The EE braggers thread!!!

[Gifa]

Blue feet, yellow feet, green feet too,
sittin' on the branches like chickens do.
Two little Easter Eggers, Wyandotte too,
Looks like one may have stepped in poo.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Well, I have FINALLY finished reading all the way through this thread, and now I can post my EE birdies. Of course, like most people here, when I bought them I thought they were Americaunas (notice the i).. but have since learned the ones from the feed store really don't have a breed name so they are called EEs. I don't name the EEs.. but they do have distinct personalities and they lay nice blue-green eggs.

Enjoying the grass


Digging up the raised beds with some Silver Laced Wyandottes


I love their patterns


My EE Roo - clean faced - drat!


Saying hello to the Blue Laced Red Wyandotte cross beak and retarded rooster - he's in there to prevent him from adding to the gene pool. I will probably have to eat him. He still peeped like a chick when he was 4 months old.. only started crowing last month at almost 8 months old!


This is my darkest girl, she has a lovely green sheen on her neck feathers at the right angle



I have 10 EE hens (4 very old and 6 new). The old ones are about 7 years, the new ones are from last April. I love the eggs I am getting from them.

welcome ChickNmama what part of the gold country you from? I live in Placerville.
You should check out the Norcal Thread as well. Lots of nice locals

 

[SunnysideupstateNY]

Blue feet, yellow feet, green feet too,
sittin' on the branches like chickens do.
Two little Easter Eggers, Wyandotte too,
Looks like one may have stepped in poo.

OMG too cute!

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Well, I have FINALLY finished reading all the way through this thread, and now I can post my EE birdies. Of course, like most people here, when I bought them I thought they were Americaunas (notice the i).. but have since learned the ones from the feed store really don't have a breed name so they are called EEs. I don't name the EEs.. but they do have distinct personalities and they lay nice blue-green eggs.

Welcome to BYC. There are loads of loyal EE fans here and it's nice to meet another. Your rooster is very handsome even without a comb. As Cooper mentioned, your local thread is a great place to meet folks near you. Look for California - Northern

Oh, and by the way, there's absolutely no requirement to read an entire thread before you post! But good for you!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Welcome to BYC. There are loads of loyal EE fans here and it's nice to meet another. Your rooster is very handsome even without a comb. As Cooper mentioned, your local thread is a great place to meet folks near you. Look for California - Northern

Oh, and by the way, there's absolutely no requirement to read an entire thread before you post! But good for you!

yeah that is awsome. I just scanned it. took way to long after the first few pages.

 

[ChickNmamma]

welcome ChickNmama what part of the gold country you from? I live in Placerville.
You should check out the Norcal Thread as well. Lots of nice locals

I live between Jackson and Pine Grove off of Highway 88. I will go over and read that thread now - I sure hope it has fewer pages....

OH MAN - its WORSE!

Well - I have decided this time I am going to start at the end and go backwards - that thread started in 2007!

Welcome to BYC. There are loads of loyal EE fans here and it's nice to meet another. Your rooster is very handsome even without a comb. As Cooper mentioned, your local thread is a great place to meet folks near you. Look for California - Northern

Oh, and by the way, there's absolutely no requirement to read an entire thread before you post! But good for you!

Thanks. It took me three weeks to read it, but I learned a lot.

My birds have always come from feed stores and McMurray. I love the colors of the EEs some people have. That Skyfire is amazing!

The two feed store ones I got this time have clean faces (1 hen, 1 roo from Privet Hatchery). The McMurray EEs have great fuzzy faces but were mostly gold/black with the exception of one with blue feathers in her tail and the black necked one. They all are laying on the blue side of blue green eggs. I would have really liked to have gotten some EEs with the silver wild-type coloring - or those beautiful black and white ones that I have seen some people posting on here.

I really like some of the mixes people have made too...

I will probably have some roosters with a fuzzy faces coming next year - because I ordered some Ameraucanas from John Blehm. All the well behaved extra boys will go in with the EE/Wyandotte pen.... I may need more hens....

 

[Kassaundra]

I live between Jackson and Pine Grove off of Highway 88. I will go over and read that thread now - I sure hope it has fewer pages....

OH MAN - its WORSE!

Well - I have decided this time I am going to start at the end and go backwards - that thread started in 2007!




Thanks. It took me three weeks to read it, but I learned a lot.

My birds have always come from feed stores and McMurray. I love the colors of the EEs some people have. That Skyfire is amazing!

The two feed store ones I got this time have clean faces (1 hen, 1 roo from Privet Hatchery). The McMurray EEs have great fuzzy faces but were mostly gold/black with the exception of one with blue feathers in her tail and the black necked one. They all are laying on the blue side of blue green eggs. I would have really liked to have gotten some EEs with the silver wild-type coloring - or those beautiful black and white ones that I have seen some people posting on here.

I really like some of the mixes people have made too...

I will probably have some roosters with a fuzzy faces coming next year - because I ordered some Ameraucanas from John Blehm. All the well behaved extra boys will go in with the EE/Wyandotte pen.... I may need more hens....

Thank you she is an awesome chicken, and so far my only one to go broody.

 

[jendodd79]

Blue feet, yellow feet, green feet too,
sittin' on the branches like chickens do.
Two little Easter Eggers, Wyandotte too,
Looks like one may have stepped in poo.

What do you have covering your wire?

 

[ChickNmamma]

Thank you she is an awesome chicken, and so far my only one to go broody.

I have never had one of my EEs go broody - its why I bought a whole bunch of different chickens last year. Just so I could get a broody to hatch my EE eggs for me, and my blue Silkie did!

 

[Gifa]

What do you have covering your wire?

Heavy Duty Clear Tarps from Tarpaflex.com

This is the one big tarp that covers the top, the back and most of the end...




This shows the two tarps that wrap the front and remainder of the end.



I actually just finished covering the door tonight, now that we're entering the deepest part of winter weather season.

I like it because it keeps the majority of the wind and moisture out, but it still lets light in. You can see that I keep the bottom foot open for ventilation's sake, and also so they can still look out. But I do have straw bales butted up against the side to baffle the wind some. Even after a snowstorm that left us with 2 inches of snow and 45mph winds out of the east, it was still pretty cozy in there for them... and not that dark considering the layer of snow on the top of the run