The EE braggers thread!!!

[verlaj]

Also, does the leg color have any significance with respect to egg color? kinsey288 - does your yellow-legged EE lay blue/green eggs?

 

[flower]

First of all leg color has nothing to do with eggs color, the only physical feature that is associated with eggs color are the pea comb and earlobe color and they are not 100% full proof, just associated. Frequently pea comb birds lay blue/green. For the ear lobe if it is white the birds usually lays white and so on. The one exception to this is the Brown Leghorn. Leg color is associated with skin color. If the bird either male of female has yellow skin it will effect the color of the legs. If a bird which has blue slate legs is mated with a bird who has yellow legs or has the gene from somewhere down the road, the chicks would have greenish legs as the blue and yellow genes will mix and make green.

All this is rather complicated and this just touches the surface. I usually just wonder if the legs are true to the Standards for that breed. And since there are no standards for EEs, I usually do not think about the leg color. I do prefer slate, black and green. I like dark colored birds also. Eggs are fun when they are all colors.

 

[kinsey228]

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She hasn't started laying yet, but maybe in the next month or so. I have heard that the blue egg trait is dominant. I don't know if it is true or not, but it would be nice

She also looks like she may be mixed with maybe a Wyandotte, and since they lay brown eggs, she might even be an olive egger.
She is the white and black one behind the rooster in the pic.

 

[dfdesigns]

This is a timely post... I have a young pullet who is out of my clean-faced EE hen and by either a Colombian Wyandotte or a Speckled Sussex. The pullet does have a pea comb and shares her mother's partridge-y coloring, but she does not have green legs. (They are light.) I will be very interested to see if she'll lay green eggs!

 

[marilyn15]

What a beautiful Roo

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[flower]

Looks like a nice healthy flock. Pretty rooster who should look even better as he fills out. And I bet that the Colombian pullet will be an OE since you described the parents as a blue egg/brown eggs genes. She is very good looking also.

verlaj very pretty chicks. I needed to see them as I have just had a total demise of a hatch.

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She hasn't started laying yet, but maybe in the next month or so. I have heard that the blue egg trait is dominant. I don't know if it is true or not, but it would be nice

She also looks like she may be mixed with maybe a Wyandotte, and since they lay brown eggs, she might even be an olive egger.
She is the white and black one behind the rooster in the pic.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/98032_0619111705a.jpg

 

[Chickenrandomness]

i got 2 1week old EEs yesterday and one of them's beard is huge!

i'm not sure if you can see it in this pic, but this is Molly; the one with the big beard:

heres the other one, Olive. shes behind the legorn in the box:

 

[verlaj]

flower - So sorry about your hatch.

 

[Kassaundra]

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[flower]

Thanks to both of you for the consolation. I think I need to buy chicks instead.