The EE braggers thread!!!

[ChickNmamma]

Picked this guy up at the sale barn friday.Cerel is auto sexing.I want this color for auto sexing.Do not know what breed or mix he is.He is in isolation for now.So many people want pullets only that I think autosexings time has come.

He is a beautifully patterned bird. How long will it take to breed that in - and which color base will you be using?

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Picked this guy up at the sale barn friday.Cerel is auto sexing.I want this color for auto sexing.Do not know what breed or mix he is.He is in isolation for now.So many people want pullets only that I think autosexings time has come.

Jerry I can send you crele penedesenca and you can breed with your silvers. like I want to do. I have 11 eggs I can ship you tomorrow if you want. just send me some silvers in return

 

[jerryse]

Jerry I can send you crele penedesenca and you can breed with your silvers. like I want to do. I have 11 eggs I can ship you tomorrow if you want. just send me some silvers in return

Deal Pming you

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

why don't you scrable those eggs and feed them back to your hens? they love eggs

I don't have this problem anymore right now, because my flock got almost completley whipped out, but i would just break the eggs in the coop sometimes. I had a golden comet that absolutley loved eggshells.I also had a few that would eat the eggs before i even craked them open, but the ones that did that are now dead. I now collect my eggs everyday. I usually just throw them away or if I am making a trip over to my sisters house I will give them to her. She loves farm fresh eggs and they are free, because she is my sister. But I never take they time to cook the eggs.

 

[TherryChicken]

 

[TherryChicken]

 

[TherryChicken]

 

[jerryse]

He is a beautifully patterned bird. How long will it take to breed that in - and which color base will you be using?

I think 3-5 years will get me there.Silver is my first choice but EE partridge or red will work.In red it would look like Rhodebars.

 

[shanadienne]

I love the colors of your girls.

I bought my EEs from McMurray last year and all of them lay a nice large blue egg. However, all of mine are the brown/black wild pattern chickens.. no pretty white ones like you have. Perhaps if you got a rooster from McMurray he would be Homozygeous for O/O? I gave up on mine (because I got him from the feedstore and he had no muff) and switched to a Blue Isbar instead. At least the female babies will lay green eggs. I just hatched out 8 babies from them, 2 Blue and 6 Black. I also have some upcoming Ameraucana boys I could use.. for Lavender/Isabella EEs down the road..

What's O/O? (I'm shamefully ignorant about chicken genetics.

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And thank you.

 

[ChickNmamma]

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Oh, I am sorry, that is the gene that makes eggs blue. "o" is for white base (that is under brown too), "O" is for blue. When a chicken is O/O it carries two copies of the blue egg gene so all its children will lay blue (or green if brown egg layers are mixed in) eggs, even if the other parent does not carry any copies.