The EE braggers thread!!!

[WillowChick]

From what I understand there are only two colors of shells, white, and blue. And this is only because the blue pigment is introduced to the new white shell at the beginning of the shell formation and thus the pigment penetrates it more thoroughly. Whereas brown pigment is added late, and only coats the shell, whether that's a white shell or a shell that has been pigmented to be blue. I have never heard of a plum egg other than as an additional descriptor to the shade of brown. The more brown pigment, the darker the brown... if it is over a white shell, it's a brown egg, if it is over a blue shell it is a green egg, and again, the more brown pigment, the darker, more Olive the green.

So... I am not sure anything has been exacerbated.

If you look at the inside of the egg shell, it's either white or blue. Gifa is right. Even brown eggs are white inside unless they carry the blue egg gene, then even if they are olive on the outside, they are blue inside.

If the hen laying the egg caries two blue egg genes, her eggs will always be blue inside. If she carries 1 blue egg gene and one brown one, her eggs will be blue inside, if she carries 2 brown egg genes, her eggs will be white inside.

At least that's my understanding of the genetics behind it, and I have not found an exception with my eggs.

Willow

 

[WillowChick]

I like my mixed breeds best because the have good personalities. But I do like all the colors

My Ameraucanas are DIVA'S

LOVELY eggs!

 

[WillowChick]

Good points about non-standard Ameraucanas.
I always thought it was odd to call it a different breed just because of being non-standard

We got EE's just to add some color to our egg basket, but they are def 'hatchery quality'. I'm waiting to see what my blue-butts lay before selling the 4 EE's I have left. If the BB's lay olive eggs, I'll trap nest the EE's to see who laid the big green eggs that hatched the BB's, and keep her. But otherwise I'm selling them asap. I'm pretty sure 2 are laying brown eggs.

The feather color surprises are pretty cool though. So many patterns!
I ordered the chicken color genetics book from the Netherlands (bye bye tax return) and can't wait to have the proper genetic codes to plug into the chicken calculator

Can you tell me the title?

Willow

 

[BBsChicken]

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I went out and measured my fence and... sure enough... only 6 1/2 feet. Sorry about that!!! She does fly right up there without help, though, as we currently have no roosts inside the run. (None of my other birds even try - not even my other EE, who I would think should be able to if Sassy can.)

 

[OldChurchEggery1]

I did it- I've set some eggs. Whee! They went in on Friday. I set 16 EEs (8 green eggs and 8 blue eggs) and 1 mystery egg. I know that the father of the mystery egg is my white EE (who may well be a recessive-white Ameraucana from a pair of blacks I had) but the lady who laid it might be any of my brown layers. We shall see...

 

[bruceha2000]

I went out and measured my fence and... sure enough... only 6 1/2 feet. Sorry about that!!! She does fly right up there without help, though, as we currently have no roosts inside the run. (None of my other birds even try - not even my other EE, who I would think should be able to if Sassy can.)

Maybe the others are building a tower by standing on each other and she starts 3' up. Extra boost if the one right under her jumps up just before she takes off.

She must go light on the feed and practice a lot to keep her wing muscles strong. All of my girls CAN fly, but they mostly run instead. I can't understand it, they HAVE wings, why not use them? Though Peep did take off the 4' roost for pre bedtime scratch treats last night, flew past my head (6') and nearly made the wall 10 feet outside the coop before she came down. I guess she wanted to make sure she didn't land on any of the other girls as they headed out of the coop. She's a Cubalaya and I know she's made a free flight in the past of at least 100' starting from the ground and clearing a 3' and a 4' fence on the way to the barn.

Bruce

 

[maryhysong]

I have about a dozen EE girls and just one persists in jumping on top of the coop (4 ft tall mobile coop) then flying about and sometimes over the fence. Most of the time she just sits up on top of the coop tho. Now one of the girls in that pen, a RIR x cochin near as I can figure out, regularly commutes between that pen and the one next door. She eats with the others and then hops the fence to lay her egg in the other coop. But I've never seen her on top of the coop and have yet to catch her in the act of going over the fence (6 ft chicken wire).

 

[WillowChick]

Ok 1 week has passed and I finally have time to show you all my new brood! They are all either 1/2 or 1/4 Ameraucana (One daddy was an Ameraucana, and 1 was half) mixed with a bunch of different other breed mothers. There's some cochin, brahma (dark and light), barred rock, australorp etc etc. I've been having a lot of fun with these guys



Katniss


Mary


Caroline


Merida


Nelly


Jynx


Laura


Carrie


Grace


Camilla


Seven

Willow

 

[Cockle-Dood]

precious! top one looks like your ausie cross, lol

 

[SD Bird Lady]

I noticed there is a very good EE clarification on the feature about rainbow egg baskets.