The EE braggers thread!!!

[Sterl18]

Quote: How interesting! I will take pics tomorrow in good light to document, I'm curious to see the changes as they grow. Thank you so much for the information.

 

[draye]

Shouldn't egg color be a major factor classification? Really it is the only common trait within the "breed". Tufts, beards, color, and size varies but shouldn't all EE lay blue/green eggs. I am even culling my pink layers since it is easy to mistake them for light brown.

Yes, I believe egg color should be a factor, even though if I'm not mistaken even the South American imports laid different colored shells. Any who know for sure may correct me on this. I myself only hatch out the green eggs for my Easter Eggers. Even on the crossbred ones, if they have the beard and muffs and peacomb, then I call them EE. If I see any brown eggs I just don't hatch them. I think that maybe I have one no that is going to lay a brown egg, gonna have to try the food color trick to see.

I have only had one adult EE roo, hatchery hatched. He was people aggressive, but awesome w/ the chickens. He was a doting "dad" w/ chicks, danced for the ladies, provided food and treats, protected as best he could, even drawing blood and feathers from a hawk, tolerated other subordinate roos, was beautiful and smart, even knowing and responding to his name. But very people aggressive to me, not to my husband.

He was our first ever roo, and I think I had some responsibility in making him that way, I raised him like a pet and like the hens, have never repeated that w/ any other roos and have never had a problem w/ any since (but none were EE all were NN and 2 arucana)

The tailless tufted ones? Really, I didn't know that and I thought I had read everything you posted on them.

I think I agree...I suspect the EE/BO's are going to look more like BO's with a twist than an EE. It didn't seem right to outright call them EE's, that's why I asked. I googled South American Quecha chickens and I think I'm in solid EE territory with the roo and the hen. I'll have to post pics...this is the bragger's thread after all, and I think they are beautiful!

Good points! Felt like I was holding my breath until my EE laid her first egg...beautiful green egg. And I forgot to mention their legs...isn't leg color a factor? All the EE/BO's have BO leg color. The roo's legs are green. I'm not sure I have a good pic of his legs...darn. Hoping the EE chick with have dark grey/slate legs like the mom.

Everyone can call their chickens what they want. I wasn't trying to pick at you on this, just my personal thoughts. Post pics, everyone really enjoys them. Legs, oh yeah another thing for me, I don't like yeller (did this on purpose) legs on my Easter Eggers. I prefer the slate (blue). Green works okay because it is easier for me to get back to slate legs.

 

[K Epp]

This is so funny because I was asked by two older lady's to get a pink egg layer as they really would like to get some in with the green, white light tan, brown and blue egg's .....  But I do believe the older lady's are the only ones who ever ask me to get different color egg's but every time I get a different color everyone else winds up wanting them .......  

I gave some eggs to a lady I work with. She told me those brown eggs taste so good. I wanted to slap my hand on my forehead as I explains that they all eat the same thing at my house and its the running around the yard and woods that make them taste that way not the shell color. She may have passed out if I told her they eat bugs, snakes and anything else they could catch.

 

[LaLa Chickie]

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[fuzzybutt love]

Pink eggs are pink. Light brown are light brown; ee egg color blue runs through the inside of the shell. A true pink egg is pink inside and out! I have "tinted" d'uccle and sussex eggs that look pink but are white underneath the shell membrane. The one girl i had that laid the pink was too proud and noisy about it and the roo i had hated her so i let her go. Been searching every since. Hers was crayon pink all the way through just like a blue one would be. If it ever popped up in my line i would start a seperate breeding program for it. It would be a throwback gene, not from brown egg crosses so if you have been crossing out to browns that is probably light brown but if not take a peek at that inside!

 

[fuzzybutt love]

A couple look pink but are actually ligh brown tint and white inside

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Sorry for the multi posts i was trying to get it all out before errands

Ok my 2 cents on roos: i have had a few lapcat roos. It is something they must be born with. I can tame anything but one that has strong instinct will never willingly jump up to you, and might resent your efforts. He will take treats from hand and be gentle at your feet. If you are free ranging a lot a lap roo is not desirable. The personality is too laid back and i don't think they would last long. If you are going to be going in yo their coop/pen while the roo is in there you want to select the big wusses since the instinctual boys might resent the closeness to their food amd hens. I pick up the girls and sit in there with them; the roos i let be wild eventually turned on me. Their offspring got wild at puberty as well. My first pet roo got aggressive after a neighbor kid antagonized him through the fence in the wee hours of the morning for who knows how long before i caught him. He hadn't been around people other than myself and so i was the only one after who could go near him. Almost 2 years later i finally have another nice boy, a blr wyendotte mix i got as a juvenile at auction. This boy decided that he needs hugs and often won't settle down and eat until i have held him. Pulls at my pantleg like the girls do. I keep him locked away from the kids so they cant tease him and have been working on building and keeping his trust

 

[JackieandChicks]

My two week old EE's! The black ones all have either all black (I assume will be slate blue) legs or mostly black legs. I hatched those from my girls & I assume my silverroo who has slate gray legs (I have a few roos running with the girls - this was a "just see if I can do it hatch). The two with the brown/red in the front I think my red roo is the father as they have yellow legs. The one yellow with all the brown tweeding - crapshoot who is dad - I also have a black roo who is second in command. The others (three yellow, three silver) chicks are from Townline and are for sure pullets. One of the black I am thinking is a roo as he already gets huffy with me at times. I have two black bantam EEs who I suspect are the moms of the black ones as they are laying fools and I would not mind getting some daughters from them. Giant eggs for such little hens (although not tiny girls, just half the size of my other EEs).

Any guesses on colors for fun?

Thanks!

 

[gander007]

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Ho that is so true lots of bugs but as with most things a lot of people do not think about what goes in to the making of food but yet will open up a can and pour their dinner in to a pan and heat and call it good but the trough of the matter is what is in the can is far nastier then anything from the farm also harder on the body ....

 

[gander007]

My two week old EE's! The black ones all have either all black (I assume will be slate blue) legs or mostly black legs. I hatched those from my girls & I assume my silverroo who has slate gray legs (I have a few roos running with the girls - this was a "just see if I can do it hatch). The two with the brown/red in the front I think my red roo is the father as they have yellow legs. The one yellow with all the brown tweeding - crapshoot who is dad - I also have a black roo who is second in command. The others (three yellow, three silver) chicks are from Townline and are for sure pullets. One of the black I am thinking is a roo as he already gets huffy with me at times. I have two black bantam EEs who I suspect are the moms of the black ones as they are laying fools and I would not mind getting some daughters from them. Giant eggs for such little hens (although not tiny girls, just half the size of my other EEs).

Any guesses on colors for fun?

Thanks!

I have had only a couple of black EE's over the years and yes as they grow it always goes to more of a slate blue depending on how the sun hits it ....

Good looking bunch of chicks ...