Show off your Easter eggers!

[Blue Raptor]

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This is Isbe! I was told she might be a Easter egger. I had a few more but will have to dig for pics.

I think that might not be an Easter Egger.. they usually have pea combs and beards, not single combs and wattles right? Unfortunately, I don’t know what breed it is, but you might try posting a pic of her asking what she is.

 

[Chicken poppy]

I think that might not be an Easter Egger.. they usually have pea combs and beards, not single combs and wattles right? Unfortunately, I don’t know what breed it is, but you might try posting a pic of her asking what she is.

Not sure, i did and the responses i got said she was an Easter egger missing some genes or something like that.

 

[Blue Raptor]

Here’s my EEs:

Hazel

Waffles

Rocky

Brownie in the background there..

Peep

Are mixes allowed? I’ve got this beautiful boy, Rubble.

 

[Blue Raptor]

Not sure, i did and the responses i got said she was an Easter egger missing some genes or something like that.

Ah, interesting. I had a SLW who had a single comb, so I guess it’s possible.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I think that might not be an Easter Egger.. they usually have pea combs and beards, not single combs and wattles right? Unfortunately, I don’t know what breed it is, but you might try posting a pic of her asking what she is.

Not sure, i did and the responses i got said she was an Easter egger missing some genes or something like that.

Ah, interesting. I had a SLW who had a single comb, so I guess it’s possible.

Depending where she came from, Hoovers has a new line that are single combed and yellow legged so it is possible. Also even if she didn’t come from Hoovers, EEs don’t have a standard and can be any color or comb, etc. and lay any color. It’s just most people associate them with certain traits because that’s what most of the hatcheries have but they don’t HAVE to have those traits. She could’ve come from a Legbar rather than the usual lines too.

 

[Blue Raptor]

Depending where she came from, Hoovers has a new line that are single combed and yellow legged so it is possible. Also even if she didn’t come from Hoovers, EEs don’t have a standard and can be any color or comb, etc. and lay any color. It’s just most people associate them with certain traits because that’s what most of the hatcheries have but they don’t HAVE to have those traits. She could’ve come from a Legbar rather than the usual lines too.

I got three SLWs from Tractor Supply, one had a rose comb and two had single combs- which confused me.

 

[Chicken poppy]

Depending where she came from, Hoovers has a new line that are single combed and yellow legged so it is possible. Also even if she didn’t come from Hoovers, EEs don’t have a standard and can be any color or comb, etc. and lay any color. It’s just most people associate them with certain traits because that’s what most of the hatcheries have but they don’t HAVE to have those traits. She could’ve come from a Legbar rather than the usual lines too.

Good to know! This clears up a lot of my questions, thank you.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I got three SLWs from Tractor Supply, one had a rose comb and two had single combs- which confused me.

Yeah unfortunately hatchery chicks aren’t usually to standard since they’re bred for production mostly so stuff like that happens.

Good to know! This clears up a lot of my questions, thank you.

You’re welcome

 

[Tervuren]

My pretty Ada. I have another EE arriving in May.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Americaunas first pic. Hooty and Eddie. Easter Egger 2nd pic.

I have several Easter Eggers I just hatched from my flock, so I'll add more pics when they grow up

Americaunas are purebred, Easter Eggers are hybrids. So for those that keep posting they're the same, that is incorrect.

Ameraucana is the true breed. 'Americauna' is one of many misspellings that hatcheries and backyard breeders use when talking about their Easter-eggers, usually because they don't know any better.

For the record, none of the birds in your post are true Ameraucanas.

I got three SLWs from Tractor Supply, one had a rose comb and two had single combs- which confused me.

So, there are a couple factors to that. The main one is that the rose comb gene is completely dominant over single combs. What that means is that a bird with a rose comb may have two copies of the gene and be pure for it, or they may only have one copy of the gene and have one gene for not having a rose comb in the second slot for that trait. Despite that one is pure for the gene and one not, these birds would be indistinguishable because of the dominance of the trait. If you take two birds carrying only one copy of the rose comb gene and breed them together, about 1 in 4 of their chicks would have a single comb.

On top of this, there may be a connection between the rose comb gene and fertility in roosters; males with two copies of the rose comb gene can be less fertile than males with only one copy, or males with no copies of the gene. Hatcheries like where TSC gets their chicks keep their birds in large breeding pens, where several males are covering many more females. In this way, they assure fertility and are able to produce many chicks. However, if a pen has both males that have two rose comb genes and males that only have one rose comb gene, then because of the fertility issue connected with the double dose of the gene, the ones with only one rose comb gene are most likely fathering more chicks and those chicks have a 50-50 chance of not inheriting a rose comb gene from their father. Because some of the females can be the same way, having only one copy of the gene but still being indistinguishable from the hens with two rose comb genes, some of the chicks produced from these pens end up with a single comb instead of a rose comb.

However, all that being said, even breeder lines of Wyandottes have single combs pop up every now and then because of the aforementioned fertility issues associated with the rose comb gene.