Easter Egger club!

[junebuggena]

Copied from http://kippenjungle.nl/basisEN.htm#kipkleurEN -
"Partridge/Brown" symbol eb, the most recessive form hence lower case e. The males are wildtype looking including groundcolor wing triangle, but they have heavier hackle and saddle striping. Their underfluff is often dark. The hens are wildtype except they lack the salmon breast; it is stippled instead. Sometimes black animals are based on this partridge/brown color. They have light underfluff and can have nice yellow legs (by another gene). This requires multiple, partly unknown, additional melanizers. This color is also difficult to set in the chicken calculator. Set both "Melanotic" and "Charcoal" to "melanized". Typical for this kind of black is that "Columbian"-like restrictors can turn the black breast (and wingbows) to groundcolor, while the more dominant E-alleles described above do not allow this;

Basically it's a coloration that makes hens have patterning through the chest.

 

[texasgal]

Another of Sybil, and my Roo, J.J. --- I candled tonight before lockdown tomorrow. Looks like I'm getting drawdown. And I have one quitter for sure, maybe two. I haven't hatched chicks in a couple years.. I'm kinda excited.

 

[twinsmom6]

Ok I was just told these are easter eggers.. but those cheek feathers? what do you think

 

[texasgal]

Copied from http://kippenjungle.nl/basisEN.htm#kipkleurEN -
"Partridge/Brown" symbol eb, the most recessive form hence lower case e. The males are wildtype looking including groundcolor wing triangle, but they have heavier hackle and saddle striping. Their underfluff is often dark. The hens are wildtype except they lack the salmon breast; it is stippled instead. Sometimes black animals are based on this partridge/brown color. They have light underfluff and can have nice yellow legs (by another gene). This requires multiple, partly unknown, additional melanizers. This color is also difficult to set in the chicken calculator. Set both "Melanotic" and "Charcoal" to "melanized". Typical for this kind of black is that "Columbian"-like restrictors can turn the black breast (and wingbows) to groundcolor, while the more dominant E-alleles described above do not allow this;

Basically it's a coloration that makes hens have patterning through the chest.

 

[jerryse]

So, when someone describes EE's coloring/plumage as wild type? Or wild type partridge? What does that mean exactly? Can someone please explain and/or add some pics describing this?

It means the chipmunk striped chicks . This is the pattern of the Red Jungle Fowl chicks . The ancestor of all domestic chickens . Examples of breeds and variations on this pattern are Light brown as in Leghorn , Black Breasted Red as in Old English Game and Partridge as in Partridge Rocks . EE have a variation of their own that I have seen called sweet potato in some of the South American land races . All produce a Black Breasted Red type male .

 

[FlyWheel]

They're getting big!



This one has no beard...



This one has a BIG beard (and sideburns)!



This one I named SilverTips


BraveHeart


Pepper

I'm thinking this one just maybe might not be a pullet after all...



"He"'s much bigger than the others (1 1/2 - 2 X bigger), has a much redder comb, and although they're still too short to tell for sure, some of the tail feathers look to be curving!

 

[mymilliefleur]

I only got two chicks from the below cross:

One that looks like Sybil.. with bright yellow legs


and a solid white one, with green GREEN legs..


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Am I seeing things wrong, or does the first chick have 5 toes?

 

[mymilliefleur]

Ok I was just told these are easter eggers.. but those cheek feathers? what do you think

It looks like a pretty typical EE chick to me.

 

[junebuggena]

All produce a Black Breasted Red type male .

Not necessarily. I've had lots of 'chipmunk' chicks end up almost solid red.

This chick grew up to be this rooster.


Two of these chipmunk chicks grew to be these guys. By 12 weeks old, they had lost all the patterning on their chests.


One of those chipmunk chicks has grown into the red guy on the kennel in the pic below.

Just to prove that there is no such thing as ALWAYS, when it comes to Easter Eggers.

 

[texasgal]

Am I seeing things wrong, or does the first chick have 5 toes?

He does. That and the fact that he has yellow legs tells me that JJ was not his dad. I had a Jr Roo whose mamma was a faverolles. I thought he was gone before these eggs would have been fertilized, but apparently not. Good catch! I wondered if anyone would notice.