The EE braggers thread!!!

[jerryse]

I'm one of them that has a White hen. I just hatched out eggs from her with blackish colored rooster. One of the offspring is white with cream feathers coming in and the rest are various shades of black/brown. I guess that means her white is recessive.

CG

I have gone and just catching up.Yes on recessive white.The one white one could have 2 copies of recessive white but if it has some spots of colored feathers as it grows up it would be dominate white.It is possible to carry both kinds of white.

 

[jerryse]

He looks similar to my roo. Mine just attacked me (again

-caught him up and held him upside down so he'll avoid me for a while) so I'm debating about making soup out of him and raising one of his sons (I'm assuming I've got a boy out of the 6 chicks I hatched out a couple of weeks ago) to be the next head of the flock. The male chick's biological mother will still be around (too much inbreeding?) but at least she can have a chance to grow her feathers back because the EE roo loves the EE hen. I could also try another hatching of EE eggs after the d'uccles hatch in 2 more weeks and see what I get. One thing I have to figure out is what to do for a brooder (both for the ones in incubator and anyothers I decide to hatch). The 6 babies I have now are being raised by broody hen, my temporary housing is being used by polish bantam chicks and I don't want to put them into the d'uccles yet until they are big enough to keep from being bullied.

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

That is a cushion comb.A combo of rose and pea comb.

 

[LaLa Chickie]

With 9 yr. old's help, I got photos of each individual chick (I think, it's possible we grabbed one twice and missed one - those brownish ones are kinda hard to keep track of and differentiate. These are the ones that a broody Barred Rock hatched about 2, almost 3 weeks ago. They all came from the EE roo posted earlier, and solid white EE hen's blue eggs.


#1 The only light colored chick

Just figured out today that she? has a crooked beak. Not affecting her yet. Will have to see what BYC has to say about crooked beak. Because of the different color, I thought I'd keep it even if it ended up being a boy.

#2
raised comb starting to show - boy?


#3
flat comb - girl?


#4
raised ridge comb - boy?


#5
can't tell from photo what type of comb it looked like in real life


#6
another one I can't tell from photo (sometimes my camera doesn't like me)




CG

Adorable what ever it turns out to be...

 

[RoosterLew]

Jerryse
Isn't a cushion comb the same genetics as a walnut comb?

 

[CGinJCMO]

Quote:
Thanks.

CG

 

[MaineiacJay]

hello all!

i was completely new to chickens when i bought 8 Easter Eggers. 5 turned out to be roosters, and 3 pullets. we decided to keep 2 of the males that came with that and are in the process of rehoming the remaining 3. below are the 5 EEs from the first batch that we are keeping. the first two are the roosters. these guys are about 10 weeks old if i had to estimate (i was never given a hatch date - nor breed other than "easter egger" feel free to guess at some breeds!).

after the blunder of getting more roosters when i wanted pullets, i ventured out to a different source and got 5 more 15 week old. i did get a third rooster, but i just couldnt resist him. hes a silkie/muran mix i believe. i call him afro chicken.

the rest, as far as i know, are pullets. again, feel free to guess the breeds. she has: black copper muran rooster, blue ameraucana rooster, ameraucana hens, silkie hens, silkie rooster.

and thats my bunch! i want to breed them (by demand) when they start producing eggs. i have silver laced wyandottes and will be getting silkies shortly. safe to say, ive become addicted to chickens!

 

[kara1015]

2 of the babies from my recent hatch from my flock. They are so fluffy!

 

[jerryse]

Jerryse
Isn't a cushion comb the same genetics as a walnut comb?

Yes and also strawberry.Same genetics different shape.

 

[K Epp]

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.

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As I was proof reading my comment it seemed a little angry... I do not mean it that way just giving some background to what I'm working on.

I got chickens for the eggs. Now I'm addicted to what color will come next. No one warned me chickens would be addictive.

Both my roos are Ameraucana project culls. Technically they are Non Standard Ameraucana so you know what that means. I have had several people try to buy Beauregard the lemon colored just because he is so pretty, but he is also just as sweet so he isn't going anywhere. I use those names just to try to describe them the best I can so people will know what I'm talking about. The great thing is these boys are producing 100% beards and muffs in their chicks no matter what I breed them with. 100% in 3 dozen eggs is pretty good to me. Cant wait to see is I get the egg color as well. I'm keeping the 5 my broody hatched and have given the rest away to people who will tell me the egg color when the time comes.

Now a question if two EE's produce a standard Ameraucana color is it titled Americauna because I may have one in the blue chick. I love having EE's because you never know what your going to get.


Its feet are darkening up. This is 5 days old.


The brood.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

EEs are perfect for 'what color will come next'! And yeah, I get what you're saying for non-standard Ameraucanas.

I think they usually say no because you don't know the genetics that this bird carries and so you don't know if it will breed true. I believe they say if it breeds true 50% of the time that it qualifies for the standard, but I'm not totally sure there. This is assuming the chick ends up with slate legs, not green or willow, and has a proper comb. Obviously, if you find any feathers of a color other than blue, you're not going to be able to pass it as a blue Am, either.

I should note here that I don't actually have any Ameraucanas or experience with breeding them, but I do want to breed silvers in the future and so I have done my share of research on the breed.