The EE braggers thread!!!

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Great Story and Outstanding picture of the fierce protector !!!!

 

[BLaBauve]

I am really excited about this EE chick, well I think she's an EE anyways! I've never seen one this color. Her wing tips coming in are white so far.

 

[Payette]

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AWWW! She ( or he! ) is SOOOO cute! I'm not sure what she is, but she's adorable!!!!'

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[Payette]

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I have a hen that we thought was an Easter Egger, but she's laying brown eggs. Do Easter Eggers lay brown eggs? I know they're her eggs because I have seen her laying them, not sitting on someone else's. I thought I'd ask the experienced Easter Egger owners. Does anyone know why her eggs are brown? She looks EXACTLY like an Easter Egger. Maybe she's just a different breed than we thought?

 

[victoriamarie1138]

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What a cutie! I love her.

 

[BLaBauve]

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I have a hen that we thought was an Easter Egger, but she's laying brown eggs. Do Easter Eggers lay brown eggs? I know they're her eggs because I have seen her laying them, not sitting on someone else's. I thought I'd ask the experienced Easter Egger owners. Does anyone know why her eggs are brown? She looks EXACTLY like an Easter Egger. Maybe she's just a different breed than we thought?

Often times EE's lay brown on pinkish eggs. Not all of them have the blue/green egg gene.

 

[speckledhen]

Here is Chipper, a super-friendly Delaware/EE cross boy. He's almost 7 weeks old and I think will make a stunning rooster for someone's flock. I don't have a good place for him here at the moment and I'm not sure when his broody mama will start to reject him and his two "siblings" so he's up for grabs. The barred chick in the top right of the first pic has the same dad, but a different EE mama.

 

[GwenDellAnno]

EE's are mutt chickens, usually of americauna or auracauna stock (they both carry a double blue gene) crossed with some other breed. In the resulting offspring, the blue color gene is closely linked with the pea comb. If you want the seafoam green eggs, that would be a light brown layer crossed with an EE that has the blue egg gene. And to get really olive eggs you'd want to cross your green egged EE again with a darker brown layer. So... to get a pink egg, you'd want to cross say a leghorn (white egg) with something that lays a brown egg... say like a barred rock or RIR. (Your EE's with a single comb will likely either be brown or white layers).

This is a very simple explanation of egg colour genetics and I'm sure there are many exceptions to these generalizations. Depending on how many generations removed from the parent stock your EE is, it can have any variety of eggs and as I determined on another thread, once it doesn't carry the blue egg gene (ie. it would likely have the pea comb and lay the green/olive eggs) then it will lay brown/pink or white eggs and no longer be considered an EE, just a "mutt" chicken.

Although I would still consider it a pretty chicken and it would be valued for it's ability to lay eggs.

 

[vegaschick]

Here's Cassi, Pene, and Jules. They have beard, muffs and pea combs. They have willow and/or slate colored legs. They lay light brown, rosy/pinkish-brown, and cream colored eggs. I think they are still EE's, just my opinion, cuz they add to the diversity of colors in my egg basket.

 

[jeremy]

Cynthia, Chipper looks a "rusty" Delaware! It should be interesting to see how he feathers out as he matures.