The EE braggers thread!!!

[FoggyMountain]

Thanks to these forums I now know that I have 5 beautiful EE's! I hatched them myself from supposed Ameraucana hatching eggs but that's ok. I love them and I am excited to see what fun colored eggs we end up with. So.. here they are!
(whoops I forgot.. Adonis was not hatched by me lol he is 5 months old. The rest are just about 12 weeks.)

 

[Tiddbit74]

Here's some pictures of my two EEs, they are 3 weeks old now.


Cadbury

Daffodil

 

[Peneliva]

Any idea on gender yet guys??

So one vote girl! Any other takers?
Any ideas on color she will turn out??

 

[TherryChicken]

Any idea on gender yet guys??

I agree, gir

 

[K Epp]

I had a ton of chickens, got rid of quite a few and then bought somemore, then the dogs I mentioned before attacked.Took me down to an all time low for me about 5 which is not nearly enough lol. Bought a couple of breeds that I had been wanting before and hatched some mixed breeds.Then got some hatching eggs and chicks to start up my breeding program. They arent old enough to breed yet but will be in a few months. Then I plan on keeping some of their offspring. After I start breeding, I will never have below 50 chickens.It will probably be somewhere between 50-100.Yes I am obsessed with chickens lol.Feed wont cost all that much, because they will free range and be able to scrath and eat a lot of bugs and I have a garden.Most of what I grow I dont eat, but I give the chickens a lot of fresh produce. Winter is when the feed bill gets expensive for me.because the ground is covered in snow and the garden is dead. Your not the onlyone that has too many chickens lol.I have 5 adults, 4 teenagers, 7 pre-teens, 9 chicks, and 30 eggs in the incubator and am getting more really soon constantly watching for hatching eggs....thinking about buying a second incubator(that i dont need lol). I had a  lot more before that but decided that their were certain breeds I wanted to focus on, plus I keep some various breeds for showing.

I let mine free range too from about 7am until they go in at night. I have 11 adult, 15 teens, 24 chicks, 4 ducks, 2 turkeys and 2 goats. All of wich are spoiled a.d think any time I have a white bucket or anything else in my hand I should be feeding them. They have around 2 acres fenced in and all but the ones I have in coops are out all day. Right now the only thing I keep up is the hen and chicks, and my teen bantam who have some big chicks with them now. I turn them out when im home and can watch and make sure they don't get picked on.

 

[Peach2u]

I too let mine free range from sun up to sun down. I lost 2 hens last year to the heat as well. Both where broody and would not come out of the box to drink water. DARWIN! for the flock on super hot days I freeze gallon jugs of water and place them in the water buckets. They also love it when you throw grapes, strawberries or other treats in a topless jug of water and freeze it. Set the frozen chunk in a pan. It helps cool them down because they sit and peck at the ice till they get the treats out. Same idea as us sticking our head in the freezer to get ice. LOL The ice takes longer to melt the larger the chunk. I tried a 5 gal bucket with the treats in it once. It was a beast to carry to the pen! Gallon milk jugs work the best. I like the square jugs.

Putting a fan out of reach helps too. On real hot days I open all the coop doors except the nest boxes and put a small fan in the window.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I let mine free range too from about 7am until they go in at night. I have 11 adult, 15 teens, 24 chicks, 4 ducks, 2 turkeys and 2 goats. All of wich are spoiled a.d think any time I have a white bucket or anything else in my hand I should be feeding them. They have around 2 acres fenced in and all but the ones I have in coops are out all day. Right now the only thing I keep up is the hen and chicks, and my teen bantam who have some big chicks with them now. I turn them out when im home and can watch and make sure they don't get picked on.

Ya, my chickens think when I have a bucket I have pumpkin guts, because halloween, I had the guts from the pumpkins I carved. So then expect pumkin guts when they see buckets lol. And my goats eat and eat and eat. It is like they are always hungury, even though they get feed a ton. But that is how goats are I have been around them all my life.Right now I have 4.

 

[Peach2u]

Yes the day after Halloween my chickens get the carved pumpkins if they are not moldy. And all summer they get the watermelon rinds. I got a free watermelon because it was broken in half off the truck. I gave it to them and they had knock down drag out fights over it. They will eat every thing but the skin. The next day all that is left is a curled up skin.

 

[Kassaundra]

Some of the 8.5 week EE I hatched from my own girls eggs


My coveted b/w EE girl, still thinking girl anyway.


Mr personality, such a son of Oreo!





I love this look of this girl, jet black w/ the white lacing on her breast she is has some birchen in her lineage




Yeta, named for Yeta the wonder chicken who is no more. This yeta has big shoe to fill.


Skyfire's boy


another boy

 

[Little Wing]

Those are all beautiful Kassaundra. I love the black face one!