The EE braggers thread!!!

[sloallie10]

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In my batch I had 3 yellow chicks, two have turned out pure white w/ muff and beard, the third turned out (sorry don't know the technical terms) apricot colored w/ white, more apricot towards the head side, more white towards the tail side. Her name is Chantilly, I have a pic of her several pages back at age 8 wks.

Your babies are cute!!!

Thanks! I hope she turns out white! But I dont think she will. She is a mix and I dont think she has any white parents, if that makes a difference (?)

 

[SteveH]

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She was gorgeous ; sorry for your loss .

 

[BookWorm243]

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She was gorgeous ; sorry for your loss .

Thank You

 

[Medicine Man]

So sorry to hear about Abby, she was absotuley gorgeous. I love the black hackles, I want to say that's a common signature in S. America but I don't remember (it's in Resolution's thread I think).

Some of mine I m sorting the NA Quechua from the EEs (the line is fuzzy I know but it's there for me...you can see how much Eurasian blood is in them or not in them - the ones in S. American had it jujst the same, originally less, now sadly probably more(?))

Perfection!

Just a fun photo. The one at 9 oclock is not the mom above.

I think this one is already in here

She's perfect other than white earlobes

six peeps from a new source to eveluate them, but only two have made it to six wieks. Never had such hard predators - everybody all over town this year!

EEs

the rooster was killed by an owl. i put a biggerrooster in there and did some other things and the owl hasn't been around lately. I hope he doesnt.
(well it wasn't the bigger rooster, i just mentioned that anyway. that guy battled the owl for 200 meters)
the hen in the background is something extra wonderful. I'l try to get photos of her eggs tomorrow

 

[Kassaundra]

Medicine man, I've heard you refer to the difference in Quechua and EE several times but I'm a bit fuzzy on your meaning. The ancestory that gives them the winter face (if I understand resolution correctly which I wouldn't put money on!!!!) is quechua, and the fact that they have been crossed w/ basically any/everything under the sun makes them EE? So are you looking for a quail color, slim body type female? any other trait (oh yea no white earlobes)? And what do you plan on breeding w/ male wise? Red jungle fowl? or some other Jungle fowl? Are you trying for the type at the worlds fair that resolution refers to? IF so do you have pics of what you are aiming for? Are you aiming for preservation of an ancient "wild" type breed, or for acceptance in the chicken show world? A lot of questions I'm sorry just very curious, you and resolution tend to go over my newbie head

, but I enjoy reading both of your posts (can't say I understand most of it, but I'm trying)

 

[Medicine Man]

Thanks Kassaundra, I'm no academic scholar though.

The goal to me is just to get what I think looks like a nice snapshot of perfection in the timeline in the race's evolution. or de-evolution, thanks to invasion of production stock genes. I suppose that is about the time of the Worlds Fiar Quechua because I think that's when the blue eggs came in? I have to go back and read often too. Although I think the prior ones laid stoney gray as does the hen in the first photo - that wold be even nicer of that's the case. I want my line to look on the wild side and and is savvy and fit enough to have actually been running around and thriving in the native habitat (if thats a correct word, native, I mean streets and villages and free ranging S. America). And as little Eurasian blood as possible. But if you saw the photo of Dottie the 20-years-old hen from Canada (Chilean eggs?), she has white earlobes. That is an important thing to note - how close, how very close, our current hatcherieys' EE stock still is. You can mutt these birds, but they cling to their culture.

Yes I think the difference between what I consider them is just a few traits such as you mentioned. That's where I'm starting. For the rooster I hope to get one of those old, old strains which predated* them - unkown at this time which. This was all born of a plan to simply use an APA Ameraucana and develop a line of true blue EEs and then with reading into what EEs actually are, voila! here I am. Its been a couple+ jears of thinking.

I cant embed youtubes here(?) but this is a beautiful one with present day Quechua Indians. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2gWdiiuspk

*predated - came before them in time. (not ate them like a pred.)

 

[Medicine Man]

I think I've said it before, it's unfortunate that the blue egg gene is dominant. This leads to people crossing them with everything and calling them all Easter Eggers - "mutt chicken that carries the blue egg gene".

[whisper] APA Ameraucanas are the mutts - they dipped into other breeds more recently than some EE stock!

 

[Kassaundra]

That video was beautiful. Those were some amazing landscapes, beautiful native peoples and culture. Our home has such wonderful diversity never ceases to amaze me.

 

[Kassaundra]

So you don't want the blue egg, but a stone grey color? Or are you saying the blue is so desirable to most people that it has led to the dilution of the true quechua w/ everything else?

 

[Medicine Man]

Yes, exactly. It's value has been its demise if that can make sense. I need to do more reading, I want whatever is most correct and I don't know what that is certainly. The hen in the first pictures lays a stoney-gray egg and the others are mostly blue. Only one has green and that is just pastel mint.