The EE braggers thread!!!

[jennifersmith326]

Here are some of my EEs

Excuse the barred Rocks, they are camera hogs.

 

[farmerChef]

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as long as she has a pea comb, you have a good chase at getting a green or blue egg.

 

[GotChicken?]

Very unfortunate news. The little white EE in my first pic had to be put down. Apparently, something went horribly wrong while I was at work, and I came home to a poor thing with her top beak torn off.

I was just heartbroken; s/he was such a sweetie. Two of the other EE's had marks on their combs where someone pecked them, but I cleaned them up and put Blu-Kote on the wounds.

Can't be sure what went wrong- brooder is more than big enough, and they have plenty of food. Maybe the little one got hurt somehow, the others saw the blood, and a very terrible chain of events happened. I've had chicks die before, but it was due to some internal weakness, not the workings of mini dinosaur brains.

 

[SteveH]

Just an FYI for those EE lovers looking for heavier bodied or blue colored chicks; I have two egg auctions of Ameraucana crosses, at low starts, no reserve, going now:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=465592
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=465603

Cockerals used for crosses:

Splash Ameraucana with red bleed on shoulders

Dark Cornish, with comb damaged through the fence by that above roo

Younger brother to the other Dark Cornish

 

[SteveH]

GotChicken? :

Very unfortunate news. The little white EE in my first pic had to be put down. Apparently, something went horribly wrong while I was at work, and I came home to a poor thing with her top beak torn off.

I was just heartbroken; s/he was such a sweetie. Two of the other EE's had marks on their combs where someone pecked them, but I cleaned them up and put Blu-Kote on the wounds.

Can't be sure what went wrong- brooder is more than big enough, and they have plenty of food. Maybe the little one got hurt somehow, the others saw the blood, and a very terrible chain of events happened. I've had chicks die before, but it was due to some internal weakness, not the workings of mini dinosaur brains.

 

[jennifersmith326]

GotChicken? :

Very unfortunate news. The little white EE in my first pic had to be put down. Apparently, something went horribly wrong while I was at work, and I came home to a poor thing with her top beak torn off.

I was just heartbroken; s/he was such a sweetie. Two of the other EE's had marks on their combs where someone pecked them, but I cleaned them up and put Blu-Kote on the wounds.

Can't be sure what went wrong- brooder is more than big enough, and they have plenty of food. Maybe the little one got hurt somehow, the others saw the blood, and a very terrible chain of events happened. I've had chicks die before, but it was due to some internal weakness, not the workings of mini dinosaur brains.

I'm so sorry. I feel so bad when the little ones get hurt.​

 

[SunnyDawn]

GotChicken? :

Very unfortunate news. The little white EE in my first pic had to be put down. Apparently, something went horribly wrong while I was at work, and I came home to a poor thing with her top beak torn off.

I was just heartbroken; s/he was such a sweetie. Two of the other EE's had marks on their combs where someone pecked them, but I cleaned them up and put Blu-Kote on the wounds.

Can't be sure what went wrong- brooder is more than big enough, and they have plenty of food. Maybe the little one got hurt somehow, the others saw the blood, and a very terrible chain of events happened. I've had chicks die before, but it was due to some internal weakness, not the workings of mini dinosaur brains.

So sorry about your little chickie! We just had to put one down a couple of weeks ago.

 

[sawmane1]

heres owl


and henny penny


I named here wezer because shen was crop bound and would always weeze

And theres one we call anti social chicken because one day i went out there and she was... well... special.

 

[jeremy]

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Steve, I placed a bid on the auction with the Splash Ameraucana roo!

 

[Celtic Hill]

So i know this has to have been done before. EE Hens (from mcmurray) crossed with a Barred rock roo, will the offspring have colored eggs? or will the be like olive?