The EE braggers thread!!!

[BBsChicken]

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Haha! They may build a tower to get her out of the run.... but I guess they use teleportation to get her back in. She flies out of the run every day, but about once every week or two sometime during the day she also flies back in. I'll come home to find her back with the rest of the ladies.... fussing to be let out! I've seen a mad dash or two back to the coop, but I've never noticed Sassy making long free flights like your traveling girl, Peep!

 

[BBsChicken]

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Love that she's a Commuter.... just out visiting her friends and favorite "eats" each day!

 

[Flowerbh]

My EEs are doing really well, I do have a question though, is it normal for chicks to have different growth rates? I have two chicks that's wings are almost completely feathered, and two that barely have a any feathers, and the rest are between.

Sometimes males feather in slower around the neck and shoulder areas than do females. Males also seem to grow tail feathers slower than females. Having said that, yea, birds do differ....think how different kids grow and have the same parents!!!

 

[bruceha2000]

Ok 1 week has passed and I finally have time to show you all my new brood!

Willow

And now you are going to ask us to sex them and tell you what they will look like as grown birds, right?

Bruce

 

[salt and pepper]

Thank you! She acts healthy, I just noticed she wasn't feathering as quickly, and wasn't as big, so I wanted to make sure she was ok =)

 

[CherokeeFlats]

Tomorrow is the big day... I have EE eggs due to hatch. SO excited

If any hatch I'll be sure to post pics.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I am hiding from the Ameraucana thread

I had to remind them that they contribute to some of the EE X AMERAUCANA versus non standard Ameraucana debat.
By not always agreeing on what to call non standard birds.
I do not care if they want to call them Non standard or easter eggers but wish there could be an agreement.

I called on ameraucana's today. thought to be wheaten asked for a picture and got your standard hatchery easter egger picture.
Told her what they where and was told no you are wrong they are just non standard..
yikes.

 

[CherokeeFlats]

Meet Pancake. The newest member of the Easter Eggers, hatched from my OWN flock!!!!
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Hatched this morning

 

[Hangtown Farms]

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cute

 

[Outrun Acres]

I am hiding from the Ameraucana thread

I had to remind them that they contribute to some of the EE X AMERAUCANA versus non standard Ameraucana debat.
By not always agreeing on what to call non standard birds.
I do not care if they want to call them Non standard or easter eggers but wish there could be an agreement.

I called on ameraucana's today. thought to be wheaten asked for a picture and got your standard hatchery easter egger picture.
Told her what they where and was told no you are wrong they are just non standard..
yikes.

I just finished reading your posts on the Ameraucana thread. Well said! I was in your position last week (hiding under my chair). I just couldn't help myself I had to post regarding the EE/Non standard debate. It just blows my mind, and doesn't make an ounce of sense. If you breed a Ameraucana to an Ameraucana you have to get an Ameraucana! Genetically, there is no possible way to get an entirely different breed on chicken! Technically, you can only get a non-standard bird. Is there any other breed of chicken that calls non-standard birds an entirely different breed? I haven't found one yet. With this breed I think it's a case of "Buyer Beware." Since there are a lot of people out there breeding non-standard birds you have to do exactly what you did and ask for pictures of the parents to check for yourself. People seriously interested in purchasing a breed of any chicken would do their research and ask for pictures of some of the birds in the breeding pens. Most hatcheries do list their birds as "not suitable for 4-H" when they don't come close to meeting the SOP for that breed. To me that means something about their birds doesn't adhere to the SOP and you wouldn't be able to show them. Even our local feed store had their Ameraucanas also labeled as Easter Eggers in parenthesis. I still scan the thread over there because I like Ameraucanas and may want to get some someday. But this is the most ridiculous argument I have ever come across regarding chickens. An EE is a mutt chicken (and I love them dearly) that has some genetics other than Ameraucana, making it a different breed of chicken altogether. So please come come out from underneath your chair Hangtown Farms. Regardless of our opinions on this matter I know we will be well received over here. Owners of EE's are some of the nicest people I have met on BYC. I love this thread!