The EE braggers thread!!!

[jerryse]

great sounds like the book I need.
Jerry I agree and I just wish they would all agree. I really want some Brown Reds but am fearful of posting them on there if I got them lol.

Yes it is a risk showing anything there.A more friendly atmosphere would be more helpful.Personalities vary but reasonable and friendly are where I like to hang out.

 

[bruceha2000]

I got a egg and it is huge! I went together eggs yesterday and thought that looks green. I got out in better light and low and behold it is and what a whopper. I think it came from Strawberry my oldest EE. When I got her over a month ago The man said she laid olive green eggs. This is more mint green to me, but I'm happy.

SL Wyandotte??, EE, Brown Leghorn, Australorp??
I'm not for sure who is laying the brown, I have 1 SLW and 2 Aust. I'm 99% sure the Aust is laying the lightest brown egg. The white is a sz lg so you can see how big the other two are.

Both the left AND right could be Black Australorp. My smaller one lays the color on the left. The bigger one the color on the right. One of my Partridge Chanteclers lays the same lighter brown color. But they are easy to tell apart. The BA has never laid anything less than 58 grams (averages 64+). The PC has never laid anything larger than 52 (avg 48)

I was wondering when other's EEs started to lay.

Mine started at 22 and 24 weeks,

Bruce

 

[maryhysong]

Well I am having fun plotting and planning my EE & OE breedings and the future of my flock. Goals are of course colored eggs, blue, green, olive. It would be nice if little boys of 3-5 months of age would be a bit meatier and be bigger than a chicken nugget. Early to lay and late to molt. I don't care that much one way or the other about beards and muffs, although they do make cuter chickens, and I don't know, are those traits related to the blue egg gene the way the pea comb is?

There are several colors that I like, but if they are laying blue eggs I don't really care what color the bird is, tho I will pick colors I like and cull for egg color from there.

So here is currently the alpha EE roo, Lil' Red;



he has a nice wide tent and I can actually get 2 fingers between his pelvic bones; I'm hoping he widens up some of the girls, which seem a bit pinched.

At the moment he is penned with a solid white girl that is laying the closest to a pure blue egg, a salt and pepper kind of girl laying a green egg with a tinge of olive and a black girl whose mother was black australorp and daddy was an EE that is laying a light olive color. He also has 3 Welsummer or Wellie cross girls in there for olive eggers.

I have another EE boy, younger, but beginning to crow and jump girls, that I will use also. He doesn't have a name. In fact I don't usually name my birds, tho occasionally a name just comes natural to a particular bird.




I love all of his different colors, and the speckled effect in his beard.

 

[K Epp]

Both the left AND right could be Black Australorp. My smaller one lays the color on the left. The bigger one the color on the right. One of my Partridge Chanteclers lays the same lighter brown color. But they are easy to tell apart. The BA has never laid anything less than 58 grams (averages 64+). The PC has never laid anything larger than 52 (avg 48)


Mine started at 22 and 24 weeks,

Bruce

Thx for the info. My Asut girls are about the same size. I believe all my girls (except the 2 young EE'S), but one are laying now. YAY ME!!! I'm just not sure which isn't the SLW or one of the Aust. My friend has incubators want's me to start saving eggs to hatch. I have to EE roos and a Brown Leghorn (alpha) so it will be interesting what we get.

 

[Meanstreak]

I picked up 4 "Ameracaunas" at TSC the other day. They were hatched around the 24th. They're such adorable little fluffballs, but I have very little patience in finding out what they're going to look like. I'm also having little luck picking through 1000+ replies in this thread. I found the Ameracauna site that had the different varieties, which of course, none of our little fluffballs look like. So I'm assuming I'm on the right thread. I can't seem to find a lot of chick to adult pics, so can someone maybe help me out on what these little guys/gals will look like? From what I've read so far, they're way to young to sex yet, right? They have to be the sweetest little chicks out of all 16 chicks. The come straight to your hand before any of the others do. I'm so in love with these ones, I'm thinking I might try multiple roosters since they are all being brooded together, if I have too anyways.

I'm not sure I'll be able to let them go.

Chick #1




Chick #2


Chick #3 & #4 Im kind of assuming these 2 below will turn out to be the Quill or partridge? ( Love the last ones penciled in white eyebrows)



#4

 

[bruceha2000]

I picked up 4 "Ameracaunas" at TSC the other day. They were hatched around the 24th. They're such adorable little fluffballs, but I have very little patience in finding out what they're going to look like. I'm also having little luck picking through 1000+ replies in this thread.

Patience is a virtue, especially when finding out what your EE chick will look like as an adult. Lack of this virtue in this specific instance will drive you mad

I found the Ameracauna site that had the different varieties, which of course, none of our little fluffballs look like.

Because TSC doesn't sell true Ameraucana, they sell Easter Eggers. Same as the hatcheries. If any of yours end up looking like a pure Ameraucana, it will be a coincidence.


So I'm assuming I'm on the right thread. I can't seem to find a lot of chick to adult pics, so can someone maybe help me out on what these little guys/gals will look like? From what I've read so far, they're way to young to sex yet, right? .

Too young to sex - yes. Other than vent sexing at the hatchery at one day old and they are too old for that now.
You'll have to agonize the same as we all do. Is that comb too big at this age? Is it 1 row or 3? Are the legs thick or not? Is that reddish color coming in on the shoulders the "it's a male" rusty red patching or just the coloring that the bird will become?

As far as what they will look like as adults - your guess is as good as anyone's

I don't think there are any "standard" patterns that become the same adult coloring/patterning.

Bruce

 

[Meanstreak]

Wow, this is just as bad as being pregnant all over again! I'm going to have to look up this "patience" thing, because I just don't have it!! Come on feathers!! Let's go!! I think I have less patience than my 10 yr old and my 6 yr old! The girls aren't half as excited as Mommy is.

 

[Flowerbh]

Wow, this is just as bad as being pregnant all over again! I'm going to have to look up this "patience" thing, because I just don't have it!! Come on feathers!! Let's go!! I think I have less patience than my 10 yr old and my 6 yr old! The girls aren't half as excited as Mommy is.

You will be waiting for a while before you know what they will really look like. As young chicks they can have the same look and then all of a sudden, different patterns and Colors appear! And you cant guess from chick color because some light chicks grow up dark and vica versa! That's what is so much fun with EEs!

 

[CherokeeFlats]

Got a better pic of my EE roo lastnight. So excited to have them on the farm...


He wasnt too happy about me taking pics, can you tell

 

[Outrun Acres]

I picked up 4 "Ameracaunas" at TSC the other day. They were hatched around the 24th. They're such adorable little fluffballs, but I have very little patience in finding out what they're going to look like. I'm also having little luck picking through 1000+ replies in this thread. I found the Ameracauna site that had the different varieties, which of course, none of our little fluffballs look like. So I'm assuming I'm on the right thread. I can't seem to find a lot of chick to adult pics, so can someone maybe help me out on what these little guys/gals will look like? From what I've read so far, they're way to young to sex yet, right? They have to be the sweetest little chicks out of all 16 chicks. The come straight to your hand before any of the others do. I'm so in love with these ones, I'm thinking I might try multiple roosters since they are all being brooded together, if I have too anyways.

I'm not sure I'll be able to let them go.

Chick #1




Chick #2


Chick #3 & #4 Im kind of assuming these 2 below will turn out to be the Quill or partridge? ( Love the last ones penciled in white eyebrows)



#4

Super cute chicks! Here is a link to a thread that is super helpful when trying to sex EE's or get a sense of what they are going to look like.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/463817/easter-egger-sexing-tips-and-tricks-pictures-included/