Easter Egger club!

[Shawneegyrl]

I've got 11 other chicks...but only one EE...I chose all different kinds. Do I need to get atleast two of each kind or will they all mingle together? I'm also wondering if "she" will be a roo. A lot of people on here say that the light ones end up being roos (another excuse to go get a few more )

I love variety too. I have 2 EEs, a BLRW, a mille fluer, a dominique and 3 cochins - all bantams and a LF ameraucana, LF GLW, LF marans all together in the same coop. They do just fine. I also will have bantam salmon favorelles and bantam ameraucanas to add to the mix in a few months.

It's like a flower garden!!

 

[PrairieChickens]

Mixed flocks are the best.

 

[kenzier093]

I am wondering...what color chicks would I get if I breed my fully black bearded EE with a Salmon Faverolle rooster? Anybody have any idea? Would it have feathered legs too?

 

[chickenlver2013]

I am wondering...what color chicks would I get if I breed my fully black bearded EE with a Salmon Faverolle rooster? Anybody have any idea? Would it have feathered legs too?

They'll be mostly black because black is a dominant trait. Say if you breed a black chicken to a white you get grey and black babies and sometimes white. But mostly black and grey. Also, feathered legs is a dominant trait also. So you will have chicks with mostly feathered legs and some clean legged chicks here and there. Hope this helps.

 

[kenzier093]

They'll be mostly black because black is a dominant trait. Say if you breed a black chicken to a white you get grey and black babies and sometimes white. But mostly black and grey. Also, feathered legs is a dominant trait also. So you will have chicks with mostly feathered legs and some clean legged chicks here and there. Hope this helps.

Thank you, it did! I am trying to decide if I want to use my golden laced Wyandotte roo with my EE's or if I should use my Salmon Faverolle roo. I definitely want the beard on the chicks, but I don't want feathered legs. If I used my GLW roo would the chicks end up having a beard or not if the EE hen has a beard?

 

[chickenlver2013]

Thank you, it did! I am trying to decide if I want to use my golden laced Wyandotte roo with my EE's or if I should use my Salmon Faverolle roo. I definitely want the beard on the chicks, but I don't want feathered legs. If I used my GLW roo would the chicks end up having a beard or not if the EE hen has a beard?

I'd shoot for the Wyandotte if you want clean legs.

 

[chickenlver2013]

I'd shoot for the Wyandotte if you want clean legs.

Or you can mate your hen with both roosters to see what outcome you get. Either rooster you pick, most of the chicks you hatch will have beards and few won't.

 

[kenzier093]

Or you can mate your hen with both roosters to see what outcome you get. Either rooster you pick, most of the chicks you hatch will have beards and few won't.

I hope they won't fight if I keep both of them. I will just have to keep one on one side of the fence and the other on the other side and just switch them every now and then.

 

[PrairieChickens]

If your roosters grew up together, they probably won't fight beyond the occasional pecking order scuffle. I had 11 roosters in my flock, and they all existed fairly peacefully in the same run. I ended up separating most of them not for their sake, but for the hens. Poor girls are plucked about bald from having too many boys around.

Fortunately, we have a bachelor pen built now, so any future extra roos can go straight into that before they start harassing the ladies.

 

[chickenlver2013]

Can some one tell me the gender of my white Easter Egger chick?