The EE braggers thread!!!

[kinsey228]

No eggs yet, but this is my EE roo that came w/ her. I got all 3 of my EE's the same day, when they were a day old.

 

[MobyQuail]

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pretty, pretty boy! he is #1 in the henhouse.

 

[kinsey228]

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pretty, pretty boy! he is #1 in the henhouse.

Thank you, and yes, he is.

I just hope he'll make it easy when I combine my 2 flocks when the other is old enough. I have a beautiful Wyandotte/Marans cockerel that I would like him to share the new coop with, along with the 14 pullets and 3 guineas.

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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I'm positive she's a pullet.

The 2nd one does look very roosterish, but the pictures are small. How do you know it's a pullet?

 

[sharol]

I got a nice selection from Orschlen's too (same hatchery) in Topeka, KS. Good variety. I like picking them out. The odd girl out is the Buff Orp.

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Yes, it could. But, hopefully it's a real EE and not an Ameraucana.

Really! I sure hope so. I want only pure EEs.

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I bought them at Orscheln's. They get their chicks from Estes Hatchery.

 

[the Pollo Loco]

This has been asked before... but can't find it right now... If the roo is EE and the hen is not will the offspring produce green eggs? Or do I need a EE hen for the offspring to produce green eggs?

 

[DMRippy]

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Makes no difference if a roo or hen. I don't know what color the eggs would be because you mention the other part of the equation. If it is a dark egg layer, like a Marans you would get olive color eggs from the offspring.

 

[meepitqueenie]

Hi all!

This is my newest EE. its a EE/Dom cross.

here it was about a month ago

some of my girls

I have a Lavender that I got to breed these to when its old enough.

who knows what color chicks they will produce.

 

[MobyQuail]

this is the way my simple brain understands it. not sure exactly how many genes control the egg color, paired or not, eventually I will get it down to +/-

2 possible colors of chicken eggs- white and blue, eggshell color happens in the eggshell department of the hen. I understand, they got the original blue eggshell color from the Araucanas, they passed it to the mongrel EEs, they standardized the mongrel EEs feather colors/leg colors/combs/muffs by breeding them back to established breeds with established colors to call them Ameraucanas, then bred Ameraucanas to other chickens to call them EEs again...

2 possible tints of chicken eggs- none and brown, eggshell tint happens in the different, paint department of the hen. Quail have wicked cool paint departments, btw...

white egg plus no tint= white egg
white egg plus brown tint= brown egg
blue egg plus no tint = blue egg
blue egg plus brown tint = green egg

if your roo carries the blue eggshell, brown tint gene, he will pass the green egg genes to offspring.
if the hen was white/none in that area, the eggshell may be lighter but still a shade of green, blue eggshell with brown tint over it= green color.
if the hen was blue/none (like a true, true Araucana), you would get a bluer, but still shade of green egg, more blue.

more confused?

I wonder if EE stand for Easter Egger like the Easter Bunny and colored eggs, or Easter Island...?

 

[flower]

If it is a breed that ususally lays white eggs, there is a good chance for blue eggs. But just as you can not determine what color/pattern the offsprings will be you can not determine what color the eggs will be. If it is a male it wount lay eggs

but there it may carry the blue/green egg gene to its offsprings. Just as Pollo Loco stated both sexes can carry the blue/green egg gene.

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Makes no difference if a roo or hen. I don't know what color the eggs would be because you mention the other part of the equation. If it is a dark egg layer, like a Marans you would get olive color eggs from the offspring.