The EE braggers thread!!!

[OldChurchEggery1]

Have any of you noticed that the subordinate males don't get as big of combs? I'm noticing this now in my "birthday chicks" as I call them because they hatched on my birthday over the summer. I wound up with three EE males, though I think one may (may, may, may) be a pure Ameraucana that is just recessive white since I did have some allegedly pure blacks that got tossed under the broody. The white cockerel is definitely the lowest on the totem pole and his comb has not bloated up like my other EEs' combs have. Do you think that some of the sexual maturation can be diminished if a male is not the dominant one? In a different pen I have three other EEs and even though I know for a fact that the mother of two of them had at most a single copy of the pea comb gene (she was an RIR x EE mix and had sort of a blobby s-comb), both of those cockerels have much smaller, tighter combs than the alpha male in that pen. That alpha cockerel was out attending to the pullets so maybe they're reaching maturity as well. Oh, come on eggs!

 

[Flavum]

Stanley exploded. He started out with a regular pea comb.




and now..

Very handsome Roo.

My Man Bird has a very similar comb, Are these still considered EE's if they don't have the pea comb? does this mean they are crossed with something else?

 

[KingR0o5t3r]

Very handsome Roo.

My Man Bird has a very similar comb, Are these still considered EE's if they don't have the pea comb? does this mean they are crossed with something else?

I would still consider it an Easter egger, and it HAS been mixed with probably a single comb. All that Easter egger means is that it has some green egg genes somewhere along the line, and there are Brown egg layers that are considered EEs, because they have EE blood, they just happen to lay Brown eggs.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Big combs vs little combs-

My dominant roo had the big comb, i bought 2 others that were brothers and one had a big one and one had a little one. The biggest comb won! I don't think it's small because of the others being dominant, but i read that comb brightness and size was used to determine pecking order!

That being said, i loved my boy dearly but as far as easy to manage and easy on the hens i preferred the smaller combs. The hens of course went for the dominant guys given the chance, so....... there you have it. But i feel that the lesser amounts of testosterone were gentler all in all, but it just goes to show that even in the animal kingdom the "good guy comes last" lol.

 

[JeffOeuf]

It has no points at all- it's an accordion folded sort of thing... like old fashioned ribbon candy.

I believe that is called a "walnut" comb.

 

[KingR0o5t3r]

if you Google walnut combs, I think you'll find that it is different from this

 

[jendodd79]

Stanley exploded. He started out with a regular pea comb.




and now..

Wow!!! That's wild!!

 

[CGinJCMO]

I had 2 EE roos. One has a "shorter" comb, while the other's comb grew taller (similar to the photo above). I kept the roo with the comb that stayed closer to his head to hopefully increase my changes of hatching blue egg layers next spring/summer because I thought the taller comb meant it was possibly crossed with something else.

Right now I can't remember when the last time i got a blue egg (only have one female EE) so hatching is a moot point anyway.

CG

 

[Sunny Dawn]

Has anyone else experienced a late laying hen? I have two EEs that hatched in June and still have not payed a single egg. Wondering if they are just late bloomers or just decided to wait until spring. I don't want to be concerned unnecessarily

 

[Sunny Dawn]

In this episode, Advanced holding techniques. Here, Popcorn demonstrates the proper form of a common chicken holding technique on her EE, Buttons, known as the "dangle grip". It is so named by the obvious way the legs and feet of the chicken dangle freely about beneath the hand of the person holding the chicken. The dangle grip is best used on the more docile breeds as it has proven ineffective on the more flighty breeds such as the Leghorn. Many attempts were made to hold a leghorn using the dangle grip technique, but this merely resulted in a plethora of chicken scratches up one side of the arm and down the other and the mildly perturbed, mocking squawks from said leghorn. Be sure to tune in next thursday when we demonstrate more advanced poultry techniques. /Attenborough voice

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