The EE braggers thread!!!

[flowerchicks]

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? 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:

Wow, it's amazing how much they change colors after a molt. Did he have any brown or red on his wings when he was white? Mine has no color at all, just white and black.

 

[ChickNmamma]

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Chickens are good at chicken math too.. hatching 17 chicks out of 15 eggs and having one left over is pretty good...

And yes, he was probably O/o, but you don't know what the White EE has unless you breed her to an o/o rooster and one of the daughters lay a brown egg. If they all lay green, then she is O/O. If approx half lay green she is O/o. However, if none of Rex's daughters lay green - did they at least come out of a green/blue egg? Because if they did somebody shudda gotten a copy from their mom....

Malcom's brother looks like my EE roo - I gave him away when I sold 4 hens. He had no beard/muffs so he lost that somewhere, he had a clean shave. I wasn't sure he carried O either... He did have green legs and a pea comb though.

 

[Peneliva]

Hey guys. I think these are EE, was told they were Amerucanas but who knows.

Chick 1: AKA Phoebe (brownish)

Chick 2: Isabela (blackish)

So I picked the plainest and smaller legged ones out of the bunch. They are around 3 weeks old.

ideas on sex and breed?

 

[ChickNmamma]

Hey guys. I think these are EE, was told they were Amerucanas but who knows.

Chick 1: AKA Phoebe (brownish)




Chick 2: Isabela (blackish)




So I picked the plainest and smaller legged ones out of the bunch. They are around 3 weeks old.

ideas on sex and breed?

They are Easter Eggers, Ameraucanas do not come in that color unless they are Silver.. and since you didn't say they were "Silver" you don't have Ameraucanas.

Sex.. well.... they are too young right now. You can sometimes tell by watching their attitudes.. but not always. Hopefully you got two girls - but time will tell.

Are there three birds? That last picture does not have the V on the head - almost looks white? That is the one I would watch for being a boy... too much white already.

Anyway - they are great chickens!

 

[Peneliva]

They are Easter Eggers, Ameraucanas do not come in that color unless they are Silver.. and since you didn't say they were "Silver" you don't have Ameraucanas. 

Sex.. well.... they are too young right now.  You can sometimes tell by watching their attitudes.. but not always.  Hopefully you got two girls - but time will tell.

Are there three birds?  That last picture does not have the V on the head - almost looks white?  That is the one I would watch for being a boy... too much white already.

Anyway - they are great chickens!

Well... the lady said they were silver so thats cool! But I still think they are Easter Eggers.

Two birds. The last picture I think its a lighting ordeal. Believe it or not that was the more black chick. The others had way more white.

 

[ChickNmamma]

Well... the lady said they were silver so thats cool! But I still think they are Easter Eggers.

Two birds. The last picture I think its a lighting ordeal. Believe it or not that was the more black chick. The others had way more white.

I think you are probably right about them being Easter Eggers.. but those are good birds too.

However, if they follow the silver patterning you will start to see salmon on the girl's chest and dark heads and chests on the boys when they get their adult feathers in. I asked a friend who has Silvers (all mine died) and she said you should watch that second one - the comb is very wide - might be a boy. The combs will also get very red on the boys.

I suspected a boy because on all my Easter Eggers the ones with the white chests and black and white feathers on wings .. they all turned into white/gold/black cockerels

And I LOVE the black and white pattern!

 

[Peneliva]

I really hope the plainer one is a pullet. She has a very narrow comb.

About what age do you think I'll know?

 

[Bens-Hens]

Hi team!

I have some EE 'breeding' questions, I don't think it need's it's own thread so this seems to be as good as any a spot to ask.

We have some young Lavender Araucana birds, (Australian standard, not rumpless APA standard) of both males and females. We would like to breed some green laying EE's from them. I would love Olive EE, but the darkest layer we currently have is Barnevelder's. We also have Black Australorps, Light Sussex and RIR's. All with males and females (plus two female SPW but no roo's for them)

I have done some homework and read that blue and brown genes will give green eggs, the darker the brown gene the darker the green eggs. We should produce blue's and varying shades of browns when the girls are old enough, but the greens is where I have questions.

Who should we keep of the males? I am building a rooster box to house two roo's at night, but we currently have 8 in total! My question is, do we keep the Araucana roo's (x2) to go over the BV, RIR, BA pullets, or should I keep BA/RIR/BV roo's to go over our Araucana pullets? We will keep all the girls, but need to lower the roo's to a max of 2.

Does it matter which sex is used for the required genes? Could we keep one BV roo and one Araucana roo, or best for both Araucana's? I have an idea what genes are needed, just not what sex it has to come from.

Any advice on the matter would be greatly appreciated.

 

[RoosterLew]

Hi team!

I have some EE 'breeding' questions, I don't think it need's it's own thread so this seems to be as good as any a spot to ask.

We have some young Lavender Araucana birds, (Australian standard, not rumpless APA standard) of both males and females. We would like to breed some green laying EE's from them. I would love Olive EE, but the darkest layer we currently have is Barnevelder's. We also have Black Australorps, Light Sussex and RIR's. All with males and females (plus two female SPW but no roo's for them)

I have done some homework and read that blue and brown genes will give green eggs, the darker the brown gene the darker the green eggs. We should produce blue's and varying shades of browns when the girls are old enough, but the greens is where I have questions.

Who should we keep of the males? I am building a rooster box to house two roo's at night, but we currently have 8 in total! My question is, do we keep the Araucana roo's (x2) to go over the BV, RIR, BA pullets, or should I keep BA/RIR/BV roo's to go over our Araucana pullets? We will keep all the girls, but need to lower the roo's to a max of 2.

Does it matter which sex is used for the required genes? Could we keep one BV roo and one Araucana roo, or best for both Araucana's? I have an idea what genes are needed, just not what sex it has to come from.

Any advice on the matter would be greatly appreciated.

OK, I am going to give this a try as I have been researching ust such things lately - So this is more of a "see if I get it right" answer to educate both of us...LOL

An Olive egg comes from the brown overlay on a blue egg. Blue eggs actually have a blue color egg shell, where as Brown eggs are an "overlay" of sorts on a white egg shell.

The blue egg gene is dominant to the white, so getting it from either parent will have the offspring laying blue eggs. Getting the brown overlay also from either parent will give you Olive looking eggs.

So As to which Roos to keep to put on your mix of blue & brown egg layers, if you keep Blue egg Roos, you will get blue eggs and Olive eggs. If you keep brown egg Roos, you will get Brown and olive eggs. If you keep one of each you could get brown, blue and olive depending on which Roo over Which girl...

Also in consideration are the traits of the offspring other than Egg color. Temperment, soundness, etc...With that many roos to choose from, I would start by culling any that are aggressive or sickly. IMHO, it should be the goal of any breeder to breed sound and healthy birds above all else. Too many breeders put that to far down the list...

OK...now someone more educated can correct the parts I got wrong, lol.

 

[Bens-Hens]

Thanks very much RoosterLew!

Sounds like I am on the right track. We don't intend on being a breeder to sell or anything, just want to raise our own backyard flock. I would be pretty disappointed to process the rooster that we should have kept.

After previous flock health issues, that is very high on our plan, closely followed by temperament, but I would still like to make sure we are getting the right genes for our little egg goal.

Thanks for your help so far!