The EE braggers thread!!!

[babyrnlc]

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Wow! He is beautiful! love the colors!

 

[Illia]

Buff isn't a sex-linked color or anything - It passes equally like most other colors. There's a lot of genes involved though, so few colors go well with it. Most just make a bird with a lot of black pencilling, smudging, or black in the back, tail, wings, etc. To make what you have there often requires a duckwing with columbian or a true Wheaten.

 

[babyrnlc]

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I will never get the genetics of all this. Especially since we wont be breeding.

I was so good with cockatiels. I knew what sex my babies were by their colors. I knew what I would get and what to breed to what to get what I wanted. This chicken genetics is too much lol.

We have our flock now. Should be pretty colorful and the egg basket too. We are up to 10 now (one possible roo, that will go away if it is a roo) WE are done, so unless I need to replace any, I wont even be looking for more. Which is a good thing, this all gives me a headache.

 

[Inkheart]

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You have the most beautiful EE's - simply stunning

 

[Kassaundra]

Thanks for the compliments on the pics and chicks. Here are a few more I took yesterday. I just got a new lens and had to test it out.

The boy is Oreo of course, the girl has no name, she is one of several w/ very similar markings that are hard to distinguish.

 

[schellie69]

I have a question are all mix chickens EE's or do they have be some cross with an Ameracuana (sp) I get so confused I have 3 bantam EE's they are mostly white and have muffs or beards. they lay blue eggs I want to cross them with my Cochin rooster to get green egg layers will they still be EE's or just mutts so confused.
Here is a picture of my 3 girls a little blurry they don't like to stand still

 

[CoyoteMagic]

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A few updated pictures of my Chicklets. I've got to get them out of the one pen and split them into bigger pens. I definately have 2 roos. Neither which has started to crow. Unlike most of you folks, my chickens are just chickens, not my pets. I free-range a lot and want them to be on their toes ready to take off at any sign of a predator. I've got to take my pictures from a distance because they run if I get any closer.

 

[Qi Chicken]

Thanks for the reply guys. I won't worry about my half bearded chickens (too much!) Poor Marge looks like a turkey neck.

 

[Breshcandra]

Can you tell what kind of comb they are going to have when they are chicks?

 

[Illia]

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Hard to say from that photo, it is blurry. They look like Blue Wheaten Ameraucanas, however if you got them from a hatchery or feedstore, they're EE's. If you cross them to any other breed but Ameraucanas, they're EE's.

So yes, crossing to a Cochin will indeed get green egg layers, which is what Easter Eggers often are.

Breshcandra - Yes. If you look closely, you will see the sawtooth edge of a single comb vs the little bumps of a pea comb, or even a smooth broad rose comb, or a smooth narrow V comb, and so on.

Well, my home-made Easter Eggers are finally laying now, and even though the "Olive Egger" girls are younger, they're laying first - The "Easter Eggers" (normal green layers) followed behind just by 3 days, and are giving me some nice green eggs. It took a while for me to catch who's laying them though, and today I finally snuck in and saw that it was my silver girl. (I only have a golden EE and a silver EE, both the same age - They're actually identical in almost every way but for the gold vs silver genes)

Pics will be up tonight.