NY chicken lover!!!!

[cracrzy4chicks]

Wow! everyone is saying their eggs are large. Your eggs are blue? Or your chicken?
I'm thinking I should open my vent window on my coop..!

No, I have a blue chicken that lays green eggs ! My other EE's are mostly white w/ some chestnut brown & dark grey kinda smudged through their feathers, they also lay green eggs.

 

[JLaw]

So.... If I get a EE rooster and let it woo my hens, I can have EE babies that lay blue or green eggs which are larger?

Man i was just looking at a site last night about how to do EE's. From what i under stand there is two differnt ways a chicken can carry the gene both look close but spelled different. one way you get 100% ee's the other you would get like a 50/50 batch. was kinda confuseing to me and i was on a phone at work if i can find it will post it. i know it was here on byc but i found it by googleing "Araucana mixed with RIR" or "how to make an EE". man i wish i could find it cause i wanted to look it over again.

well break is over back to work

jlaw

 

[rancher hicks]

I am not completely sure how to breed to the Easter Egger.

I have an Lavender Amer. roo which would carry the blue gene egg color. I've been breeding him to two EE hens that lay greenish/blue eggs. Their daughters lay blue/green eggs. Sometimes they look more blue than green. I think like maran it depends on how she colors the egg.

 

[stonykill]

the only thing I know about EE's is from my 2. Mine at least are pathetic layers. One lays an almost olive color egg twice a week and the other a blue egg twice and if I'm REALLY lucky 3 times a week. Someday those 2 hens will be dinner. Hard for me to justify that when everyone else lays 5 to 6 eggs a week.

 

[Lynzi777]

I am not completely sure how to breed to the Easter Egger. I have an Lavender Amer. roo which would carry the blue gene egg color. I've been breeding him to two EE hens that lay greenish/blue eggs. Their daughters lay blue/green eggs. Sometimes they look more blue than green. I think like maran it depends on how she colors the egg.

Those are sooo pretty Rancher!

 

[Lapeerian]

I found a great site, Scratch Cradle, that has chicken genetics explained. Such as which crosses for the sex-link breeds and egg colors. Really neat info. Found it in one of the chicken site e-newsletters I get.
Got some outside work started tonight. My brother delivered a load of compost to add in the garden beds, and man is that stuff ripe! Cow manure that has sat a year or two. This was also from his cow body compost test, so got a few bone parts in it. Between the smell and the bones, neighbor Amish dogs are going to be rolling in (literally!). Brother was even nice enough to bring over his small tractor with loader so we don't have to shovel and wheelbarrow it all. Tomatoes are growing like weeds in my little greenhouse.

 

[vmdanielsen]

the only thing I know about EE's is from my 2. Mine at least are pathetic layers. One lays an almost olive color egg twice a week and the other a blue egg twice and if I'm REALLY lucky 3 times a week. Someday those 2 hens will be dinner. Hard for me to justify that when everyone else lays 5 to 6 eggs a week.

I have 5 EE/LH x's from Tab. They lay large blue eggs almost daily.

 

[stonykill]

I have 5 EE/LH x's from Tab. They lay large blue eggs almost daily.

 

[mderby48]

Bug

 

[Henicillin]

HI everyone! Just found out that I is now a college stoodent. Gotta finish that four year degree before they boot my ASN butt out of the job market. =)

Still holding steady here with 5 broodies sitting on nothing. LOL.

Hooray for college students! I'd like to go get my Ph.D., but I can't justify it.