The EE braggers thread!!!

[Bleenie]

Just wanted to share some pics of a couple more of my girls. =)




This girl is really pretty but she's got the weirdest coloring....

 

[canesisters]

my Candy Cane:


Ha, ha, it sounded like you said that you were OUT of sunflower seeds!

 

[littlechicklet]

I love following all the beautiful pics of EEs. I have some pics to share but I am not a good photographer. I will try to update soon as they are older chicks now.




One of my favorites but I think Willow is a Wilbur



From this

to this:





As you can see there was 2 hatches both under broody BCM mixes. Please overlook the dog house its a temporary feeding station. Will be finding homes the cockerels soon. I hope.

 

[canesisters]

Littlechicklet, those are lovely chickes.

Bleenie, that pale gold lacing has been showing up a lot lately. I wonder if it's something new???

 

[galanie]

I can't claim this to be anything but a run of the mill EE. But it's the first I've ever raised with free access to the house.

By the way, the other stains are from my cockatiels.

Edit: This was one of four I got to slip under a broody because I wanted to see how good a mom she was. For some unknown reason, she would not accept this one. Kept driving it away. So I'd no other choice but to bring it in and see if anything was wrong with it. Doesn't appear to be and now here she is.

 

[littlechicklet]

Littlechicklet, those are lovely chickes.

Bleenie, that pale gold lacing has been showing up a lot lately. I wonder if it's something new???

Thank you. It is going to be hard to decide who stays & who goes but lucky for me my mother-in-law wants to start keeping a few chickens.

 

[Shell1981]

Nugget looks like Ethel! It's nice to see another light chipmunk colored birdie turn into a female. I've been reading a lot about how these chicks end up roosters. Mine doesn't have any "eyeliner" and has barely a mark trailing out the end of the eye. We shall see!

 

[Shell1981]

And the puffy cheeks

(Thanks for the pink egg link, Ron!

)

 

[Shell1981]

so cute! I have one, like the one in the back. turned out to be a roo, but he's awesome, here he is



here he is only 2 days old, I have to find my other memory card, it has all the baby pics...

this is him now



he's very interesting personality wise, he's 13 weeks tomorrow, so far so good, he likes me,
I'm the treat dispenser

Your roo is beautiful! Does look a lot like my Ethel as a baby. It's so amazing how similar these chicks can look and how DIFFERENT they can be as adults. So cool!

 

[Shell1981]

OMG, Shell1981. You are going to have so much fun raising chickens! The funnest part of raising chicks is to see what they turn out looking like! (And of course, getting those eggs! You know that EE have blue/green or pinkish eggs!) I do notice your chicks have yellow legs....or are they turning blue/slate colored? All my EE have slate colored legs. You can never tell what color they will be! You can get two chicks that look identical, and they will grown up really different! Have fun with them. Before you know it, you will have more, I bet! Nobody can have just 2!

I'm having so much fun so far. We're getting started on the "hen house" within the next couple of days. My husband and I are going to build a small one. I'll take weekly pics of the chicks to post their progress. So far, their legs have stayed yellow. Maybe they'll change colors. It's so neat to watch them grow and absolutely amazing to see how similar some chicks look and how totally different they appear when grown up. Different colors, feather patterns, sizes. The kids are enjoying playing with them, but I think I enjoy them more. I can't wait to get home from work and take them out to play in the front yard. Guarding them from the cats is quite a task, but they treat me like mama hen, which is really neat. Oh, and the best part about watching them, is seeing their tiny little legs do that cover/kick thing in the dirt. Looks like the little cuties are dancin'! I'm hoping for some nice green eggs in the future.