The EE braggers thread!!!

[redfeather]

I did try and catch her the other day and she squatted! Yay, I hope so. At least I'll have 1 laying hen while waiting for me EEs and RIRs to grow up!

 

[Whimsy]

Oh I call that a chicken carpet

sometimes it is hard to get across the run with all the hens squatting for me.

 

[redfeather]

LOL! I know... With my first batch of BOs, when I didn't really know much about chickens, I would try and enter the hen house, and they would start to run, and then just squat, and I'd be like "WHAT IS WRONG WITH U STUPID BIRD, GET OUTTA DA WAY", so I'd be shoving them to the side with my boots just to fill their feeder, LOL

 

[babyrnlc]

My new EE! She is a cross between an Ameraucana and a Buff Orpington. Her name is Buffy (aren't we original). She had a bigger beard and muffs, but our EE Pamela, the head chicken, decided she was too pretty and needed to fix that and took a couple of feathers. Things have settled now and she is getting along well with the new one:

Here is our EE chick, Cindy AKA Eagle chick lol. I love her eyes.:

 

[SunnyDawn]

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Beautiful!!!

 

[Rusty's Ranch]

How funny you call Cindy "Eagle chick". Our little Zoey could almost be her twin and we call her "Hawk face"

 

[Kassaundra]

We have an eagle and falcon also.

Here's the eagle

And here is the falcon

 

[cackleberrycoop]

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Stunning.

 

[Sueg4332]

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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.

I have a example !!! (AQHA quarter horse bred to AQHA horse = AQHA quarter horse NOW) 2011. When the for fathers of the club started the assocaition it was for solid colored horses with select white marking, no belly spots over just a couple inches, Blaze faces, socks or stockings below the knee. As time went by color restriction got changed a little at a time. NOW AQHA horse can have all the white it wants. And a loud painted pattern known as overo. I've heard there is a few loud appaloosa patterns also.As long as both sire and dam are registered.
I personally don't agree with the change. I am old school. I have both breeds. I think they will live to regret the change!!!!
There was two registys that would handle the 2 different colored animals.
the Ameraucana people want the reconized colors to breed true, ( a gene pool that will breed true ) The ones that don't are culls.
In the horses AQHA It is noted on papers (undesirable color )
Now APHA will not register the spotted horses from 2 AQHA horse unless the AQHA is double registered. Many cropout quarter horse APHA Paints (spotted AQHA horses) are now double registered because their parents were AQHA horses
So I welcome the Ameraucanas into my flock as EEs . Most EE people dont care about a pedigree and love the color eggs and varied.
It is people establising standards In the AQHA after 50 years the changed the standards of the breed
Hope that make sence.

 

[SteveH]

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