The EE braggers thread!!!

I have some questions one of which I posted under it as the topic but got no responses, just a lot of readers so there must be other curious chicken owners out there with the same question...
That one is do bantam chicks vs regular sized chicks feather out at different rates?

The other question has more to do with EE particularly...
do EEs always have green legs? Does anyone know what causes this coloration? Or do EEs just have anything other than the slate colored legs.

Also, one more....the comb...
Do EEs have a variety of comb types or do they have the pea comb like Ameraucanas?



EE's do not always have green legs. Most hatchery stock indeed do, but not always, and homemade ones certainly won't if bred for other colors. For example, most of mine are slate legged. Green legs come from a combination of slate and yellow. Slate is a dominant gene, yellow is recessive. So green legs are always a good indicator of EE vs Ameraucana, as it takes more than just one oops generation to mess up a pure Ameraucana and get those green legs.

EE's often will have single combs due to the whole brown x blue = green thing, however, most of them should ideally have a pea comb like Ameraucanas, since it is linked to the blue egg gene. But, all that said, to the untrained eye it will appear like they have different comb types, since single combs can modify pea combs to be floppy, tall, spiky, lumpy, folded, etc.
 
So I have a pullet that has a mix of very dark slate legs but is developing a straight comb. She also has a clean face. Would you expect green genes (
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Oh sure..........she is an EE ! Trouble is not 100 % of EEs have the blue egg gene and therefor do not make green or blue eggs.

She is very pretty though !
 
Wow! Thanks for all the input on my questions. This is wonderful to have so many with expertise...the perfect forum for my EE questions. I need to find a bantam VS LF forum for my feathering question I guess. I open to all comments even just based on personal observation on this feathering question. Not looking for a "right" answer.
 
Wow! Thanks for all the input on my questions. This is wonderful to have so many with expertise...the perfect forum for my EE questions. I need to find a bantam VS LF forum for my feathering question I guess. I open to all comments even just based on personal observation on this feathering question. Not looking for a "right" answer.
My d'Uccles feathered the same.
 
Oh yeah....Im going looking more closely for those pea combs. With that as a definite link to the blue-green eggs layers Im bound to be able to determine the hen(s) who laid my recently hatched blue and blue-green eggs.
By the way, will pullet who hatch from blue eggs produce blue eggs even if they dont look much like the average EE?

Sorry, I have lots of EE questions because I rescued an Ameraucana (slate legs) roo a while back and he has started mating with my anything other than Ameraucana hens. Im getting some EE looking chicks and Ive had some blue-green eggs for a while now. Those came from offspring from a few EE eggs I got from a friend. Like I said though, my hen really dont look like a typical EE. For sure there is not a green-legged gal in the flock.
 
I am not an expert on anything but guessing. But it seems to me that there is no difference between bantam and LF getting their feathers to grow in as a chick and after a molt. But there is such a thing as slow feathering gene vs standard feathering gene.
 
So I have a pullet that has a mix of very dark slate legs but is developing a straight comb. She also has a clean face. Would you expect green genes (
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) from her?



As in leg color? Sure. Like said, yellow is recessive, so she probably as many EE would, carry only one copy of it, thus not showing it, so if you bred her to a green legged or even a yellow legged, she'll probably produce more green legged offspring. If not then no, she's pure on slate legged.
 
Hey all Love the new pictures I so love the EE's, I hatched out 5 of my own that are 7 weeks I have pictures ready to ;load to the pc, but I'm waiting for my new day olds from PP, should have been here today.....gggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrr they better be here tomorrow or someone is getting chewed and chewed...... I hate waiting for mail thinking of those poor scared little babies .......makes me crazy will post pictures as soon as they get here, and maybe Illia, will post on what my 7 week olds are, I still think 3 are hens, and 2 roo's but I ain't no expert....b y any means......... tonight they are in the little big coop the 10 x 10 for the first time with no light, but my dusk to dawn, they will not stay in the house they keep going out in the corner that is lit, and I'm worried about them, no heat no light, and outside and it cooled off pretty good tonight....they are completely feathered but arggggg it's chilly out there, crazy WI. weather one nite roasting with the fan on the next night cold and cover with a throw just sitting here. ...poor little buggers.......... I feel so bad and wish they would go in the darn house and stay there, I put them in it at least 5 times so far tonight............ Kim
 
Does anyone have an upclose pic of (or a link to) a pea comb? I'm not quite sure I understand what it should look like. I have seen some drawings, but would really like to see an actual pic. Thanks
 

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