The EE braggers thread!!!

[Illia]

I'd say cockerel then. And good on ya for looking deep in there for young saddle feathers!

 

[redrooster99]

I'd say cockerel then. And good on ya for looking deep in there for young saddle feathers!

Thank you I kinda hope and kinda don't hope it is a cockeral.

 

[sekeyslaks]

What speckled heads are you referring to? The speckled chick shown recently is just a young plumage phase, it will change as it grows up. Most Easter Eggers are simply wheaten, duckwing, or partridge types with a few random genes that make for their differences, such as melanizer, blue, columbian, to name some. No Easter Egger has true mottling except for homemade types. (mottling as in the mottled gene, what makes white tips on the feathers) However if you mean a colored bird with black tips on every feather, that would be spangling, which can be done but you'd have to introduce the pattern gene into your flock, most likely via non-Easter Eggers, then continue breeding and knowing what you're doing. Get some homozygous (pure) Columbian, perhaps some pure Wheaten (so, choose only mostly solid brown/orange hens or white hens with little amounts of black in the neck and tail) then introduce the pattern gene into those. Make sure your roosters of choice do not have solid black or mostly black breasts, but instead have either red, white, or red with black tips or white with black tips on the breast.

lllia I'm talking about the mottling that makes white tipped feather's that some EE's get on their heads sometimes,one of my EE hens has it and I know someone on BYC posted a picture on this thread of their hen that had mottling on the head!I was just wondering whether that is something I can expand to the whole body,since I have a hen that is mottled on the head.Call it curiosity!

 

[Chick77]

Mine just turned 5 weeks today! She's finally more feathered in and is looking as if she will be a beautiful bird. Still quite a ways to go until I can get any eggs though...

Cute chickg

 

[ChickyChickens]

Cute chickg

X2!

 

[ladysmith]

Hi everyone. I am new to this thread and have a question! Have any of you bread an ameraucana with a leghorn? How did that work out?
Thank you.

 

[Illia]

I'm sure it would work like most other crosses. Is it a true Ameraucana or is it an Easter Egger? You'll likely end up with a light blue, green, or brown layer depending on the parentage, the bird will lay pretty well, and its color will be dependent on the Leghorn's color. Is it a white? I don't recall if white Leghorns are recessive or not, I think they are, so the offspring will end up mostly black with varying amounts of gold in the neck (and back in males)

 

[ladysmith]

Thanks Illia, I currently have a splash ameraucana rooster and was planning on getting some white leghorn pullet chicks in the spring and thought of breeding them the following spring....

 

[Illia]

If he really is a splash Ameraucana, you'll get 100% blue offspring granted the Leghorns are recessive white. If not they'll all be white. They'll have small beard/muffs and lay light blue eggs.

 

[ladysmith]

Sounds very interesting! I guess I'll have to wait and see
I was just going to get hatchery leghorns, as I can't find any breeders around here.
I have 10 ameraucana chickens, one roo as I mentioned. 2 of them turned out to EEs