The EE braggers thread!!!

[draye]

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Which ever one of the pullets that started laying has laid an egg Sunday-Monday and Tuesday. 3 days straight.

 

[debid]

That's how mine started -- good sized eggs 6 days a week from the very start. They also weigh in as grocery store large, reliably which I suspect is the Leghorn in them showing (white or half-white ears on them, too). I had my earliest of the first batch start at 23 but the gal most resembling an Ameraucana with her build and true blue eggs was 32 weeks.

 

[TherryChicken]

my 2/4 12 week old Easter Egger Chicks

I'm in Austin, Texas.. The cockerel is also for sell..

 

[Kassaundra]

Of the chicks I hatched out this year (EE and NN and mixes of those two) I got quite a few w/ blue and blue red coloring, but every chick w/ blue has turned out to be a boy

There is one NN I'm still holding out hope for I am 90% sure it is a boy (the 10% is just hoping really hard!)

But I did get a black/white EE that I am still thinking might be a girl.

 

[ChickNmamma]

Of the chicks I hatched out this year (EE and NN and mixes of those two) I got quite a few w/ blue and blue red coloring, but every chick w/ blue has turned out to be a boy

There is one NN I'm still holding out hope for I am 90% sure it is a boy (the 10% is just hoping really hard!)

But I did get a black/white EE that I am still thinking might be a girl.

With your crosses you do have a chance it will be a girl. Is that the NN with the black skin and the white hat?

 

[Kassaundra]

With your crosses you do have a chance it will be a girl. Is that the NN with the black skin and the white hat?

Oh I have several black and white NN's, but this one is all EE that I'm hoping is a girl.

 

[ChickNmamma]

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Ah, well good luck

 

[salt and pepper]

My EE is going to lay any day!! Can't wait to find a green egg in the coops soon!!

 

[Flowerbh]

Oh I have several black and white NN's, but this one is all EE that I'm hoping is a girl.

That's too bad. I love the blues!

Trixie, my blue EE (on right) (non NN from DDD eggs...) will be a green egg layer. She is now 18 weeks old


Blurry shot of Buzzie, my blue NN. She was the only one of DDDs chicks I couldn't guess the sex on within the first two weeks. She kept going back and forth until she finally remained a girl!!!!! hahahahhahah!

 

[maryhysong]

All right I have a dilemma. Actually I think I've already answered the question in my own mind, but wanted to hear some other opinions. I have about 29 EE hatched early April from three hens and the same roo. I have another 14 of their siblings also growing out, hatched May 3. I sold off the roo thinking I would just keep a son. But I am having some issues with the progeny.

All three of the hens have poor feather quality, as in naked backs a lot of the time, thin poor and brittle feathers. Yes they had some mites but have been treated and have been clear of mites for a bit. But the roo was nice and pretty gentle and altogether he had 6 girls and two of the EE hens got naked backs quick and still have them in spite of good feed and currently no roo. All three hens are on the small side and two of them have really pinched tails. The roo was pretty wide in the tail and I can see in the daughters they are a bit wider than the mothers, but the sons are at least as pinched as the mothers or even more so.

so here's a run down on the mothers and sons:

white hen (from EExEE breeding) laid the purest blue egg, very pinched in the tail, extremely poor feather quality. Her sons at almost 3 months, have naked backs and butts. Like the whole space between the wings and down to the tail is naked with a few tail feathers sticking up. They are also very pinched in the tail, maybe worse than mom.

black & white partridge pattern hen, (from EExEE breeding)laid a pure green egg. better feather quality but still not the best. Pinched tail but not as severe as the white hen. Sons also have naked backs and pinched tails.

black hen; this hen went naked first and is still naked three months later. she laid a sage /grey green egg that has lightened up to just a pale grey, nearly white color. She is from EExBlack Australorp breeding. pinched tail. Her sons have better feather quality than the others, several have what look like might be real pea combs, others have odd combo combs, a couple are more straight combed. They are a smidge wider in the tail than the others.

From the same pen I also hatched from a Welsummer pullet, a Welsummer/Leghorn hen that is small and pinched in the tail but lays a ginormous egg and a Welsummer hen. The offspring from these three girls are all wider in the tail and have much better feather quality. There is a huge variation in comb type and most of the girls look like they have straight combs while some of the boys look like pea combs.

If I was only going for better feathers and wider tails I would just pick one I like from the last group. However there is egg color to consider. My understanding is that the color egg the roo comes from has a great bearing on what he passes down to his daughters. While I want olive eggs and bred this last group for that reason, right now I want a true blue egg boy, so to me, keeping a boy hatched from a brown egg, even if he has a pea comb, there is a chance he could throw brown egg laying girls, right?

It's not a big deal if I don't keep a boy from these, as I have another EE roo right now, just wandering if I am thinking on the right track?