The EE braggers thread!!!

[SunnyDawn]

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Looks like the milk man may have been visiting!

As a lover of EE, I'm glad the milkman had muffs and beard.

Kinda ironic I get some non EE eggs to hatch out crosses for my EEs, and one turns out to be one.

Sounds like a happy mistake.

Hey everybody here are my newest arrivals...

Even still wet you can see their muffs and beards! They are a lot poofier now though that they are dried out. Still I couldn't resist the half wet pic. They've already imprinted. The whole time I was trying to take their pic they kept jumping up and running toward me full tilt with their wings out. It was so cute!!! Luckily for me they were still wobbly so I just had to snap the pic real fast.

They are crosses between my wheaten ameraucanas and my black ameraucana roo. Since they don't meet any variety standards I'm calling them EEs. EEs that will lay a very pretty blue egg with a hint of minty green (that is if I get any girls).

 

[babyrnlc]

I have another question about ee. Ok if an ameraucan does not meet the standards it becomes an ee? Right? It is all based on the standard.

This still confuses me. We used to breed cocker spaniels and cockatiels. There were show quality and pet quality. If the animal did not meet the standard they should not be bred or shown. But it did not change the breed. And sometimes you would have great champion blood lines and still get a pet quality animal.

I do not want fights I am just trying to figure this out. I mean if hatcheries used ameraucana "pet quality" blood lines and keep breeding (which should not be done which doesn't improve the breed) but even though they are pet quality not show would they still not be the "breed" ameraucana?

 

[Wild Trapper]

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Love the color, well I do like EEs best, mostly for their non standard colors. Life would be boring if they were all the same color.

here's hoping you get some girls out of them

 

[jennifersmith326]

Here are my two white EEs

 

[Wild Trapper]

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Nice, I like the one in the foreground best,

 

[jennifersmith326]

Sorry the pictures was so crappy.

I have 6 EE hens and the 1 EE roo in that pen and I have a few Barred Rocks in there too.

I have some interesting colors of EEs.

 

[Moxiechick]

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I've always felt that the terminology on this is a bit confusing as well, and agree with you on the "pet quality" vs. breed thing.

For example, if someone were to cross a black Ameraucana with say, a wheaten Ameraucana, a lot of people would call the offspring Easter Eggers, even though both parents were Ameraucanas, simply because of the color genetics not being pure, even though the birds would adhere to every other conformation of the breed, ie. muffs, leg color, size, egg color, etc.

Now if someone were to breed an Ameraucana with a different breed altogether, say a RIR, then the offspring are also referred to as Easter Eggers. Then that Easter Egger could be bred to another RIR, and the result would still be called an Easter Egger even though it is 3/4 RIR and only 1/4 Ameraucana. This could go on and on until you have birds that are only 1/8 or 1/16 Ameraucana.

A bird that is 1/16 Ameraucana is going to be a vastly different bird than one that had two purebred Ameraucana parents that were each different colors. I think it would be much, much simpler just to refer to mixed color Ameraucanas as non-show quality, pet quality or mixed color Ameraucanas. Reserve the Easter Egger designation for birds of mixed breed parentage.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate all the hard work that goes into breeding a line that breeds true. I also appreciate the birds of mixed color. But if we use the term Eater Egger to apply to both birds of mixed breeds and to birds with all Ameraucana lineage, but with mixed colors, then things get confusing when birds are marketed.

 

[flower]

When evaluating a statement I usually take into consideration the source of the information to decide the value of that information. Most discussion and arguments are a waste of time.

 

[Medicine Man]

So who's got some sweet EE photos?

 

[jennifersmith326]

I posted my white EE pictures earlier.

I got 30 EE eggs in the incubator right now. So excited to see the cute little things.