The EE braggers thread!!!

[Tadkins472]

Those are some gorgious chicks.

 

[debid]

All chipmunks are duckwing-based. That's why they are often easy to sex -- the males and females look so very different.

OldChurchEggery1, your roosters are not silver, they're actually gold (hence the red on the wing). It's a very common look for EEs.

Black and white in the juvenile plumage does not equal male. Black and white with a patch of red or white on the wing bow (the part that hasn't filled in yet) does. Hang in, TREX, it really is too early to say. The odds of getting two pullets from a bin of hatchery sexed pullets is strongly in your favor.

 

[TREX]

TREX, I had two almost identical to that and they both turned out to be boys. I did progression pictures for them so I could track how they turned out. See below. You can see they both started getting those white feathers early. A lot of chipmunk-striped EEs are duckwing based (it's a color pattern) where the silver version has the males feather out white and black.

Oh no! I'm gonna be peaved if I got the only two roos out of a "sexed" pullet bin...I cannot keep roosters and my daughter will be pretty upset that her babies will have to go.Not to mention the time and money spent raising them and intergrating them, it will all just be a huge waste.

 

[TREX]

All chipmunks are duckwing-based. That's why they are often easy to sex -- the males and females look so very different.

OldChurchEggery1, your roosters are not silver, they're actually gold (hence the red on the wing). It's a very common look for EEs.

Black and white in the juvenile plumage does not equal male. Black and white with a patch of red or white on the wing bow (the part that hasn't filled in yet) does. Hang in, TREX, it really is too early to say. The odds of getting two pullets from a bin of hatchery sexed pullets is strongly in your favor.

I hope your right!

I don't have anyone I know that would want to take roos,unless they wanted to eat them.And since these are my daughters who is 12 I doubt she wants her babies eaten.

 

[OldChurchEggery1]

All chipmunks are duckwing-based. That's why they are often easy to sex -- the males and females look so very different.

OldChurchEggery1, your roosters are not silver, they're actually gold (hence the red on the wing). It's a very common look for EEs.

Black and white in the juvenile plumage does not equal male. Black and white with a patch of red or white on the wing bow (the part that hasn't filled in yet) does. Hang in, TREX, it really is too early to say. The odds of getting two pullets from a bin of hatchery sexed pullets is strongly in your favor.

I didn't say that my particular chicks were silver duckwing, just that silver duckwing feathers out black and white in males. I raise Silver Ameraucanas and you can really easily differentiate the pullet and cockerel chicks pretty much as soon as the pins start pushing out the down. My EE chicks in those pictures were out of a hen whose father was a Rhode Island Red so they've got a funky influence from that as well. Pure mutts, those

 

[TREX]

from the front

 

[debid]

I didn't say that my particular chicks were silver duckwing, just that silver duckwing feathers out black and white in males. I raise Silver Ameraucanas and you can really easily differentiate the pullet and cockerel chicks pretty much as soon as the pins start pushing out the down. My EE chicks in those pictures were out of a hen whose father was a Rhode Island Red so they've got a funky influence from that as well. Pure mutts, those

Now I'm confused. You posted chicks that you're saying look just like TREX's chicks but you're also saying that his are black and white silver-based cockerels (which yours are not)?

Why not post some pics of juvenile silver Ameraucanas, both male and female? That would be really helpful for those with silver-based chicks.

 

[Kassaundra]

Here is my boy EE Oreo at about the same age as yours

He is the black and white one, look at his comb then at your darker headed ones comb



girl at the same age she doesn't have a pea, but a large floppy pea comb

diff angle of more of a pea comb in a girl




The differences in the combs at this age are very subtle, I don't think you have anything to worry about in the lighter faced one at all, the darker faced one gives me pause, but it is hard to tell the photo lighting can be decieving, but look closely at the combs and wattles of both birds in the pics the darker headed one seems to have both brighter pink and larger wattle area, is this true in real life?





Looking closer I think the first two pics are about one week older then your two, but the third pic I posted is more the age of your chicks.

 

[OldChurchEggery1]

I only have pics of my silver pullets when they were a few months old, but maybe they'll help. While the silver pullets to have black and while feathering on the head and neck, that does not extend into the wings or breast area.

 

[Tadkins472]

This is i nice thread it is helping me learn about EE. Great chicks Everyone.