The EE braggers thread!!!

[Kassaundra]

Okay this is what Illia says about the color:

Nope, he's a melanized Gold Duckwing carrying the Columbian gene, which reverses his colors, thus, he only appears to be carrying dominant white. He'll make some fine Sex-Links for ya.

Illia you sound like a politician!

Sorry couldn't help myself, actually Illia is awesome about anything genetics and color, she is a wealth of info.

 

[DMRippy]

dmrippy, do you have pics of his babies? The link was to a pic of him.

It was actually a link for what color they are. Most have been white with a black line from head to tail. Some have been typical chipmunk color. One was black. Nothing spectacular. yet...I will see what I can do about pictures tomorrow.

 

[Kassaundra]

It was actually a link for what color they are. Most have been white with a black line from head to tail. Some have been typical chipmunk color. One was black. Nothing spectacular. yet...I will see what I can do about pictures tomorrow.

Yes, I saw that when I went back and actually read the post it lead to instead of looking at the pics!

 

[DMRippy]

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After re reading my post it looked like the link would lead to chick pictures... sorry. I still have some babies. Most are clean faced so I have been trying to sell them. I think I have 6-8 left.

 

[Kassaundra]

I have two flocks of girls Oreo is over one, the other flock doesn't have a roo yet. But I have on order blue and splash NN's, I will chose a favorite roo from that batch to go over my other EE flock and add a few blue and splash NN hens in each flock at the same time, hopefully that will add some cool interest to the color gene pool. And I will still be able to tell the eggs apart as all my EE lay colored eggs.

 

[Grumpypantsmomma]

Wow I have a handsome Roo that looks similar to the boys posted earlier, may I ask how big your boys are? Captain Morgan as My Hubby named him is Huge! it's quite odd that this pic makes him look smaller and the girls look big when it's the opposite. Love my boy very good with his girls. Not a close up but you get the just, yes the brahma is tail less and he is beardless we had a feather plucker the has been removed.

I have hatched 7 chicks from him and my 2 barred Rock girls and all are pure black with no head Spots, all feathering out completely black too.
Very cute looking chicks that i will be keeping to watch them grow up, have more chicks growing in the bator. Here are the last 4 hatched.

 

[flower]

Grummpyantsmom nice pictures ! You have a good variety of colors and patterns. I think that your rooster looks just fine and large also. I had a gorgeous EE rooster from an ad on Criagslist and he was too aggressive. But i miss his wonderful colors. i now have a White Ameraucana rooster that is handsome and not human aggressive but since he is young maybe has too much testosterone. So he now resides in a bachelor pen with my young but beautiful blue laced red NN cockerel. Tough life for those two !

Kassaundra I agree that IIlia is the best when it comes to posting genetic information. How is your garden. I can't stand it. Chicken math is bad, but plant math is much worse. Maybe it is my addictive personality trait.

 

[draye]

Question:



I have 5 babies. They are by a Buff Laced Polish rooster over Blue Easter Egger hens, all the babies turned out white one or two have black spots. I know that a Buff Laced is actually dominant white so I figure that all babies will be white.

Now the question:
When breeding those babies will they continue to carry the dominant white, and only have white babies too?

 

[ChicKat]

DMRippy -- Thank you, I have been wondering about Rox for awhile now. I appreciate you and Kassaundra's information---and the roosters look a LOT alike.

Grumpypants - Adorable chicks. What an interesting set of babies. I have 2 barred Rocks as well. --- You are giving me some ideas here..... Great pictures of the chicks.

 

[Kassaundra]

Grummpyantsmom nice pictures ! You have a good variety of colors and patterns. I think that your rooster looks just fine and large also. I had a gorgeous EE rooster from an ad on Criagslist and he was too aggressive. But i miss his wonderful colors. i now have a White Ameraucana rooster that is handsome and not human aggressive but since he is young maybe has too much testosterone. So he now resides in a bachelor pen with my young but beautiful blue laced red NN cockerel. Tough life for those two !

Kassaundra I agree that IIlia is the best when it comes to posting genetic information. How is your garden. I can't stand it. Chicken math is bad, but plant math is much worse. Maybe it is my addictive personality trait.

I agree grummpyantsmom.

Flower, my garden is going well, been planting up a storm have tons more to plant, got several new plants I'm trying out, and a couple of new methods. A couple of the plants I'm most excited to try are some tomatoes from Iraq, I figure if they can grow in the Iraqee desert surly they can handle Oklahoma, tatume squash, poon kheerna cukes, and rat tail radish. oh and I almost forgot trying sorghum too. For me plant math is soooooo much worse then chicken math!!!!