The EE braggers thread!!!

[Hangtown Farms]

I have this...My roo was BlueJG and red EE and I got these beautiful birds....BUT the size was no bigger they took their mother's size and sweet personality(dad was hateful)
DAD

MOM


Roo Baby: Promethus great mix of mom and dad in coloring but sweet like mom and nowhere as big as dad.


All three together Promethus the roo, Mrs.Lyles the blk with beige partiridge marking in neck; Ghost the EE hen that's blue and red also. ALL are so sweet. None of the hens are nowhere as big as a JG hen, but are a good size.


It's amazing how these babies came from those parents...Love them ALL...mom died about a three months before this pic(miss her) Got rid of DAD toooo mean and big.

nice

 

[Twizzlebee]

Any ideas on sex of the black one? I'm hoping for a pullet, but the comb is awful red, although the body looks like a pullet. Threw in a pic of the blue andalusian x wheaton AM roo. My EEs are by far my favorite, but I think I have 3 roos :/ I know the two blue ones are roos, both have red leakage.

 

[draye]

Any ideas on sex of the black one? I'm hoping for a pullet, but the comb is awful red, although the body looks like a pullet. Threw in a pic of the blue andalusian x wheaton AM roo. My EEs are by far my favorite, but I think I have 3 roos :/ I know the two blue ones are roos, both have red leakage.

Can't say for sure, but that looks like a pullet.

 

[maryhysong]

Those combs may be odd, but those are girl colors.

oooh Thank You! I've been hoping and it would be wonderful to have four pullets; I've been watching and waiting for any indication of other colored feathers on them, saying they were boys ;-) You just made my day!

 

[qball53]

So a lot of people have been talking about making chickens larger that are EEs, why not just breed with a jersey giant and then go back and forth with an EE?

Thanks for the recommendation but this won't work for my deisres. Jersey Giants lay brown eggs which will depart green to the EE egg. I want to make the birds larger and make the egg more blue. What I think I need is a very large White egg layer.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

What happens if you do a blue egger with a green egger? Wouldn't that intensify the blue into aqua???

 

[DMRippy]

What happens if you do a blue egger with a green egger? Wouldn't that intensify the blue into aqua???

No the blue will not get BLUER, it would dilute the brown, some would inherit the brown egg genes some would not. It would just breed int the blue egg genes more. Some would have 2 copies of the blue egg gene, but not a different color blue.

 

[qball53]

What happens if you do a blue egger with a green egger? Wouldn't that intensify the blue into aqua???

I would not call any of my EE eggs green, they are blue. They are as blue as the wheaten and blue wheaten ameracuan eggs were. However there is evidence of a brown egg layer in their genetic pool because there is just a hint of green in the blue. Our lavender ameracuan hens lay a more purely blue egg. But the reason we are not keeping that strain is that they are just too small for our liking. It will take many many years to bring their size up to what we want, I think. To answer you question, I believe breeding the "blue" egg layer in will improve color and we will use the lavender to do that. But I think a large "white egg layer will be necessary to increase size and improve color of the eggs. The Appenzeller Barthuhner looks like it might fit the bill. Additionally they have a pea comb and an nice beard which would compliment the EE. The price right now is outrageous and we will wait for that to drop.

 

[Nelson-90]

Any ideas on sex of the black one? I'm hoping for a pullet, but the comb is awful red, although the body looks like a pullet. Threw in a pic of the blue andalusian x wheaton AM roo. My EEs are by far my favorite, but I think I have 3 roos :/ I know the two blue ones are roos, both have red leakage.

looks like a girls she is pretty

 

[PurpleEast]

It's amazing how these babies came from those parents...Love them ALL...mom died about a three months before this pic(miss her) Got rid of DAD toooo mean and big.

Fascinating! I just love seeing the results of breeding. That's a really pretty batch!