The EE braggers thread!!!

[TherryChicken]

My new girl

 

[chickencrazy429]

I can join (hopefully)!!! Almost two weeks ago, I picked up two EE's from my feed store! Their names are Pippy and Hazel. Pippy has a very strong personality, and Hazel is calm, but sometimes gets a bit excited. I love 'em already!

 

[chirpingcricket]

My new girl

CONGRATULATIONS!! She's lovely. How old is she? Do you know her egg color?

 

[TherryChicken]

CONGRATULATIONS!! She's lovely. How old is she? Do you know her egg color?

Thank You and I don't know the the answer to either yet.

 

[ChickNmamma]

Hi Everyone.
I am a first time poster to this thread, but I have been following it for a while. I wanted to share some pictures of my EE'ers. They are just short of a year old. The women I got them from said she crossed Americana hens with either white leghorns or Andalusians roosters. I love the way they look. They are egg laying machines. They all lay sky blue eggs. I have 6 birds and I get 5 or 6 eggs a day. They are hands down my best layers.
Have a look.

Beautiful birds, I would guess that Andalusian was a very busy boy. Only way to make blue and splash is using blue - and white leghorns are dominant white so all the chicks from him would be solid white!

 

[maggiemo]

Beautiful birds, I would guess that Andalusian was a very busy boy. Only way to make blue and splash is using blue - and white leghorns are dominant white so all the chicks from him would be solid white!

And the black too?
Thanks for looking!

 

[ChickNmamma]

There wouldn't be any blacks from the Leghorn. There could be from the Andalusian - just missed out getting any of the Bl (blue) gene and so is just black. The blue gene turns anything that is black into blue (one copy) or splash (two copies). The black and white hens could be from the leghorn maybe (white with leakage) but they look more like splash (blue EEs x Blue Andalusian).

 

[maggiemo]

There wouldn't be any blacks from the Leghorn. There could be from the Andalusian - just missed out getting any of the Bl (blue) gene and so is just black. The blue gene turns anything that is black into blue (one copy) or splash (two copies). The black and white hens could be from the leghorn maybe (white with leakage) but they look more like splash (blue EEs x Blue Andalusian).

Thank you. This is just the information I wanted to hear.
So, how could I keep the blue egg-great laying gene in any of these girls offspring? They are great birds, smallish, light eaters, lay almost everyday beautiful sky blue eggs. What more could I ask?

 

[ChickNmamma]

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To improve your chances of keeping the blue egg gene in the future generations I would use a rooster from a blue egg. With your coloring I would suggest a blue Ameraucana (real deal - not feedstore).

 

[Hangtown Farms]

My new girl

she is goregous