry I am really new at this, what is a BA roo?

 

[Lbyrd8512]

An EE an an abbreviation for Easter Egger, i Think there’s a list of BYC abbreviations somewhere on this site...

Oh cool I will try to find that and check it out. Thank you!

 

[Manhen]

Sorry I am really new at this, what is a BA roo?

Blue Americauna

 

[Henry&Friends]

Sorry I am really new at this, what is a BA roo?

Here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/byc-index-of-abbreviations-acronyms.63285/

all of BYC’s abbreviations are on this list