The EE braggers thread!!!

[jerryse]

Here are some crele project chicks.I posted these on the other thread also.Crele is auto sexing.This was also a sex link cross.Crele [red] over silver hens.Silver is cockerel and brown pullet.Many of you have the makings for sex links.These also show the barring.Try a red [partridge] rooster over silver hens [black and white].Have fun sexing chicks at day old.Thought I would share the info.

 

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pretty chicks!

 

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Ok I have a few questions. If I want some barred EEs. Should I put a Barred rock roo over an ameraucana hen or an ameraucana roo over barred rock hens? And what color ameraucanas should I use in this cross? I only have BBS. Thanks

 

[ChickNmamma]

Here are some crele project chicks.I posted these on the other thread also.Crele is auto sexing.This was also a sex link cross.Crele [red] over silver hens.Silver is cockerel and brown pullet.Many of you have the makings for sex links.These also show the barring.Try a red [partridge] rooster over silver hens [black and white].Have fun sexing chicks at day old.Thought I would share the info.

IF you can tell me where to get some of those Silver Hens (Black and White) I would be MUCH obliged! All my black and white chicks always ended up being boys!

Its why I want to get Silver AM girls - even though they aren't black and white, but black, white and peach - I still love that pattern.

I don't think my boys were really silver though - because as a chick they were usually yellow chipmunks with the rest of them until first molt, then they turned black and white.

 

[AlpineButterfly]

I've lost 2 of my EE's so far this summer. I would like to get more this spring. Thinking about Ideal Hatchery. Where do the rest of you get yours with all the different colors, blacks, whites, blues etc.?

I got mine from My Pet Chicken. Since it looks like you are on the East Coast, you might have better luck with surviving shipping. Mine shipped from Ohio, and I only had a 60% survival rate... granted I live across the country, and I ordered the minimum order of bantams.

My sexed bantams do appear to be girls, as ordered, and the three easter eggers are all different colors.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/g/a/6451923/easter-egger-bantams/

Here are Edith, Mary, and Sybil at about 11 weeks.

 

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I got mine from My Pet Chicken. Since it looks like you are on the East Coast, you might have better luck with surviving shipping. Mine shipped from Ohio, and I only had a 60% survival rate... granted I live across the country, and I ordered the minimum order of bantams.

My sexed bantams do appear to be girls, as ordered, and the three easter eggers are all different colors.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/g/a/6451923/easter-egger-bantams/

Here are Edith, Mary, and Sybil at about 11 weeks.

They are beautiful, I really like the one holding its foot up.

 

[Hinotori]

Ok I have a few questions. If I want some barred EEs. Should I put a Barred rock roo over an ameraucana hen or an ameraucana roo over barred rock hens? And what color ameraucanas should I use in this cross? I only have BBS. Thanks

If you use a barred hen, all her barred offspring will be male since the barring is a sex linked gene and females only carry one copy while males carry two.

If you use a barred rooster, all his offspring will be barred. Just wait for them to grow up and keep your hens.

I'd use a black bird myself. Apparently one of the splash silkie hens I have carries barring. Her son is blue barred. I don't care for it personally.

 

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If you use a barred hen, all her barred offspring will be male since the barring is a sex linked gene and females only carry one copy while males carry two.

If you use a barred rooster, all his offspring will be barred. Just wait for them to grow up and keep your hens.

I'd use a black bird myself. Apparently one of the splash silkie hens I have carries barring. Her son is blue barred. I don't care for it personally.

Okay, thank you. I definatley wont be using the first one. I have 4 black AMs, so that is good. I just want a few for my flock.

 

[jerryse]

IF you can tell me where to get some of those Silver Hens (Black and White) I would be MUCH obliged! All my black and white chicks always ended up being boys!

Its why I want to get Silver AM girls - even though they aren't black and white, but black, white and peach - I still love that pattern.

I don't think my boys were really silver though - because as a chick they were usually yellow chipmunks with the rest of them until first molt, then they turned black and white.

They are common in ee but usually carry the Columbian gene.Does not matter for sex links.The males were probably split for silver and gold.I will pm you.

 

[2StrayRoos]

I got mine from My Pet Chicken. Since it looks like you are on the East Coast, you might have better luck with surviving shipping. Mine shipped from Ohio, and I only had a 60% survival rate... granted I live across the country, and I ordered the minimum order of bantams.

My sexed bantams do appear to be girls, as ordered, and the three easter eggers are all different colors.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/g/a/6451923/easter-egger-bantams/

Here are Edith, Mary, and Sybil at about 11 weeks.

I got mine from there last year. Six Belgian D'Anvers and three EE bantams. Lost everybody but 1 EE. One of the Belgians was a crossbeak also. Lost most of them at 3-4 months old one at 6 months old and 2 were day olds. The EE's were not bantams they sent standards and already lost 2 at 1 year old this year, so I don't think I want to get any more from them even though they owe me 2 standards. Went thru too much heartbreak. They don't give the Mareks shot for bantams. Hope you have better luck with yours, beautiful birds.