Biggest chicken pet peeve!

[Idaho Chicken Bungalow]

Exactly! EE is a cross of at least one defined breed.

I want an EE, but so far, they look like cockerels. All of them.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Great thread. I need to vent because I think I gave myself an ulcer the past four months.

Welcome! I knew everyone would enjoy this

 

[LizGio]

Recently: When I order pullets from a reputable hatchery, I want pullets without the gut-wrenching task of finding them a home. My 6 1/2 pullets have 3 suspect cockerels. I seriously want to use my sailor language. It literally keeps me up at night,

http://www.adoptabirdnetwork.com/chicken-sanctuaries-list.php

 

[Dakota8472]

http://www.adoptabirdnetwork.com/chicken-sanctuaries-list.php

OMG im book marking that. TY so much for this resource.!!!!!!

 

[Idaho Chicken Bungalow]

http://www.adoptabirdnetwork.com/chicken-sanctuaries-list.php

None in Idaho, but I am willing to drive to Oregon, Nevada, Utah.

 

[AmeraucanaHank]

One more: When my girls hide their eggs in the worst spots!

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

One more: When my girls hide their eggs in the worst spots!

You can do as many as you want!
When my girls lay in the run! And the egg eater gets them!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Exactly! EE is a cross of at least one defined breed.

The definition of mutt is a mixed breed animal, so by your own words here, Easter-eggers would be mutts.

But you're right, the most common Easter-eggers and the ones who the term was originally made for, hatchery 'Americaunas', are not technically mutts. They aren't half true Ameraucana, or really any percentage. The Ameraucana breed is actually more like a branch in the family tree that Easter-eggers belong to as well, having been bred out of the same stock as Easter-eggers decades ago. Your generic hatchery Easter-egger is simply its own thing, not a mix of breeds but the result of breeding Easter-egger to Easter-egger for generations without any other breeds necessarily coming into play.

These days, however, hatcheries have a plethora of other Easter-egger mixes who are, by bare definition, absolutely mutts. Cream Legbar mixes, true Ameraucana mixes, even Easter-eggers crossed to defined breeds to make a totally different kind of Easter-egger. It's insanity! The bottom line is, there really isn't any reason to be upset that someone is calling an Easter-egger a mutt when it really isn't that far from the truth.

Also, apologies, I understand that this is not the point of this thread, but I felt the need to explain as someone who has called Easter-eggers mutts and will probably continue to do so.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Exactly! EE is a cross of at least one defined breed.

mutt implys no plan. EE are a plan.

When people call Easter Eggers mutts!

They are though. That's like saying my mutt dog isn't a mutt because she has a great grandparent who was a red heeler despite having like 9 other breeds in her

 

[JacinLarkwell]

hes taller than my brahma pullet!!!!!!!

Thats because the US has the recognized bantam variety and then unrecognized large fowl variety