The EE braggers thread!!!

[BroosterSpringsteen]

If you still have your BBS Ameraucanas, you can always make green laying EE's from them with brown or dark brown layers. Most if not all of your options will give you the same results though - blue or black offspring, beard/muffs, and either blue or white legs. Only a few candidates would give a little more color, such as laced birds.

Well actually, My roo is a beautiful splash Blue Ameraucana, and I was thinking about pairing him with one of my BLRW, probably the hen I kept with a single comb (to prevent a walnut comb). Would the chicks potentially carry the lacing? I also have splash Marans and BCM for creating olive eggers.

 

[Peach2u]

Well actually, My roo is a beautiful splash Blue Ameraucana, and I was thinking about pairing him with one of my BLRW, probably the hen I kept with a single comb (to prevent a walnut comb). Would the chicks potentially carry the lacing? I also have splash Marans and BCM for creating olive eggers.

Nice you have a great choice of roos. Now ask yourself what color of eggs are you looking for? Blue/green or olive, Bearded or not, feathered legs or not and so on. In the end they are all beautiful. Good luck

 

[Illia]

I just have to say, sorry, there's no such thing as Splash Blue. One is either Splash or Blue.

But, using rose combed birds is fine too. You won't get much of a walnut comb, even though some articles say so, mine come out looking like rose combs. Some are a tad bumpier than normal but nothing ugly.

The laced birds will get you blue and splash offspring, they may indeed have some amounts of color but no actual lacing showing up, that isn't until the second gen bred right. The Olive Eggers will just be blue splash or black.

If you want color, best thing to do is use a blue layer who isn't solid blue, black, white, lavender, or splash and a brown or dark brown layer who isn't black copper, blue copper, blue, splash, white, or lavender.

For dark brown I always go with Wheaten Marans. For normal brown there's a huge variety. For blue there's Araucanas (my fav) as well as right behind them, Wheaten/Blue Wheaten Ameraucanas and Buff Ameraucanas. You can use EE's too but I always like using something different. Buff Am's of good blue laying lines especially will thrown neat pumpkin and dun colored birds.

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

Sorry, I know. He's splash. I just mean he hatched from my blue ameraucana eggs. All the hens are blue, and my one roo is splash. I'm not new to chickens, just new to talking about chickens.

I do have one mixed chick that I think is an EE. I picked her from a bin labeled "Araucana" at the feed store, knowing full well she is NOT an Araucana, but she had the most beautiful chick coloring, and I just had to have her. Perhaps she will produce some interesting colors to mix in. I'll just have to wait and see what color eggs she lays. I've also been craving some Blue Wheaten Ameraucanas. You may have just pushed me into buying more hatching eggs.

 

[heatherscooby77]

Whenever you are talking genetics is okay so say blue splash. There is also splash wheatons. Want to make sure your talking about the right splash

 

[DMRippy]

Whenever you are talking genetics is okay so say blue splash. There is also splash wheatons. Want to make sure your talking about the right splash

Not really.... Splash Wheaten is a Color and Pattern. BLUE SPLASH is 2 colors. It is either Splash or Blue there is no BLUE SPLASH you can't be two colors

 

[heatherscooby77]

Not really.... Splash Wheaten is a Color and Pattern. BLUE SPLASH is 2 colors. It is either Splash or Blue there is no BLUE SPLASH you can't be two colors

So if you are posting on a thread how would you say the difference? I assume when am reading something and I see splash, they are talking about b/b/s. I also have seen splash typed out on Wheaton genetic threads. People can type in there posts whether it is a blue derived,or a Wheaton derived splash. How else would you say it, its straight to the point.You can't be two colors but you can say where the splash came from.

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: All I know is Blue is a color Splash is a color and Black is a color. WheatEn is a pattern like Partridge and Red Laced and all three can be SPLASH in color. Illia can fill you in on the rest if I am wrong. She is the genetic guru and can take it from here... cuz I only know enough to have WAY too many project birds.

 

[Illia]

Splash is just the homozygous or pure version of blue, so technically, not the same as Blue, but genetically pretty close if not almost the same. But it really is no different from Splash Wheaten, Splash Copper, Splash Duckwing, or any other Splash color except for the part that isn't Splash. Splash is just defining the fact that whatever the color is, it also has homozygous blue, AKA Splash. So if someone said Splash, they likely mean pure Splash, nothing else interfering. If they said Splash Wheaten, they mean Wheaten with the Splash gene. Same goes for Dun or Blue or Lavender. If it is just Dun, or just Blue, or just Lavender, it's that, nothing else. If it is Dun Wheaten, or Lavender Cuckoo, or Blue Copper, then it's Wheaten or Cuckoo or Copper but also with said other gene. That other gene is what affects the black color. Wheaten, Cuckoo, "Copper" (also known better as Brown-Red) are the actual patterning. Doesn't matter if they're normal or if they also have Blue, White, Lavender, Dun, Splash, etc.


Did that make sense?


So "blue splash" Actually doesn't help define talking about pure solid BBS birds, since Blue and Splash are also found on any other bird carrying Blue or Splash. But just saying Splash or Blue, no other word, helps differ it from say Blue Cuckoo or Splash Cuckoo, because you never used the other word like Cuckoo. But if someone is in say a Wheaten/Blue Wheaten thread and only mentions "blue" they might mean Blue Wheaten.

 

[flower]

NOPE ! It was good until the third sentence.