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Dmontgomery said:
We bought 4 EE's, 4 BR's, 5 RIR's, and 19 RSL's this spring. Only the EE's look different enough that I can tell who's who. I don't know enough about them to know why one is silver, one is white, one tan, and one brown, but I know they don't look alike. We know the first big egg was Stella. The 2nd egg might have been her or Snow White. We weren't sure.
They are all about 5 months old (hatched 3/26). The RIR's started laying last week. The EE's this past weekend.

Stella's 1st egg is on the left. 2nd egg is from somebody, her or Snow White. The others are RIR's and an OEGB from the weekend.
3 eggs Sunday, 4 yesterday. 33 layers coming of age by the end of Sept. hopefully.
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Congrats...Can't wait till mine all start laying. I still have the one mystery egg that I don't know where it came from. My Liberty (amerecauna) lays her large blue egg almost daily, my Lavern (brahma) lays a small tan egg every couple of days, and I had a medium white egg (just one about a week or two ago) that we aren't sure who laid. Out of the hens old enough I have another brahma and a black star.
 
Dmontgomery said:
We bought 4 EE's, 4 BR's, 5 RIR's, and 19 RSL's this spring. Only the EE's look different enough that I can tell who's who. I don't know enough about them to know why one is silver, one is white, one tan, and one brown, but I know they don't look alike. We know the first big egg was Stella. The 2nd egg might have been her or Snow White. We weren't sure.
They are all about 5 months old (hatched 3/26). The RIR's started laying last week. The EE's this past weekend.

Stella's 1st egg is on the left. 2nd egg is from somebody, her or Snow White. The others are RIR's and an OEGB from the weekend.
3 eggs Sunday, 4 yesterday. 33 layers coming of age by the end of Sept. hopefully.
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your specific breeds will all look similar, its what makes them a breed and you need to keep breeding them to the same to keep them a breed,
on the other hand, EEs arent, which is what makes them EEs, imagine taking one of each breed of your hens and crossing it with an araucana, or ameraucana or for that matter a legbar
you will get different coloured EEs, im not even sure if an EE has to be bred with a blue egg layer to be an EE, but i do know, because an EE is a 1st generation, it wont breed true, so the offspring may not carry over the blue gene which is why their young and all EEs can lay any colour egg including brown and pink.

the araucana was bred over 10 generations, you take a load of clean faced rumpless birds and mate them to a load of tufted tailed birds, then select young that are tufted, rumpless and lay blue eggs and breed them together, select and breed, and again, again, then you have a "new breed" that will carry genes from parents to young. ie an EE that breeds true and named after cuban indians,

you could say the legbar and ameraucana and the araucana strains in euro and britain, were all EEs at one time too

nothing stopping you making your own breed of EEs and getting it recognized.
i think the orpaucana is a cool choice big green tinted egg from big birds, often, and good for meat too.



i would just have to breed a load of these
 
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@junebuggena @duluthralphie - I'm not afraid to admit - I think you were both right about my bird being a rooster! After our discussion, I checked him/her DAILY! Sometimes the ring would go in a circular motion - then the next time it would go back and forth. I've never had that happen before and it was kind of weird! I was ready to wait it out and see if I get a crow or an egg, but the little bugger started mating with my SHOE... several times a day. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that is rooster behavior? I didn't wait it out an ended up taking him back to the feed store I got him from. I met a fellow there who has a lot of acreage in the country and who's daughter fell in love with him.
 
jerryse said:

New chicks today . Only 3 from the auto sexing EE pen this time . 2 boys on left 1 girl on right .
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I know this is an old post, but does anyone else want to show off some Autosexing EEs? And if you have some could you share where you aquired them or what breeds you used to develop them. I am very interested in developing some autosexing EEs. I was thinking of using in some Rainbow Dixies to make give them better meat qualities, earlier development, better winter laying, plus the barred gene needed for autosexing.
 
QuoVadis said:
I know this is an old post, but does anyone else want to show off some Autosexing EEs? And if you have some could you share where you aquired them or what breeds you used to develop them. I am very interested in developing some autosexing EEs. I was thinking of using in some Rainbow Dixies to make give them better meat qualities, earlier development, better winter laying, plus the barred gene needed for autosexing.
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I am new to chickens. What does autosexing mean?
 

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