Is this a blue laced red EE?

[draye]

"Just" EE's are great, I have 11 hens and 1 Rooster. Just trying to get multiple colors thats the great thing about Easter Eggers.

 

[M To The Maxx]

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They will be EE's. No need for the "just".

Ok I don't know why you are doin the """""""""""""just"""""""""""""' thing. I didn't mean it in a bad way at all. I love my EEs. All I was saying was that it is an EE and nothing else.

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

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They will be EE's. No need for the "just".

Ok I don't know why you are doin the """""""""""""just"""""""""""""' thing. I didn't mean it in a bad way at all. I love my EEs. All I was saying was that it is an EE and nothing else.

Oh, you're just being a pain in the rear.

 

[tornado8070]

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They will be EE's. No need for the "just".

I'll 2nd that as well.

 

[draye]

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They will be EE's. No need for the "just".

Ok I don't know why you are doin the """""""""""""just"""""""""""""' thing. I didn't mean it in a bad way at all. I love my EEs. All I was saying was that it is an EE and nothing else.

I know, it's just that people tend to try put down Easter Eggers. I saw the other post and just went with it. Sorry, trying to be funny.

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

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Ok I don't know why you are doin the """""""""""""just"""""""""""""' thing. I didn't mean it in a bad way at all. I love my EEs. All I was saying was that it is an EE and nothing else.

I know, it's just that people tend to try put down Easter Eggers. I saw the other post and just went with it. Sorry, trying to be funny.

I was just trying to be funny too...I'm waiting to get clobbered

To the OP: That is a stunning roo!! I love the EE's because each one is a grab bag. I would have loved to have gotten that one!!

 

[Illia]

Getting back to the point. . .

No, it isn't a blue laced red. Also the next EE isn't technically a white laced black either. What you're seeing is a melanized duckwing. The first is a blue breasted red type duckwing with melanizers, making his chest have blue flecks, the next is a typical gold duckwing with melanizers, giving him a spangled appearance. It is common in ducking varieties that are not bred to the SOP (in this case, nearly all Easter Eggers, since they're mutts)

The same occurrence is even in this cockerel's chest. He's a blue based gold duckwing with columbian, but he also has melanizers that make his breast look spangled.

A true laced bird is not duckwing based, and would not have the duckwing patterning any of our cockerels/cocks do. They'd have the spangled or laced appearance throughout the whole body, and only TWO colors throughout the whole body.

If you continued to breed for the trait your Easter Eggers have, it won't show up much at all, if at all, in females and will only appear in the breast of the males. If it truly was lacing, it would show up on the entire body of the female and most of the body of the male.