The EE braggers thread!!!

[GhostRider65]

Pretty rooster,
anyway I got a few pictures of the girls the other day munching on some meat scraps and suet, when the sun was actually out........... so thought
i would share them, the die hard EE fans just ignore my other motley crew...........

 

[buddy phoenix]

cant wait got 32 ee is incubator. 4 out of my new blue wheaten ameracauna roo !! cant wait!

 

[ChickNmamma]

Pretty rooster,
anyway I got a few pictures of the girls the other day munching on some meat scraps and suet, when the sun was actually out........... so thought
i would share them, the die hard EE fans just ignore my other motley crew...........

I love this one.. "What'cha lookin at?"

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Well I just came back from the big show in Stockton CA yesterday - and I saw some pretty EEs there - listed as "Wheaten Ameraucanas" Fortunately the judge recognized that there was something wrong with some of them - the cards only had "Color" marked on them - no placings. One was a beautiful gold colored girl with blue "petals" on each feather - looked almost like one I have here. The other had just the standard EE colors, also similar to one of my girls. However, there were some roosters further down - with the correct Wheaten color (Red/Black) - and GREEN LEGS that did place. Not first.. but they got 3rd. So not all judges know all the points of the AM/EE debate or that yellow skin and green legs is a DQ. To be fair, the judges do have to know points for hundreds of breeds of birds - and that is a big book to read all the way through!

I saw a card with "color" written on it, but I wasn't sure what it meant. Funny, but I thought that the chicken was being acknowledged for having an exceptionally beautiful and unusual color!

Yeah, chicken show newb here.

Missed the green legs on the roosters, but I was distracted by the gianormous examples of rocks and wyandottes that make my LF hatchery girls look like bantams!

And I was excited to see my first Araucana in person. Funny to think that EEs are sometimes sold under this name.

Gotta love the tufts!

 

[aoxa]

Picture from yesterday. I believe this is Fern, but her and Willow look very similar. Hard to say for sure She's keeping warm on the roost.

 

[ChickNmamma]

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The "unusual color" is what made them not placed. If you are going to call a bird "wheaten" - it has to have wheaten color - not EE color...

Yeah, those Auracanas don't look anything like our girls, do they? I think that's why the hatcheries stole the Ameraucana name, more similarities there. The thing is, they may have started with "Auracanas" of the 70s, and bred them to what they sell today. Amazing what generations of un-selective breeding (or breeding for eggs instead of a conformation type) will do. The Auracana, Ameraucana and hatchery birds all started with the same base. They sure don't look the same any more!

 

[Kassaundra]

A couple of pics from the past few days


Oreo the head man of the flock.


Chocolate cheeks and Reba running to me for treats.



A group of the ladies huddling from the wind.


Jaxom and Little man, not EE but since I showed my head man, thought I'd show my "men in waiting"

 

[aoxa]

Kass,

I especially like Chocolate Cheeks! Adorable!

 

[bruceha2000]

She and Cubby (who is the same age) laid an egg about once a week over last summer. Neither has laid an egg since they molted last fall, though.

Our girls will go to their reward naturally, and I keep reading how chickens only lay a few years. I'm glad to hear that yours are still contributing to their keep, if even a little. Gives me some hope mine won't be totally on the dole for years

This is mirror, Isn't she cute? Every time I tried to take a picture of her she would turn around, so i would go around the tree to take her picture and she would turn back around. It was funny.

My daughter is like that (well not sitting on a branch). She doesn't like having her picture taken.

...., the die hard EE fans just ignore my other motley crew...........

Chocolate cheeks and Reba running to me for treats.

Looks like some SERIOUS muff, beard AND neck feather pecking going on in your flock!

Bruce

 

[inthesticks]

Thought I'd show off the baby EEs I will be keeping

ended up w/ 10 single combs & 10pea combs(keeping these)










Here is a group photo of the ones I wont be keeping