The EE braggers thread!!!

[Flowerbh]

My Wheatens are the WORST! Lay for 4-6 weeks and then take off for 3 months

I can always make Olive Eggers (I have Marans and Ams all the time)... I really wanted to work on my own "line" of what I wanted in an Olive Egger... down the road maybe. The CL have not hatched so they are just a plan not a sure thing. Kinda the same way with the Choc Orps, got to grow them up.

My EE lay better than my NH.... not the Leghorns... nothing lays better than WL. My EE are EE.... I bought them as EE and breed them as EE. I have used my Lav Ams when I didn't have a pen for them. I have never really crossed anything in them but WL. In a few months I have a BLRW with a straight comb and I am going to put her in with my Black Am and see what I can get lacing wise, but they will really just be EE.

My leghorn isn't laying much. First of all, she was 23 1/2 weeks before she had her first egg. Then she had one every other day (very small pullet size) and then took a week off and now only lays one every couple of days. My RIR laid 29 eggs in 30 days! My EE had 26 out 0f 30 days and my BR had 27/30! What's with this leghorn????

 

[Flowerbh]

Leg color has nothing to do with the color of the eggs that are laid.

Yeah, I know that....guess I didn't quite make myself clear..... There was a comment made a while back on one of the threads that talked about the color of the legs being related to how far away from the Ameraucana breed an EE may be. As in each generation away from pure AM, the legs get greener and greener. (Blue/slate + yellow legs = greenish legs) or something like that. I just wanted to reread that comment to see if I remembered it correctly....just curious about the leg thing.

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: Yellow legs are recessive... so two copies are needed. The yellow is the color of the skin the slate is in the outer skin as a top color to the skin color. So yes sort of... 2 gens away from Ams could give you yellow legs, or three. If you use green/yellow legs they will all have green/yellow legs.

Yellow legs x white legs = white legs
Green legs x white legs = white legs
Green legs x green legs = green legs
Yellow legs x yellow legs = yellow legs.

I don't breed yellow/green legs... I don't like them

 

[chickybums]

Can I ask a few questions as I have no idea being a first timer.

I have 6 chickens 2 which are silkies and turned out to be boys

and 4 EE which 2 came from 1 place 2 from another though I think 2 may be closer to Ameracauna's.

They were born May 9 2 the other 2 were around there as well and I still have no eggs but have golf balls in the coop and nothing the 1 silkie born the same day as the EE has been crowing for a week now, though he is funny as the 1 is older (feb hatch) and his crow is good and well white the other male is backwards from the other.

Anyways here are a few pics and are they close because we are now in October.


these 2 same hatchery May 9th hatch





camera shy lol



These 2 a different place a lady who had 2 extra rather nice women, these 2 we LOVE way better personality's









so when will they lay?

soon I hope

 

[DMRippy]

All are EE, not Ameraucanas. 6-8 months is the norm ... maybe longer since the days are getting shorter. The red comb will be your clue. When the combs get red, the eggs are soon to follow.

 

[aoxa]

In my siggy is a link to my breeding pens we built.  There are ten in a row and all made out of Pallets that were free.   There is also a link to my little grow out pens.  I use these for young birds and sometime big birds when I want to single mate them.  I usually only grow out pullets.  I have a few people that want my roos for meat so I give them away at a young age.  That cuts my expenses.  My MEGA bator that holds 540 eggs is in my siggy too.

Here is my brooder we made from scrap we got for free (shipping crate)



I only keep the little bitty ones in these.  At about 3 weeks they go to some riding mower shipping boxes to grow out. ($3 each for ready made brooders with a top no less ) I don't have pics of those sorry.

We bought a farm with a house 68 acres and 3 barns.  1 is a 3800 sq ft metal barn, 2 stories in some places.  I grow out the pullets and chicks in that barn.  Out side this big barn is a building like a 3 car garage.  Someone had already used part of it for a chicken coop so we just made it bigger and better.


This is our central waterer.  We have pipes running in all 4 coops and have to fill it about once a month or so.  More in the summer.


Each pen has a coop and nest box.  A large feeder that holds 50lbs of feed.  I am a lazy chicken farmer.



This is a view of the front of this three car garage thing.  The sides are the runs and are divided in half on each side so I have 4 pens.



Just a view of one side, the other is just like it really.  We made the doors out of pallet tops they called them.



This is the back.  I have one small pen we build for d'Uccles but I sold all them and I have my WL on them now for a short time.  My Silver Penciled Wyandotte bantams will live there in the future.



Closer look at the little pen.  It has a metal roof now




My breeding pens are way in the back and no one can see them.... not even the neighbors.   There are so many trees I don't even think a plane could see them

Most of the 300 are chicks and pullets growing out.  I will cull some of the pullets as they start to lay.  The chicks will get thinned out as I find roos.  I am really cutting back on hatching.  I have been putting 90 eggs at a time in, now just 30 and not as often.  Next spring I don't want to have to hatch for me, I just want to hatch to sell chicks.  I missed that season this year, because I needed more birds.

I want to have about 5 pullets/hens in each breeding pen and 2 pens per breed so I can cross breed without inbreeding.  Some breeds I have more like my Lavender Ams.... I have a Black Ams pen, 1 for making splits and 1 with splits and Lavs only.

If you want more info or pics just let me know.  I may have them or I can get them.

I'd like to see your actual breeding pens. I have TONS of pallets, but the fencing is so expensive to make runs. :/

Nevermind. I've seen your pens before. A little clicking and I found it I love them by the way! Very nice job!

 

[DMRippy]

Thanks.

 

[Kassaundra]

A few pics of the EE today they are mostly molting so not as pretty


Leppy Q she is our biggest EE


Farrah's beautiful neck wings are all molting.

 

[CGinJCMO]

Got this link the other day from someone else and thought I'd pass it along to the rest of the EE gang - haven't had time to look at it completely but figured why should I make you all wait on me?

The Easter Egger Club of America

 

[Kassaundra]

Got this link the other day from someone else and thought I'd pass it along to the rest of the EE gang - haven't had time to look at it completely but figured why should I make you all wait on me?

The Easter Egger Club of America

Love the first page, that is as far as I've got, and it made me LOL