The EE braggers thread!!!

[Peep-Chicken]

Excuse me if I asked before...

Are olive eggers and Easter eggers basically the same bird since EEs can lay any egg color?

 

[lbrykowski2011]

Finally a green egg!!! But it's only 1.45 oz! I know the first egg is usually small but that small?! How much bigger can I expect it to get if it's peewee sized now??

 

[chicken pickin]

Excuse me if I asked before...

Are olive eggers and Easter eggers basically the same bird since EEs can lay any egg color?

Basically yes but for selling purposes and such they are separated into their own category. EEs are a purposeful cross to achieve blue and green eggs, the reason they are said to lay any color is because on occasion they will lay white or brown if they don't get the colored gene from one of the parents, they aren't crossed to create an Olive Egg. Olive eggers are purposeful cross of a blue/green egg layer and a dark brown egg layer to achieve various shades Olive green only(though on occasion green and brown occur). So the mating are different and are crosses of different breeds. So yes they both lay colored eggs and can look very similar but I would consider them to be 2 different birds.

 

[Peep-Chicken]

Basically yes but for selling purposes and such they are separated into their own category. EEs are a purposeful cross to achieve blue and green eggs, the reason they are said to lay any color is because on occasion they will lay white or brown if they don't get the colored gene from one of the parents, they aren't crossed to create an Olive Egg. Olive eggers are purposeful cross of a blue/green egg layer and a dark brown egg layer to achieve various shades Olive green only(though on occasion green and brown occur). So the mating are different and are crosses of different breeds. So yes they both lay colored eggs and can look very similar but I would consider them to be 2 different birds.

Thank you!

 

[kenzier093]

Here is one of my EE's, It's supposed to be a pullet, but I am starting to think it's a roo. It's comb is starting to turn more red than the other EE's I have and it's legs are thicker. What do you all think?

 

[Kassaundra]

Here is one of my EE's, It's supposed to be a pullet, but I am starting to think it's a roo. It's comb is starting to turn more red than the other EE's I have and it's legs are thicker. What do you all think?

I don't see anything that screams boy yet.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I don't see anything that screams boy yet.

I agree

 

[CarolinaHen]

I ag

Here is one of my EE's, It's supposed to be a pullet, but I am starting to think it's a roo. It's comb is starting to turn more red than the other EE's I have and it's legs are thicker. What do you all think?

Can you get a closer pic of the saddle feathers and comb? I don't see anything that screams boy yet either.

 

[gloryblue]

Can you get a closer pic of the saddle feathers and comb?  I don't see anything that screams boy yet either.

Love this thread and wish I could help too, guess it's easier to compare with chicks the same age. Guess I need to take a class or something, lol back a century ago....1980 I had a hundred "Aracaunas" (EEs really) they came I. Every body type, shape, size, color feature, and combination of features too. To the best of my recollection in that batch, pretty much all the cockerels were silver duck wings or variations. I didn't learn a thing on sexing them as when last summer I went back to add a few more chicks to my EEs I'd bought the week before, the three I picked were all hree ending up roos out of a pullet batch. LOL, I think these would be called "Jubilee " with blue splash, white based with blue splash, red shoulders, some red to a lot of red coming on the saddle or mixed with th blue splash on the hackles.
Even when these were feathering out to the degree this bird is here pictured, I thought they were pullets still. A few of the girls were as large or larger and even more bossy or even more of a bully than these three boys. Of course when I started to see sex feathers, the shiny skinny feathers coming in and saw much more tail feathers and longer more proudly held upright, it was only then I started to see they were boys.

Does anyone here know how to vent check a younger fluffy chick? I'm getting some more chicks. Trying to be better prepared as these will be straight run, ??

By the colloring alone on this chick pictured above I'd guess a pullet though.

 

[Angelicisi]

Well my easter egger broody hen has adopted our batch of 9 week old Cornish cross...cute but A. They don't need help finding food lol and B. What happens when we process the Cornish?! she's gonna freak out...