The EE braggers thread!!!

[bamitsbrittany]

My EE Jill just laid her first egg today! Im so excited

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[chickydoos]

Congratulations brittany!!! Thats so exciting! Beautiful egg color too from a gorgeous hen!

 

[bamitsbrittany]

Congratulations brittany!!! Thats so exciting! Beautiful egg color too from a gorgeous hen!

thank you! I was soooo excited today when I saw her laying it! I feel like I have waited forever! I have hand raised these babies.

=]

 

[Kassaundra]

Exciting, and such a pretty hen, and nice color egg to boot. I kept my first egg, it was also my first colored egg.

 

[Summer98]

Here is one of my new EE chicks, which really stood apart from the rest in coloration and size. Day old here.


And now the same EE at three weeks old. He/She is very friendly compared to the other EE chicks. I can't believe the change is color patterns. Does anyone else have a similar looking one?

 

[Penny Hen]

The bears here in Ga are the black bears. The are non aggressive and will run away easily. If we had seen him lurking around we would have gone outside and clapped our hands and told it to "Go Home!" and it would have run away. But, we didn't see it and we are sure it only went in to get the chicken feed...at first. But, bears are opportunist and having gotten in and eaten all the feed, and seeing all those chickens squawking around, well he couldn't pass it up! We don't hate the bears or the hawks (killed three of my young ones this year), they are beautiful creatures and are only trying to survive. We are concerned that the bear has come so close....the coop and run is only 6 feet away from the bottom of our apartment stairs at the back of the main house. It has been on our decks before getting the bird feeders. So now, no feeders, at least at night! We have named all the deer, bears and geese that come and visit. Don't know which one this is as I haven't seen it yet. The game camera needs batteries. Will get some today. Anyway, I am lucky to have friends who have offered me some chickens (same types as I lost). And, it is very hard losing our "friends" like that and having to take their name plates off the coop door!

I don't live in a bear area but I have always thought that a coop built of cordwood construction (using cordwood as bricks) would stand a good chance against a bear or cougar. Now Premier 1 does sell an electronet fence that is rated for bears and cougars. I know a shepherd in Colorado that baits her wire electric fence with strips of aluminum foil with peanut butter smeared on them. When the coyotes (or bears) lick the peanut butter, they get the full shock in the mouth and develop an extreme avoidance response to her fences.

 

[Penny Hen]

Is there a name for this pattern on my roo?

Looks like a silver with red leakage on the wings. I believe that would be a combination of the silver and the red pyle color patterns. Does he have a blue bar on his wings? If so then he is a silver duck wing. There are no standards of pure bred colors in EEs but you can identify some of the color patterns by observation. Of course they can be hiding lots of other patterns that are recessive and only come out in their offspring. Are the hackle feathers on his lower back also reddish or are they lemon yellow? If yellow that can indicate another gene at work. He is a lovely colored roo.

 

[bamitsbrittany]

Exciting, and such a pretty hen, and nice color egg to boot. I kept my first egg, it was also my first colored egg.

Thank you! Yes I am soo excited. Plus eveyone kept telling me this hens colors were more rooish colors and that she was secretly a boy! =] hahhaa


now for the other 6 birds to start laying that would be great!


This is Remi in the pool chillin out beating the heat!



All the birds have united into one flock now! SO happy to see them together and not separated all over the yard!

 

[Peach2u]

Sorry for your bear problem. We have black bears in our area too. But they stick to the dump area. You can't beat free garbage as a bear! We built our coop to keep out everything but humans and bears. Not a lot of things can keep a hungry bear out. Ours is built out of 4x4's, 2x4's 3/4 plywood with concrete siding. Hardware cloth in every crack screwed down also over the window. The hatch has a 40lbs dead weight door inside the wall on a pulley system. The kids can open the hatch via rope. With the hatch down you cant open it with your hands. So if the rope ever breaks we we'll have to take off the out side wall to get to it. Having a window in the coop is nice in the summer. But that is the weak point. Only thing between something hungry and my chickens is the hardware cloth screwed to the plywood. At least the window is 4 1/2 ' off the ground. Here's an older pix with the siding not finished nor is the roof. The coop is 8'x4'. I can stand up in the coop in front of the window. It starts at 4 foot tall in the back up to 6' at the nest boxes. There is a feed closet on the end on the out side. I have 2 55gal drums in it plus tools. The whole coop with run is 16'x12'




The fenced in area is 10'x20' I have a converted rabbit hutch in there that has 2 nest boxes off the back for broody's. Also we have bird netting across the top of it, and chicken wire over the fence. This is used as the day time grow out pen.It keeps the hawk bait's safe, yet they can still forge. This fall we plan on adding a couple nest boxes on the outside wall inside the run. This year I had too many broody's at one time and not enough private areas for them. I'll put removable doors on them so they wont be used as nest boxes in the day. But the new mom's will have a safe place at night away from other chickens to keep babies warm.

 

[chicken pickin]

Here are my new EE babies. They are Cream Legbar x SLCochin.