The EE braggers thread!!!

[koolkyle08]

I just got two new tiny babies who seem to think I'm their chicken mommy.they like to be on my lap at all times.I got then at an auction.I think they may be EE.

 

[Flowerbh]

Here's some pics of my hatchery chicks and a few of my own. I've got a few roos in here I think so not sure who's going to get the honors. I'm going to keep this group together and breed them.

roo 1


roo 2


roo?






This is an OE

The white and black one doesn't look like a roo to me.....looks like a pullet

 

[K Epp]

I walked in the barn and caught one of my brown Leghorns coaching my White Laced EE she laid a blue egg.

 

[Victoria-nola]

That is exactly the look of EEs that I have and that I want to get more of.

 

[Victoria-nola]

i wouldnt be terrible if it was a roo i just dont want i bunch but i heard EE and amerucana roos are extremly docile.

Well I'm living proof there are no guarantees on THAT hope! I have a rooster who came with the batch of EE hens, he turned out to be white and looks like an Ameracauna breed standard. Anyway, he's turned horribly aggressive and I've tried everything I could find to try, but now I think I have to get rid of him-- he hunts me down if I go into the backyard and won't leave me alone. I feel bad because I was on this board rooting for people to give aggressive roos a chance to calm down, and now here I am having decided to say goodbye (am looking for a friend or Craigslist to take him).

It is true that I handled him as a baby and used to pick him up and cuddle him as an adult, before the aggression started. Many people who disagree about other things seem to agree that handling roos increases the likelihood of their becoming aggressive. Now I feel really uncertain and am not sure I want to try having a roo again, much as I loved him before he started hurting me.

But anyway, don't count on their being docile.

 

[SunnysideupstateNY]

I had an EE roo last year. He started out nice, but once his hormones hit he turned into a real cock! He drew blood, so off he went to the crock pot. But the other roo from that batch who went to another home is a real sweetheart! It's a gamble.
I got a Black australorp roo this past Dec. and a friend of mine hatched for me....Thought I would share some EE fuzzy butt pictures! Just the two dark ones hatched so far. The light ones are from TSC, Colombian rocks I think?
One of the Mommas is in my avatar.

 

[OldChurchEggery1]

So, I posted about having set some eggs on Friday the 1st. The storm that passed through my part of the state on Wednesday last week knocked out our power for about 36 hours. I wrapped the incubator in a towel and placed it a few feet from our woodstove. It must have kept warm enough because when I candled last night, I could see at least 3 embryos wriggling around inside the shells! Last summer I posted about having had luck with eggs even after a power outage, so we'll see how they fare after a winter outage. Our stove was kept going while we were home but the inside of the incubator was certainly not the perfect 99.5 degrees the whole time. The hatch was originally due the 22nd but I figure it will be at least a day late. Throughout this upcoming week I am going to collect a few more eggs as I've switched cockerels and can now set some from a different mating. This one will be from the yellow-legged male I have. When his eggs hatch, they will be the third generation to hatch here. Originally I had a white EE female with some red lacing and she had an encounter with a Rhode Island Red that spawned this cockerel's mother. She had a floppy S-shaped comb and laid a very round (almost Marans shaped) egg that was light brown. His father was either a Buff Ameraucana, a Wheaten Ameraucana, or a Blue EE w/gold leakage. 'Tis a mystery, but I can't wait to see what his offspring will look like since they'll be from a black Ameraucana, a Silver Ameraucana, or a blue EE that initially had some reddish down as a chick. All three of those lay very pretty blue eggs.

 

[bruceha2000]

Good luck with those eggs Erica!

About the aggressive roos. I don't have any roos but on another thread, someone posted that their roo got nasty and was about to go to freezer camp. Apparently it had always been fine before. With some forum discussion, she was able to make a connection to her new "normal color" camo colored shoes. It came out because the roo also attacked her when she wore green striped sneakers. Back to the brown shoes, and no more nasty roo.

Soooo, MAYBE, if your roo is aggressive, think about if you have changed anything that might signal danger to your roo's primitive brain. I know my girls don't mind the sound of a drill but they REALLY don't like the orange extension cord when I'm pulling it through the coop. I surmise something says "SNAKE - DANGER" even though they've never seen a snake and came from a hatchery so their mama didn't tell them scary bedtime stories about snakes. They also don't like it if I swing the rake around up high. I think there is a natural fear of aerial predators.

Bruce

 

[Victoria-nola]

Soooo, MAYBE, if your roo is aggressive, think about if you have changed anything that might signal danger to your roo's primitive brain. I know my girls don't mind the sound of a drill but they REALLY don't like the orange extension cord when I'm pulling it through the coop. I surmise something says "SNAKE - DANGER" even though they've never seen a snake and came from a hatchery so their mama didn't tell them scary bedtime stories about snakes. They also don't like it if I swing the rake around up high. I think there is a natural fear of aerial predators.

Bruce

I wish it could be something this simple in our case, but I've been wearing the same white rainboots forever. And, our roo attacks my handyman and our petsitter as well. Anyone who develops a relationship with the hens becomes a threat to him. Well, a friend here in town who urban homesteads is going to take my roo because he actually wants a very aggressive rooster for his new flock. I'm so glad I remembered to talk to him about my problem.

My next problem is to decide whether I want to get another roo in the hopes he will be gentle, or forego rooster entirely. I was really loving having the full flock experience until the rooster started drawing blood. As my friend Ken said, it's just his genetics, he's just doing what he is meant to do, and yeah, I know that, but still.... I can't be afraid of my backyard. I'm a super sensitive person and my preference is that my chickens all die of old age, so this is REALLY hard for me, the whole thing. Fortunately, he will have another chance with a new flock.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Well I'm living proof there are no guarantees on THAT hope! I have a rooster who came with the batch of EE hens, he turned out to be white and looks like an Ameracauna breed standard. Anyway, he's turned horribly aggressive and I've tried everything I could find to try, but now I think I have to get rid of him-- he hunts me down if I go into the backyard and won't leave me alone. I feel bad because I was on this board rooting for people to give aggressive roos a chance to calm down, and now here I am having decided to say goodbye (am looking for a friend or Craigslist to take him).

It is true that I handled him as a baby and used to pick him up and cuddle him as an adult, before the aggression started. Many people who disagree about other things seem to agree that handling roos increases the likelihood of their becoming aggressive. Now I feel really uncertain and am not sure I want to try having a roo again, much as I loved him before he started hurting me.

But anyway, don't count on their being docile.

Well hopfully mine wont get aggresive if it does turn out that this chick is a rooster. I also ay a lot of attention, cuddle, and love to spend time with my chickens. Sorry that you have to get rid of him. Maybe all of the sudden he will have a change of attitude. But if this chick is a rooster i will give my all to make him nice.