The EE braggers thread!!!

[Basel]

First generation EEs?

I have three pure Ameraucanas from a wonderful breeder. Two blue and one splash. They were all sexed as day olds as girls. Well, my favorite blue turned out to be a boy. And I can't keep roos where I live. The AM girls aren't laying yet, but I have a PBR and a BA who have been laying a few weeks now.

I wish I could have my blue cockerel long enough to get some fertile eggs with the PBR and BA to make my own EE.

The reason being is I'd like a green/blue egg with my blue and pinkish ones. I'd just buy an EE chick but I think hatcheries just cross EE to EE and that's why some lay pink or cream eggs. ??

SO, I'm wondering if any of you out there with both light brown egg-layers and also true Ameraucanas ever breed such a cross and make your own green/blue-laying EEs?? As a known cross with the Ameraucana blue egg gene. Or sell hatching eggs?

I'd love to know for the future!

 

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It seems that folks with EE like to mix and match and some just buy new EEs from hatcheries. There are many on here that have beautiful eggs from hatchery EEs. I mated my Ameraucana rooster with a Marans hen to make olive eggs but so far I have not seen any from her. Any blue or green eggs that I get are from EEs and Ams. But I really do not like my Ams because their feathers have been too brittle. Since i no longer have a rooster with the blue egg gene I will breed my hens with the roosters that I do have in order to get more blue eggs and I am considering just ordering some EEs from Ideal.

 

[Basel]

Oh yes, I did not mean to say that hatchery EEs aren't lovely, I just really would like a cross to ensure a blue/green light green egg versus the other possible colors.
I have a pink layer, a light brown, two AM's, two salmon faverolles, and some silkies. I'm near my limit of hens I can have!

 

[DMRippy]

Well, she's very pretty. The fact that she doesn't have the blue egg gene doesn't disqualify her from EEdom, but means she is lacking the most important trait (IMO) for EEs. Aren't we all hopeful that our EEs will give us blue and green eggs? Still, I'd trade her in a heartbeat for my splotchy hatchery silver laced Wyandotte who is grumpy and lays, at most, 2 eggs per week!

My Foley SLW lay better than that..... usually 5-6 a week.

 

[DMRippy]

Last time I did this I got into a HUGE FUSS on this thread and the AMs thread, but here I go

Easter Eggers can be Solid color, any color. I have white, blue, black EE. They came from my EE pen and will stay in my EE pen. I don't like to have solid color EE since I have Solid color AMs... just TOO confusing. I think people prefer the patterns anyway.

The Barring in EE crosses. The sexing of Barred chicks only works if BOTH parents are BARRED. The key to sexing is the little roos have 2 copies of the barring genes. Cross DON'T get 2 copies so you have to wait and see. UNLESS the barring comes from the mother ONLY then you have sex linked roos

BTW I just hatched my first batch of Barred EE this year. They are from my SBEL pullet and my Good Shepard Barred Roo. I want the to make Sexlinked EE in the spring. It is just going to be better to KNOW at hatch what is a pullet. 2 Whites (barred under there) and 3 Blacks.... now to keep the pullets with pea combs.... I will keep hatching. I need 4 or 5 pullets.

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: The white ones are Barred too

you will not be able to see it right off but they are barred.

 

[Kassaundra]

Last time I did this I got into a HUGE FUSS on this thread and the AMs thread, but here I go

Easter Eggers can be Solid color, any color. I have white, blue, black EE. They came from my EE pen and will stay in my EE pen. I don't like to have solid color EE since I have Solid color AMs... just TOO confusing. I think people prefer the patterns anyway.

The Barring in EE crosses. The sexing of Barred chicks only works if BOTH parents are BARRED. The key to sexing is the little roos have 2 copies of the barring genes. Cross DON'T get 2 copies so you have to wait and see. UNLESS the barring comes from the mother ONLY then you have sex linked roos

BTW I just hatched my first batch of Barred EE this year. They are from my SBEL pullet and my Good Shepard Barred Roo. I want the to make Sexlinked EE in the spring. It is just going to be better to KNOW at hatch what is a pullet. 2 Whites (barred under there) and 3 Blacks.... now to keep the pullets with pea combs.... I will keep hatching. I need 4 or 5 pullets.

That isn't hard to do!

 

[DMRippy]

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ESPECIALLY on the Ameraucana thread when EE are mentioned

 

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That isn't hard to do!

now now be nice, ya know how serious some people are !!!!! tut tut

But I wanted to tell Basel That since the pullet that was bred with the White Am over the Blue Marans has a pea comb, I am hoping that her eggs will be Olive because she has the dark brown egg gene and mostly likely the blue egg gene because the blue egg gene is very close in structure to the pea comb and they are very frequently passed on together.

 

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DMrippy I appreciate that your reposted the sexlinked barring post because the information that both parents need to be barred frequently get buried or forgotten.