The EE braggers thread!!!

[chirpingcricket]

If you want really wild coloring - try a crested Swedish Flower Hen rooster over some EEs... that has been done and I understand they are really cool.... and SFH roosters are easier to find.

Now there's an idea! Me thinks I'm beginning to understand how this chicky math thing works. haha
The question? How to slide another Rooster/pen/run by my Hubby? It'll take some time I suppose. Thanks for the tip!

 

[RoosterLew]

Now there's an idea! Me thinks I'm beginning to understand how this chicky math thing works. haha
The question? How to slide another Rooster/pen/run by my Hubby? It'll take some time I suppose. Thanks for the tip!

That's easy....Men, we will do anything for good cooking!
I suggest the following:
Steaks and ribs,
Cakes and Pies
And homemade Ice cream will win you LOTS of favors!

 

[OldChurchEggery1]

I know you can't see much of the recent hatch from that picture, but I wanted to show off my little Chicken-mama-in-training. She is almost 2 and when I caught her in the closet, she said "Looking at! Looking at!" to let me know she wasn't touching them. I ended up with 11 hatching out of 16 that made it to the final three days of incubation. I think the humidity got too long because I wound up with 2 that were stuck in their shells. I popped them out because everything else that had pipped had hatched, but only one made it. They both had foot problems from being in the shells so long and were dried to the membrane. I tried fixing the toes on one with a piece of cardboard and bandaids. I was surprised at how well that worked. They aren't perfectly straight but the chick has no trouble scritch-scratching in the feed with everyone else. I was surprised by the down color (go EEs!) of some of them- quite reddish-brown, so I'm interested in seeing what kind of plumage they'll have as adults.

In this one you can see the chicks a bit better (and the two brownish-red ones I mentioned above). This was just their home for the first night and they're enjoying their wooden brooder outside now. I've set more eggs from my second pairing but some of those eggs were close to the upper limit age-wise (10 days). I promised my husband I'd only have 1 incubator going at a time this spring

 

[Manningjw]

I have a quick question for you eggsperts. How early can you determine if a pullet/cockerel has a pea comb vs a single comb? I am planning to do some cross breeding and want to select out the single combs and sell them early on to save on chick feed.

 

[Manningjw]

Now there's an idea! Me thinks I'm beginning to understand how this chicky math thing works. haha
The question? How to slide another Rooster/pen/run by my Hubby? It'll take some time I suppose. Thanks for the tip!

I imagine I will be having the same problem but with the girlfriend - the chicken math is catching up with me as I am trying to plan out my breeding project...

 

[jerryse]

I have a quick question for you eggsperts. How early can you determine if a pullet/cockerel has a pea comb vs a single comb? I am planning to do some cross breeding and want to select out the single combs and sell them early on to save on chick feed.

You can tell at hatch.Some may be hard to tell until later.A magnifing glass can be a help.

 

[rccrosby]

if i cross me EE's that lay blue and green eggs with a RIR roo what color eggs will the offspring lay?

 

[missnu01]

Ha ha ha yay! I thought all my EEs were ok g to just be boring and brown, but one of them is black and white! Yay!

 

[Lilwanis]

Since I am not SURE it is E/E that is totally black.. this would be my guess only based on information from elsewhere. E/e^b is Extended Black/Partridge cross. If the children got E from one parent and E from the other parent then they would be E/E.. and I believe that was what the supposition of a totally black downed chick would be. e+ is wild-type - but it doesn't denote partridge although it will throw chipmunk chicks. Its the base for silver and gold duckwing. E/e^b will usually be totally black, but some may have leakage because of other genes present in partridge coloring (its not just e^b/e^b, there's more stuff in there). This is something I am still figuring out myself.. maybe somebody with good genetics will come in and answer it...

Thank-you again for your response. I will post updated pics of them as they grow

 

[jerryse]

if i cross me EE's that lay blue and green eggs with a RIR roo what color eggs will the offspring lay?

Blue + brown = green Green + brown = green and brown