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I texted the person and he wants $250 for them. The parents have been around chickens but not the pups.

I am looking for another one so Jolie can train it. Well, not that I want her to train it to tear out of the fence like she did last night. I know Pyrs like to wander but I did not realize they could tear down fences so easy.

There wasn't a storm last night but obviously Miss Jolie wanted to go walk about and since we fixed the gate from where she tore it down during storms she has decided the back fence is old enough she can tear it down. There was a huge hole there this morning and I could not find Jolie. I finished up chores and there she came wandering in looking all beat. I fixed the fence again.

It has gotten so the whole neighborhood knows to call me when they see a huge white dog out. We are all afraid she will get hit by a car or shot.

I knew the challenges of owning another dog, especially a Pyr. Now you all see why I fought it so long.
I love Jolie and would not trade her for the world. I just wish I knew the secrets of keeping them inside a fenced in farm.

You need to run an electric fence around the bottom and the top of your current fence so she can't dig out or climb over. That is the only way I know to stop them once they start. But electric does work, immediately.
 
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Okay, I will go look and see what they look like.........one has a round cap and one has a back of the head "do" going on. The one with the round cap is bigger than the back of the head chick.

Amy, you can usually tell the males from the females by the crest when they're little. The crest will be round for females and more oval shaped for males. Also as they get a bit older, the crest will appear very neat and the feathers mostly the same size for the hens but the males crest will get "messy" looking as the feathers are all different sizes.
 
Hey everybody, I just thought I'd give you an update on the "stolen chicken" story we were talking about yesterday. My friend told me she had no idea where Fox News came up with that $1000 price tag. They did not give an estimate of the worth of the birds. Maybe the police officer put it on the report? Anyway, it seems that the thieves came into the yard from the back road and ran across the yard to get in a car on the road in front of the house. They were thinking maybe it was just kids crossing the property to get from one road to another. It didn't occur to them that they were stealing chickens. It really makes me mad that they would do that to a kid though.
 
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One looks like a tan chipmunk, the other is much darker with little to no striping.

My EE's come all sorts of colors. I have white ones that hatch yellow and chipmunk ones that turn into boys and girls. I do notice any black feathering will be boys.
I usually always have tan, yellow, white, gray or blue girls with boys being those darker colors. Having said that, I have several dark brown girls from the hatchery, too. One dark girl lays a brown egg and I have a white girl that lays a brown egg. Feather color obviously doesn't apply here to egg color.

On my EE page I show how Easterman started out as a juvenile and what he looks like today on down the page. He was a mostly white little boy but developed black feathers and changed a lot to what he looks like now. With his recent attitude though, he is going to look naked!

Now I am questioning the breed all together! They don't look anything like the EEs you describe. The one is tan with chocolate striping. It's wings spoted and underneath the wings it's black and white strips. The darker one is like a brownie color with no striping, puffy cheeks with creamy colored down and dark brown feathers on it's back that are spotted. I was told they were Ameracaunas now I am wondering. It's hard to keep one breed in mind when they don't really look like what you are told they should look like.....darn individuality!
 
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My EE's come all sorts of colors. I have white ones that hatch yellow and chipmunk ones that turn into boys and girls. I do notice any black feathering will be boys.
I usually always have tan, yellow, white, gray or blue girls with boys being those darker colors. Having said that, I have several dark brown girls from the hatchery, too. One dark girl lays a brown egg and I have a white girl that lays a brown egg. Feather color obviously doesn't apply here to egg color.

On my EE page I show how Easterman started out as a juvenile and what he looks like today on down the page. He was a mostly white little boy but developed black feathers and changed a lot to what he looks like now. With his recent attitude though, he is going to look naked!

Now I am questioning the breed all together! They don't look anything like the EEs you describe. The one is tan with chocolate striping. It's wings spoted and underneath the wings it's black and white strips. The darker one is like a brownie color with no striping, puffy cheeks with creamy colored down and dark brown feathers on it's back that are spotted. I was told they were Ameracaunas now I am wondering. It's hard to keep one breed in mind when they don't really look like what you are told they should look like.....darn individuality!

That's the thing with EE. It's basically like getting a mutt at the Humane Society. It's a colored egg layer bred with a mystery! There's no specific colors. They will change a lot as they get older. I think I meant that the girls will stay brownish or lightish. All of the roos I ended up with got very colorful. They lay great eggs though. And that's the other interesting thing! You won't know what color they lay until they start. I have mostly green of some kind, but I have a few that lay blue and a few tan. They are laid back chickens. They are not Ameraucanas. I just now read that. Ameraucanas are a specific breed. If you got this at a feed store or hatchery, they are EE. Still great birds but not Ameraucanas. I wish people and stores would get their facts straight!
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I just looked at your pictures. It's way too early to tell. I've had chickens at 4 and 5 months and couldn't tell for sure. You'll just have to wait! Keep an eye on the color of the EE (they are for sure EE) and see how they develop. They will start to change. If they stay brown, good chance they're girls. I picked up 7 EE at TSC last year and got 5 boys! I'll never do that again! If you want Ameraucanas in the future, I breed them and so do others on this board. Hope you get girls!
 
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i could use a light sussex rooster. or a pr. i may bring a grown pr. of speckeld sussex but not to sell. just for you to see what they look like. i am bringing milli fleur cochins 2 trios that was hatched on christmas day. also bringing 1 to 2 week old chicks. will bring blrws and speckeld sussex and may bring 1 pr. of my blrs to look at but not for sale.
 

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