The EE braggers thread!!!

[QueenBubbles]

Wow those birds are beautiful! That's what I like about EE's- they can just look like anything, have any color etc........!!!

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[QueenBubbles]

My EE, Penny Pin-Pin
Baby:

At 4weeks

And 7 weeks

She is so smart! I am looking forward to her extra feathery neck and for her cheek tufts to keep growing!

 

[MistyMountain]

Cielo says hello!!!

 

[CGinJCMO]

Braggin on EE babies that were hatched out by an AustraWhite. I only count seven in the photo but there are eight: 3 yellow, 2 red stripe, 1 brown, 1 black1 and 1 blue/gray. Mama won't let any of the older chicks into the coop so I had to move the feeder out and give her something lower. I hope they can handle the waterer. They were eating the chick feed and scrambled egg just fine.

Think I'll go look in on them now since it's been several hours since I last looked.

CG

 

[QueenBubbles]

Cielo says hello!!!

Cielo is a pretty bird!

 

[juliag103]

Cielo is a pretty bird!

Oh WOW! What color would that be considered?

 

[FVRM]

Oh WOW! What color would that be considered?

No color. It's a mixed bird aka eastrer egger. This pattern is common among easter eggers.

 

[juliag103]

Hello fellow EE enthusiasts! This is the first year I've had chickens, and I have a mixed flock of 17 that includes eight 'Aracauna/Ameracauna' (that's what Family Farm & Home called them) Easter Eggers. I was initially drawn solely to the fact that they laid rainbow colored eggs, but now that they're growing up, I'm loving their amazing color variations, personalities and, of course, their muffs, beards and puffy necks.

My eight EE's (and their flockmates) were purchased in three batches in March, making the oldest about four months old (no eggs yet, but I also haven't put any nesting boxes in, either...):

The first batch had three 'dark partridge' pullets, I suppose, individually identified by head color; one has a black head, another a red head and the last a yellow/orange head. All three have slightly puffy necks.


Pretty gradient coloration. They just don't have muffs and beards.


The 'dark partridge' coloration. Yes, they were roosting on the car hauler...

The second batch had one solid white pullet with muffs, a beard and a puffy neck. The other 'pullet' was a yellow chick with one dark spot on his back (my girlfriend called him 's**tback,' which is what we both thought the dark spot was.) Once this 'pullet' started to feather out, he was a wheaten, or cream color, and his tail feathers started to grow longer. He beefed up, grew a comb and wasn't a pullet anymore. Further, he started to develop a red pyle coloring on top of the wheaten. He also has full muffs, a beard and a puffy neck.


My husbands' sister named her 'Angel.'


I suppose her muffs do look like wings...?
She's the poster child of what I'd like to breed; medium weight body, heavy puffy neck feathering, heavy ear muffs and a full beard. In every color and color combination one could imagine.


Here's Roo! His comb tht flops over his right eye adds more character.


All this coloration from a yellow chick with one dark spot...

The third batch had three different colors in it. One is a red with minimal black pullet that has small muffs, a beard and a puffy neck. Another is blue splash wheaten red pullet with a puffy neck. The final is a 'light partridge' pullet with small muffs, a beard and a puffy neck.

Here's the three as chicks; light partridge, red and blue splash wheaten red.


Light partridge


Blue splash wheaten red (yes her head is blue)


She keeps on molting in more blue


Light partridge


Red

I absolutely love the color variations in these birds! Knowing nothing about adult coloration in baby chicks, the first three I purchased were pretty close in coloration. The remaining five were all over the board. I'm looking forward to eggs this year and, with a move and breeder coop construction in the next month, looking forward to a selective breeding program to focus on the development of very prominent ear muffs, full beards and puffy necks in a wild variety of colors. I would also like to work towards longer tails. I'm not a big fan of rumpless or hen feathered.

I'm sure they'll continue to change colors, as they're molting right now anyway. I hope you like my EE's. And if anyone is also perusing the muffy, bearded puffy neck EE's, let me know. Or if you have a breeding flock of EE's that have the traits I'm looking for, let me know. Or if you just want to talk chickens (or pretty much anything else,) let me know. I've been out on disability for a year now and still have two years to go. Just had surgery number three of eight, so I'm bored a lot,

 

[flynntheduck]

Got this baby today. She is too cute! Any idea what she will look like all grown up?

 

[Crooked House]

I love our three EEs. They are only 12 weeks old so no eggs yet but they are the prettiest birds in our flock. The first one is Esther. She's all white with muffs.
Dovey has beautiful silver and rust coloring with a black head. She also has muffs.
Houdini (she earned her name by being the first to escape our first temporary run. She's secure now in the finished run, lol.) is feathered like many I've seen in this thread. She does not have muffs.

Our whole flock is the three EEs, 5 BOs, 4 Red Stars, 2 Golden Polish (male and female) and a Gold Laced Wyandotte cockerel. All are 12 weeks old.