The EE braggers thread!!!

[bruceha2000]

Thanks junebuggena, you are a wealth of information.

 

[jerryse]

Here is one of my EE cockerels .

 

[duluthralphie]

Of course the hard part is that there is no sticker on the outside that says "blue egg gene inside".

Is it not possible that a hen that looks like an Ameraucana except for proper color could lay a brown egg but if crossed with an Ameraucana rooster could throw chicks that lay blue eggs? Does the hen need 2 blue egg genes to lay blue?

I have taken the "gene" stuff out of the equation way to hard to follow. I simply feed my hens ground up color crayon, on the you are what you eat theory...

 

[annabellaknits]

Need advice on two subjects. I bred my olive egger with great success, F2. How do you breed to guarantee the olive egg genes? Or can you not? Also I really want to breed to produce a Seafoam green egg to create a rainbow dozen, I have the blues and darker green but nothing in between. Don't tell me to mix a light brown layer with a blue because that's how I got my olive egger? Don't know why there so dark? So what to breed to get the Seafoam egg color?

 

[annabellaknits]

Need advice on two subjects. I bred my olive egger with great success, F2. How do you breed to guarantee the olive egg genes? Or can you not? Also I really want to breed to produce a Seafoam green egg to create a rainbow dozen, I have the blues and darker green but nothing in between. Don't tell me to mix a light brown layer with a blue because that's how I got my olive egger? Don't know why there so dark? So what to breed to get the Seafoam egg color?

 

[duluthralphie]

Have you tried breeding the olive egger back to a brother?

Or line breeding back to the father?

I am just asking, as that is what I do, and it is just hit or miss. for me, but I would think it is there and is just a matter of "cementing" in the genes you want.

 

[annabellaknits]

Have you tried breeding the olive egger back to a brother?

Or line breeding back to the father?

I am just asking, as that is what I do, and it is just hit or miss. for me, but I would think it is there and is just a matter of "cementing" in the genes you want.

I have chicks now that are back to a step brother(same roo different hen parents)
Any guesses for a Seafoam layer?

 

[duluthralphie]

I have chicks now that are back to a step brother(same roo different hen parents)
Any guesses for a Seafoam layer?

I have some kind of seafoam eggs. BUT mainly I am getting blue eggs now. I am actually trying to get some olives back. I have a Partridge Chanticler going over two of my Blue laying EE's.

I am hoping I can find a little roo out of an green egg I want this year and fingers crossed breed it back next year


I have found I need to keep better records of which chick comes from where, I have now changed to a 8 color band system. From what I understand, if you can find a brother that has the same color or close and breed back it will "cement" the gene. Now Chicken egg color is kind of a mystery to me.

However, I have been doing that with turkey feather color, that is easier because I can look at the toms and hens and know what genes they are carrying, and I know what their grandparents had. By knowing that I know what they have that is dominant and what the recessive alleles are.

Porters has a great color calculator on their web site. To help figure out the odds of (Punnet square) of each turkey producing the color offspring I want.


We need something like that for chickens. Even so it would take us a few generations to figure out which each chicken carries. But it would increase the odd over the hit and miss we mainly do now.

 

[ICB42]

My newest members of my flock... They are 11 days old!! I grabbed all the brown looking ones in hopes there is no roosters!! We also got two Ducks!!! We are so excited!!!

 

[TheChickenQueen]

I have five EEs and two OEs that were last years pullets, there was a sixth but it turned out to be a rooster. I love my EEs I had problems with dogs killing my birds for years but after moving I got lucky and haven't lost any! It makes me so happy to see a bunch of blue eggs when I go out there and collect.


I also have a question for anyone who can answer

What color eggs would you get from crossing a blue or blue-green laying hens with Orpington roosters who I'm pretty sure their sisters lay light brown eggs? How about olive laying hens?
I'll be hatching chicks soon and I'm trying to get some color ideas.

Thanks!