The EE braggers thread!!!

[ChickNmamma]

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Thank you, I will be watching for your progress - please share. I find all your pictorial instructions of what crossed to what makes what has given me a much better understanding of color genetics than just playing with the genetics calculator (although that is fun too). Your posting of the Dominant White crosses on the Am thread was really interesting!

 

[Victoria-nola]

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I'd like to suggest that you give the eggs to a neighbor or to a food bank-- it's very sad and a real waste that they go into the trash. You'd be viewed as royalty if you gave eggs away to folks.

 

[rubycal]

I'm looking for some advice on my EEs and it was suggested I come here. I was given 3 fertile green eggs (and one silver sebright who will also show up in the pics) and told they were from an EE pair. When asking about the colouring that they would be, no one seemed to recognize the colouring as being EE. Perhaps a mix? The only other things I have noticed that the pics may not show is they have yellow legs with brown spots. Two have a reddish colour to the ends of their feathers. Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.
Two weeks:

Four weeks:


One day: (Silver sebright is in fromt right)


And I'll show the combs at 4 weeks to see if that tells anything.

 

[CGinJCMO]

Guess I can do a little bragging...


got 3 of these so far and one yellowish chick out under a broody (I know I have this one in an incubator - long story that if you want to hear I can tell it). Anyway, genetic mama is solid white,


daddy is black-ish


Both these parent photos were taken last summer so he looks a bit better and she looks a bit battered (she must be his favorite out of 8 other choices, but I have to make a different kind of saddle for her since she slips out of the ones I bought).

CG

 

[flowerchicks]

"EE bragger's thread" Perfect; I love bragging about how pretty my EE x RIR crosses came out!

I got one EE rooster as a free rare chick from McMurray, yet of his five female offspring with a Rhode Island Red, only ONE of them lays green eggs! The other four lay/laid eggs that I couldn't even tell apart from their mother's. I thought they'd all lay green eggs because I heard the gene was dominant. Grr, heterozygous rooster...

This is Malcolm, the one who lays green eggs, when she was four months old and not laying yet:




But then she molted and grew a new set of feathers:
(That happens to be her father next to her.)



Dorothy doesn't lay green eggs but she is the absolute prettiest hen we've ever had and she's half EE, so close enough. She was the most boring-looking chick for the first couple months of her life.

Four months, and this picture doesn't even capture how pretty she was:


After molting:





Okay, enough bragging. I actually found this thread for a reason.

What's the best hatchery to get easter eggers from? (Or best easter egger supplier in a ~25 mile radius of central Massachusetts.) I'd like to get some so we can sell full dozens of colorful eggs for slightly higher prices instead of just one or two in each dozen and I'm wondering if there's any hatchery that's especially good at producing pullets that lay big eggs in nice colors. Egg size being more important than color, actually.

Malcom looks exactly like my cockerel, Turkeybutt (except he doesnt have a tail). I hope I am able to keep him long enough to see what he looks like after a molt, he's 3 months old now.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Guess I can do a little bragging...


got 3 of these so far and one yellowish chick out under a broody (I know I have this one in an incubator - long story that if you want to hear I can tell it). Anyway, genetic mama is solid white,


daddy is black-ish


Both these parent photos were taken last summer so he looks a bit better and she looks a bit battered (she must be his favorite out of 8 other choices, but I have to make a different kind of saddle for her since she slips out of the ones I bought).

CG

I love your pure white hen, she is very pretty. Congrats on the chicks!

 

[ChickNmamma]

I'm looking for some advice on my EEs and it was suggested I come here. I was given 3 fertile green eggs (and one silver sebright who will also show up in the pics) and told they were from an EE pair. When asking about the colouring that they would be, no one seemed to recognize the colouring as being EE. Perhaps a mix? The only other things I have noticed that the pics may not show is they have yellow legs with brown spots. Two have a reddish colour to the ends of their feathers. Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks.
Two weeks:

Four weeks:


One day: (Silver sebright is in fromt right)


And I'll show the combs at 4 weeks to see if that tells anything.

Wow, I have never seen any chick like that. The closest in feather pattern would be my Swedish Flower Hens.. or my Mottled Houdans (except they have crests and 5 toes). They look mottled.. black and white - and just guessing from the combs you may have two girls and a boy (pink comb last one)... Green eggs though.. going to be interesting for sure!

 

[Penny Hen]

I don't have this problem anymore right now, because my flock got almost completley whipped out, but i would just break the eggs in the coop sometimes. I had a golden comet that absolutley loved eggshells.I also had a few that would eat the eggs before i even craked them open, but the ones that did that are now dead. I now collect my eggs everyday. I usually just throw them away or if I am making a trip over to my sisters house I will give them to her. She loves farm fresh eggs and they are free, because she is my sister. But I never take they time to cook the eggs.

Contact you local Food Bank or Help Center or church that gives out food. I lost 20lbs last year not because I was good at dieting but because we had to ration food in order to pay the bills and keep the land. There is real hunger out there and not everyone who needs the food is begging on the street corner. I needed to loose the 20 pounds but it is why I got my chickens. I don't want to have to depend on the grocery stores completely for my food source. What if I hadn't needed to loose 20 pounds? How many years can I keep going loosing 20 pounds/year? I calculate that I can squeak out 3 more years and I will be at 120. I haven't weighed 120 since 8th grade. When I joined the Army I lost 3 clothing sizes and only 3 pounds. I shifted the fat to muscle. I weighed 150. By September of this year I should weigh 150 again. So the eggs from my chickens will be very important to me. And the cockerels that I don't keep are going in the freezer. I have had cancer and chemotherapy and a broken down van and my drivers license pulled (because I couldn't afford to pay a ticket for being 4 miles over the speed limit), my husband is riding a bike 5 miles to work everyday ever since the transmission in our second vehicle gave out. And I hear of people THROWING AWAY THEIR EGGS!!!!!!!!

 

[cmitchell]

This little blue olive egger has learned how to jump up on the feeder. Time to put the screen cover over the brooder or I'll have chickies running all over the house!
06-11-13

 

[shanadienne]

Oh, I am sorry, that is the gene that makes eggs blue. "o" is for white base (that is under brown too), "O" is for blue. When a chicken is O/O it carries two copies of the blue egg gene so all its children will lay blue (or green if brown egg layers are mixed in) eggs, even if the other parent does not carry any copies.

Hmm, Rex must be O/o then, and I'll assume if the O gene was about 50-50 like every other feature, it went mostly to the males, since their mother wasn't kind enough to give them to all the female eggs... (That's what she did to balance out her feat of hatching seventeen chicks with one egg left over when we counted fifteen every single time we looked!)

And does that mean my unrelated white EE who lays bright-ish green eggs is probably O/o?

Malcom looks exactly like my cockerel, Turkeybutt (except he doesnt have a tail). I hope I am able to keep him long enough to see what he looks like after a molt, he's 3 months old now.

Heh, he does, although he does have a beard which is more than you can say for Malcolm. She just has... stubble.

He actually looks a lot like Malcolm's brother did at that age.

Now, that brother looks like this: