EE colouring / plumage - chicks vs/ adults --- Post your PICS!

[Velvet Hairpiece]

I haven't posted here in a while and wanted to show some EE chicks vs. adults and some progression in between!

Here are both of the EEs. Wendy is brownish chipmunk on the right, and Lady is the greyish one.

Here is Wendy with her cute puffy cheeks!

I don't know why these photos keep showing up upside down and sideways, how do you fix this?!

Here she is a little bit older, in front of the BR.

A little bit older still, in front of the BR roo. You can see her starting to get her dark grey feathers in on her head and neck and more grey on her back.

And here is ugly teenage phase!

Here she is all mature and beautiful.

Here is a picture of one of her eggs. Sometimes they have some speckles on them, sometimes not. I've found that to be true of the brown egg layers, too.


Not to toot my own horn, but the photo is featuring one of my handmade books that I sell in my ETSY shop (link in signature), but it's the only picture I have on my computer of her egg!

And now on to Lady. He was supposed to be a girl. As punishment, he kept his name.

He had a speckled head as a youngling.

He actually feathered out just as quickly as the hens, including his tail feathers. And started showing white on his wings early on as well.

As he matured, his head was totally black.

Here Wendy and Lady are together again.

As he matured, he started getting those speckled spots on his head, and here he is today.

He's a dapper fellow!

And here are his marking a little more detailed along his neck and back.

Lady started out as the alpha roo. Then one day Henri got huge and told him who was boss, and now Lady is the beta. The two get along pretty well for my small flock of 8 total and the hens don't seem to be suffering one bit, mostly because they won't let Lady mount them any more.

Edited for fact checking.

 

[Sueg4332]

nice ees what color eggs did they lay? may order some from My Pet chicken. beautiful colors

As much as I loved my reddish brown Easter Eggers, I wanted more variety:

I ordered 25 EEs from My Pet Chicken

and picked out some unusual type colors (like the silver, blonde, etc.) to keep for myself:

I wish I had better pics of them when they were little, but this is what they turned out to look like (ignore the buff orp in the pic):

 

[AnimalCrazed]

Here is my week old EE, I hope she is a girl, her name is Roo!
Any guesses to her adult coloring?





She has got crazy long wings! bigger than the other two BO's and she is the smallest!

 

[CT]

Roo looks like my girl Hawk. You can see her here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...cks-vs-adults-post-your-pics/340#post_7272351

 

[AnimalCrazed]

Hawk has some pretty color that would be neat!!

Roo looks like my girl Hawk. You can see her here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...cks-vs-adults-post-your-pics/340#post_7272351

 

[beaglady]

This is such a fun thread. I'm having fun playing with colors, though I forgot to take my camera along when I tended the babies tonight.

Last year, I crossed a blue andalusian roo with a honey colored Ameracuana hen and a barred white one. This spring, I crossed the resulting blue hens to a Araucana roo I had gotten over the winter. Most of the eggs from the f1 hens were pinkish, but about 1/3 were blue. I've been hatching most of the blue ones, and a few of the pink. Most of the babies are following the expected blue/black colors, but there's one that had a rusty look to it. Now that it's 2 weeks old, it looks like it's getting black/white barring on its wings, but the head still looks rusty red. I'm anxious to see how it turns out.

 

[AnimalCrazed]

I noticed that my chicks cheeks arn't as fluffy as some of the others on here, does that mean her muffs and beard won't be as poofy when she grows up?

 

[Summer98]

This is such a fun thread. I'm having fun playing with colors, though I forgot to take my camera along when I tended the babies tonight.

Last year, I crossed a blue andalusian roo with a honey colored Ameracuana hen and a barred white one. This spring, I crossed the resulting blue hens to a Araucana roo I had gotten over the winter. Most of the eggs from the f1 hens were pinkish, but about 1/3 were blue. I've been hatching most of the blue ones, and a few of the pink. Most of the babies are following the expected blue/black colors, but there's one that had a rusty look to it. Now that it's 2 weeks old, it looks like it's getting black/white barring on its wings, but the head still looks rusty red. I'm anxious to see how it turns out.

I believe my blue andalusian is a roo. You should share some pictures of your blue x EE.

 

[kahlua]

I have 8 EE chicks that are now 4 weeks old.

At a day or two old...


The two chipmunks are turning out very differently...
The boy...feathering in red and blue! He is a scrawny ugly thing though, and the most skittish of the bunch.


The girl, who looks like she'll be red and white...


Love this girl so far...black with some red...


There are two like this one - one has a little more red than the other.




And there are a few that are brown with some white coming in...

 

[AnimalCrazed]

UPDATE

A few days old (the chicken sandwitch

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One week




Three weeks




Five weeks old






I'm pretty sure this one is a girl!!