Baby Chick Pictures!!!!! POST!

[Tappy4me]

pics later when I get home . The little girl with pasty butt is doing great! Shes the reddish one there.

 

[Summerford]

Can you post a pic of yours?

Shes about three weeks old here. She is orange just looks yellowish in the picture.

 

[JenBoughtHens]

Yup. That's my chicken. Ha.

 

[misbhaven]

I need to run down and take a picture ...found the greatest brooder ever for a lot of chicks I had a ferret cage that i got with a multilevel rabbit cage off of Craig's list a year ago for like $30.. my almost 4 week old SLW love it...i just put a can case with shavings in it (like soup comes in on one level) cardboard on some of the other levels..slide some boards in the holes for a couple of perches and hung their light above which is just a 100 watt light bulb...

 

[Shortperson2002]

My 4 wk old chicks

Bandit (Barred Rock)

Bella (Buff Orpington)

Little Feather (White Leghorn)

Lucy (White Leghorn)

Sissy (Buff Orpington)

Smokey (Barred Rock)

 

[misbhaven]

13 slw. Non have names yet because I also have some meaties and didn't want the children to name them or become attached

 

[ncymst]

I got caught up in the whole Ameracana, Araucana, EE thing because when I was looking into buying some.  I kept seeing birds that didn't even resemble each other.  Some had ear tufts, some didn't.  Some had tails, some didn't.  Some had tight feathering, some didn't and the colors and patterns varied wildly so I decided to do some research.

What I found, and this may have already been discussed, is the Ameracaunas and Araucanas are both recognized breeds by the APA, have a standard and lay only blue eggs.  If they lay any other colored egg but blue, then they are not Ameracaunas or Araucanas.  They are the mutts (mixed breeds) of the chicken world and were given the distinction of EE (Easter Egger).  The sad part is that the hatcheries and breeders mislead people into spending more money for a 'breed' that isn't recognized by the APA because they are actually a mix of many different breeds.

I am confused on the EE. What does that stand for ? Easter egger? I had a chicken that laid green eggs and she had the fluff around her eyes. I thought Americanas and EE were the same thing.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I like all color of eggs- and now the popular color is olive green- that is not standard but people like them- a farm near my house has gray eggs now that is cool
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[PrairieChickens]

Quote: Ameraucanas are purebred. Easter Eggers (often abbreviated EE) are mutts of Ameraucanas and some other breed.

 

[misbhaven]

I am confused on the EE. What does that stand for ? Easter egger? I had a chicken that laid green eggs and she had the fluff around her eyes. I thought Americanas and EE were the same thing.

unless you are going to breed and show them as Ameracauna'a etc is doesn't really matter an EE could be a mutt some combo to get a colored egg layer true ones are supposed to lay only blue eggs.. An EE just means it doesn"t meet breed standard but most of us have them unless you buy chicks or eggs from a breeder..I have both batam EE , LF EE and now some true ones the bator..hmm remind me to take pics of my EE pullets now to compare with the ones i hatch...JUst like an olive egger is just a blue egg layer that is crossed with an dark brown egglayer like a maran most aren't mutt's but makes an unrecognized breed... I probably will get jumped on about this post the EE/amercauana thing is kind of a hot topic..people get worked up about it not me my littler kids just like colored eggs bought some purebreds because older boy wants to be in 4h