Ok I know these guys are roo's but....

[kari_dawn]

Maybe EE crossed with GLW?
kari_dawn - Your EEs are so pretty! I want that rooster, he has some amazing colors!

Thanks! That was Sabre. He got rehomed...he has a lovely flock of his very own now!

You know, looking at the additional pictures of those roos, the one with yellow legs reminds me of a welsummer in his coloration...but I suppose GLW is also a possible mix.

 

[Illia]

For anyone curious, the really dark pretty black and gold EE hen isn't just simply a gold duckwing, she's a melanized gold duckwing.

Possibly carrying the columbian gene too.

 

[kari_dawn]

Illia, I was hoping you would chime in...I have no idea about anything genetics wise in a chicken...but here is a picture of her as a fuzzy butt!



Oh, wait, were you talking about my Clover, or another EE that got posted?

 

[Illia]

Posted by Kari_Dawn - Yep, that's your girl I was talking about

Seeing that patterning as a chick though, she could be something else, but, only a breeding could tell.

 

[kari_dawn]

so hypothetically, what would I breed her with to test that?

 

[Illia]

A good duckwing male. (black breast and tail, red white or yellow elsewhere) If they hatch out looking like her or a normal duckwing, I'm right. If they hatch out with a huge variety of other weird colors, she could carry other genes. If she's from a hatchery though I'm most likely right. The other thing I was thinking of isn't common in hatchery stock.

 

[Fleabuskitty]

kari_dawn - I got a chick that looked exactly like that about 3 months ago! This is what he looks like now:

He's pretty, but looks like a rooster and we already have plenty of those, so he'll probably end up in freezer camp.

 

[Illia]

He's 100% rooster

 

[Fleabuskitty]

He's 100% rooster

That's what I thought, but many the people who replied to the thread I started about him here think otherwise

I love the variety in EEs, I wish I had more, I only have two at the moment. I think that my hen Dib is proof of the randomness that is Easter Eggers. Dib, at first glance, looks like a bantam partridge frizzle. However, she has five toes. AND she lays green eggs! I bought her knowing she was 2 years old and not expecting her to lay many, or any, eggs and wanting her just for "decoration". She lives with my silver duckwing Serama pair, so I was very surprised to find a green egg in their pen about a month ago, much larger than the eggs that my Serama hen had been laying. Now she lays 3-4 eggs a week at 2.5 years old!
Here is Dib, my bantam frizzled five-toed feather-footed easter egger!

 

[BlazeJester]

What a COOL chicken!!!

I'm gonna go pick out all the dark EEs I can find at the feed store and/or my uncle's batch of chicks - I'm in loooove with Kari_Dawn's BEAUTIFUL hen!!!