The EE braggers thread!!!

[Hinotori]

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His father is a wheaten ameraucana. Mother is a hatchery EE. That's why he looks like he does.

Here is one of his half sisters. Same type of crossing, just different EE hen.

 

[jerryse]

His father is a wheaten ameraucana. Mother is a hatchery EE. That's why he looks like he does.

Here is one of his half sisters. Same type of crossing, just different EE hen.

Ahh so you did know his breeding ! My guess on the AM thread proved correct. I have seen posts of people using ameraucana x EE for egg color. It is harder to guess on these but possible. The hen/pullet is wheaten like but shows the influence of the EE hen color. The guess of brown red is wrong because of the color in the wing bay. On brown red it would be black (crow wing family). I will attach a pic of a bantam brown red male for reference.

 

[Indigosands]

Oh these are neat! I just hatched some EE's fathered by a blue wheaten boy, one of them looks like a really dark wheaten girl and I was curious what she would look like grown! I've been surprised that the EE coloring didn't take over the genetics as much as I thought it would. I bred them for the reasons pp suggested, I wanted to keep a bit of the wild type of the EE's and egg laying while improving the body type and egg color.

 

[Hinotori]

The brown red is rather interesting.

On the EE x wheaten am cross, I'm wondering what the offspring of these pullets will look like if crossed back to another wheaten male. I'm curious how many generations it would take for the females to actually look wheaten. I've been trying to keep just purebred roosters, but this boy knows his place so I'm not out to just get rid of him right now. I have a couple wheaten females in the laying flock that I may breed him to. I've got an incubator now, so I'm not at the mercy of the silkies anymore.

 

[Hinotori]

Here are the other two pullets from that hatch. They do look like the wheaten just lightened the EE coloring.




Progression of them

7-17



9-3




9-14




10-5

 

[jerryse]

The brown red is rather interesting.

On the EE x wheaten am cross, I'm wondering what the offspring of these pullets will look like if crossed back to another wheaten male. I'm curious how many generations it would take for the females to actually look wheaten. I've been trying to keep just purebred roosters, but this boy knows his place so I'm not out to just get rid of him right now. I have a couple wheaten females in the laying flock that I may breed him to. I've got an incubator now, so I'm not at the mercy of the silkies anymore.

Well about 50% of the chicks should be wheaten. In livestock this is up grading or breeding up. Wheaten chicks hatch yellow or yellow with a very small dark spot on the head. Stripes or partial stripes and they will not be truly wheaten. So mark your chicks with the correct color. That way you know when they are grown. Intermediate color hens are noticeable but roosters will likely be impossible to tell apart when grown.

 

[Hinotori]

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I'm hoping to hatch them at separate times as well. I didn't mean to hatch a wheaten chick last time. The hen just had other ideas on where to lay her egg. When I hatch a few wheaten chicks later on, I will have the rooster separated with my two chosen wheaten hens where he can't even see an EE. Only way I'm going to get fertile wheaten eggs from him since he likes the EEs better. I have colored zip ties on adult birds so I can tell them apart. I write down what colors and legs bands are on.

 

[cabinchicky]

Hi, has anyone had a hen start laying and as she aged her egg color changed?? I have one who lays almost white to a pale pale blue. I have 4 EEs and know who the egg go to after much time spent stalking them in the box and hearing the song.

 

[gander007]

Yes the color of the eggs do tend to fade as the hen's get older just all part of the life cycle ...
The egg is white as with all eggs to start with but as the egg moves through the hen it get's
its color and as the hen ages she tends to run out of ink you could say so the egg's get
lighter in color and the hen also tends to lay fewer egg's each week .......

gander007

 

[RockerHen]

My cuckoo marans/EE cross and her first egg below, on left.




My two EE pullets.

This one has a jet black head, but the rest of her body is grayish/gold.

And this one is blue. I love how blue looks on smooth-feathered birds.