Easter Egger club!

[junebuggena]

Most black birds have iridescent feathers. It's not it's own color, it's something that happens to black when light hits it just right. I even have some Barred Rocks that have iridescent black stripes.

 

[RunningRabbit]

Does that also apply to brown feathers, too? Abby's feathers aren't black. I used to have an all black serama hen who had the iridescence, but I've never seen it on brown feathers. It's pretty cool to see it. Maybe I'll pick up a rooster that has the iridescence to him and have a flock of sparkly chickens

 

[junebuggena]

Does that also apply to brown feathers, too? Abby's feathers aren't black. I used to have an all black serama hen who had the iridescence, but I've never seen it on brown feathers. It's pretty cool to see it. Maybe I'll pick up a rooster that has the iridescence to him and have a flock of sparkly chickens

Abby has silver partridge type coloring, which means she has a white (silver) base, with black penciling throughout each feather. It's the black in her patterning that has the iridescence.

 

[RunningRabbit]

Gotcha Do you have any suggestions on a rooster breed that would enhance those qualities? I love my girl very much and absolutely want some chicks by her. But I want to try for her feather pattern, but with other color variations possible.

 

[junebuggena]

Gotcha

Do you have any suggestions on a rooster breed that would enhance those qualities? I love my girl very much and absolutely want some chicks by her. But I want to try for her feather pattern, but with other color variations possible.

If you get a rooster with a red/gold base color, you will have red sexlinks. The boys will look like their mother, with her black and white feathering. The girls will be red/gold and black.
If you want colorful chicks, avoid solid black, solid white, and barred roosters.

 

[attimus]

here he is with one of the dottes I mentioned. Got a lot of buff pullets this year from him along with two red shouldered cockerals and the two other lace chested ones.
Attimus

 

[katatonic123]

At least they believed you.

My S-I-L said it was good we let him know the blue eggs were SUPPOSED to be blue otherwise he would've thrown 'em out

 

[junebuggena]

here he is with one of the dottes I mentioned. Got a lot of buff pullets this year from him along with two red shouldered cockerals and the two other lace chested ones.
Attimus

If your goal is to get some silver laced Easter Egger pullets, it's not going to happen using that rooster. Silver is sexlinked. A hen with a silver base color can only pass her silver coloring on to her male chicks. With your rooster and the Silver Laced hens, all the female chicks with be red/gold/buff and all the males with be black and white with some red leakage in the shoulders as they mature.

 

[attimus]

No goal intend, this is merely a backyard mutt flock and was simply curious. Thanks for quick resoonse s and info. I'll try and get some pics of my ees up soon.
Attimus

 

[nanasnuggets]

I'd like to join the EE Club, please? We bought 5 EE at the feed store on May 4th of this year; two white, two black/grey and one all grey - all sexed as pullets

. Well. all of you EE caregivers know where this is going...... by early July one of my 'girls' started crowing! I did my research and discovered that in an all hen flock, an alpha may take the role of the 'rooster'. This pullet was the most beautiful of all my girls! "Her" comb was the biggest, her feathers were multicolored and longer than the others - and 'she' was developing little bitty spurs! My poor baby had gone through a sex change! Long story short, we had to give Carmen (now Tom Jones) to a nice neighbor who had a flock of twenty; my four girls were not enough for him

. Our four remaining girls are: Iris, cream and lavender; Hawk, black and brown; Hyacinth, beautiful white/cream; and Darth Vader, brown and black who's feathers look green and purple in the sun. Hyacinth's cheek puffs are the most outstanding because of her color, but all four have wonderful muffs and beards! All the chicks have been handled daily since the day we got them; Iris, Hawk and Hyacinth are very friendly, but Vader is a little skittish. Hawk will jump onto your shoulder just to say 'hi'!. Three of my girls started laying at the end of September; Hyacinth hasn't started yet and I assume that she won't until next spring at this point. Now, in late November, I'm lucky to get one egg every few days, most frequently from Hawk, and occasionally from Iris; I know that it will come to a halt, soon. We will not use supplemental lighting, we want the girls to live as naturally as possible. I will post pics. as soon as I'm able. I'm proud to belong to BYC, and even more proud to belong to the EE group!