The EE braggers thread!!!

[chickydoos]

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Geeze silkies have enough problems seeing without beards lol![/quote

Haha good one!

 

[Scrambled8]

Got my 1st ee egg from one of my 3 today- right smack dab in the middle of a winter storm. Thankfully she decided to lay it in the nest box in the coop. I'm so proud of her. Waiting for the last of the 3 to start. Gave some eggs away to someone i work with and it still floors people that 1. i raise chickens (which i love) and 2. that i get colored eggs. It's amazing that everyday folk have never heard of this.

the chicken on the right looks JUST LIKE MINE

 

[RoosterLew]

Non of my EE's have gone broody. if you are wanting to hatch your eggs you might want to add a hen whos breed is know to ho broody or research incubators. im running 2 EE roos with my flock and all the babies have pufft cheeks see the picks a page or so back. I can't wait to see the blue chick develop. Hope its a pullet. One of my roof looks a lot like yours. the othet is what I believe is called lemon blue splash. He is my Avatar

I have never heard of any "Lemon" in regards to Ameraucanas, but I am no expert. I have been studying them for a few months now.
There are , Splash and wheaten splash

Now, this next part I am going to say wrong, I guarantee it, lol....It is how it makes since to me, but anyone feel free to correct my symantics!

I really don't think there could be a thing as "Blue Splash" as blue and splash are different color varieties, but at the same time they are the smae color geneically speaking....kinda....LOL

He is a very nice looking bird though!

 

[Suzierd]

What gets shocked is their nose. Foxes, dogs, coyotes, and raccoons all have thick fur but they lead with their nice wet noses.  That is why the first strand or in you case the net has to be very close to the ground. If I remember right the bottom strand/wire isn't electrified so that there isn't a grounding issue.  Check on the website where you are buying the product but it should be a neutral wire on the very bottom.  Also think of an animals reaction to shock when you are setting it up.  If an animal gets shocked in the face it will jump back and flee or try again (and get shocked again until it gives up) depending on the animal.  If it gets shocked anywhere behind its head it will run forward causing it to tear through the net or already be in you enclosure.  That is one of the reason that the net squares need to be smaller the other being to keep smaller birds in.  Good luck!

Great information thanks, should work good then.

 

[Suzierd]

This also means I should be able to put plastic tent stakes on the bottom wire right? I will ask when I buy it.

 

[CGinJCMO]

While I had him up close and personal, I took photos of his comb because I don't know what it's mixed with but thought it kind of looked unique.






CG

He looks beautiful! Any chance you can get a full body shot? Id love to see!

CG

 

[chickadoodles]

CG

He is very handsome CG!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

I really don't think there could be a thing as "Blue Splash"  as blue and splash are different color varieties, but at the same time they are the smae color geneically speaking....kinda....LOL

Splash and Blue Splash are used interchangeably from what I've seen, though it does seem like most people who are actually working with these birds call them Splash.

They are not quite genetically the same, as Splash occurs with birds that carry two blue genes (b/b) and blue occurs in birds that carry just one blue gene (B/b). Blue is partially dominant, so if you breed a Blue bird to a Blue bird, you get 25% Black (B/B), 50% Blue (B/b), and 25% Splash (b/b) offspring. So they are related colors in a sense, but not genetically the same color.

As an interesting side note here, Blue and Black are both accepted colors of Ameraucana, but apparently Splash isn't, even though Splash is a natural outcome of Blue X Blue breedings. Oh, and there isn't a Lemon Ameraucana in the standard, nor have I heard of any lemon projects, but that doesn't mean they aren't out there somewhere.

(Hope I didn't bore y'all to death. )

 

[LaLa Chickie]

She was beautiful, very sad they couldn't save her and relocate. Poison is awful way to go.

I agree.Putting her down was the quickest most humane thing since they couldn't treat her. I've lost kittens to poison and it's a horrible, horrible death.

 

[TREX]

This is a photo of the Fox that approached me in my front yard. I'm sure it had eaten something poisoned according to Animal Control, they put her down the next day they say she was probably poisoned. They said they've had a huge number of Domestic and Wild life dying from Gopher poisons etc that people aren't putting out correctly in their yards. She was beautiful...she laid down in front of me, very hot day...we shaded her for 1 1/2hrs until Animal Control showed up, then when they tried to catch her she suddenly gained her energy and bolted, but they got her in the loop. That's why she's standing up in the truck. I didn't even know we had Fox here where we live. I've lost Chickens to Coyotes, but maybe I've lost to the Fox also and never knew it. I had hoped they would take her to the Wild Life Rescue, but they said the "funds" aren't there to save her. Good luck with your chickens, I still think they are happier roaming than being all cooped up. It's the risk we take.

Very sad. She was beautiful. My 2 cats died by what the vet said was antifreeze poisoning. It is a terrible sometimes slow,very painful way for anything to die.