The EE braggers thread!!!

[Kassaundra]

Oh my gosh!!!! LOL LOL LOL. What's up with the fella on the right and behind????! are they naked neck cross?????

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Cool J


Audra

 

[chicken pickin]

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Cool J


Audra

I love Audra she is very pretty. My 11 yr old Daughter just discovered NN and Showgirls. She loves them! I foresee some in her future.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

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Cool J


Audra

So pretty! I especially like audra

 

[Kassaundra]

I love Audra she is very pretty. My 11 yr old Daughter just discovered NN and Showgirls. She loves them! I foresee some in her future.

They are such an awesome breed, and do so well in the heat.




Just saw where you are from and that heat isn't a big concern for you. Still an awesome breed. Very easy to go either traditional SOP if she is into showing, or to fancy up since you can see instantly if they are NN at hatch, the gene doesn't "hide" if they have the gene it shows itself.

 

[Kassaundra]

So pretty! I especially like audra

Thanks, she is still under a year, somewhere near 6 months old. I knew her mother carried one copy of mottled, but had no clue her father did too, but obviously he did, it will be interesting to see her changes at first molt.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

so "polka dots" on the chest are mottled???
Still trying to decipher the difference between mottled and spangled, laced. And what combining them gets....... I think mottling is the pattern that i've been liking. My new roo is mottled blue and red, i think! His girl that he came with may carry one of the genes (i'm hoping) and my other girl for the breeding idk about. Has a perfect dot of the blue on the end of each feather. Not laced, too thick for that i think?

I've posted them before, but here's my hopeful trio again:
hen don't have polka dots, but she hasn't done her adult molt yet.

roo's pattern, this is the pattern i want on the hens, too

this hen got the pattern after this last molt

This isn't the same hen but the hen has a little smaller bit of this on the end of the feathers;
it seems to show up in the adult molt.



And why i like the color; my roo's color was stunning but he stuck out like a sore thumb! The hens brown and blue
blends great with the surroundings. (see the one up top? there are 2 ) I think a predator would have a little difficulty picking them
out if they were still; probably the new roo is vulnerable though because he's red and birds SEE red.

 

[Kassaundra]

so "polka dots" on the chest are mottled???
Still trying to decipher the difference between mottled and spangled, laced. And what combining them gets....... I think mottling is the pattern that i've been liking. My new roo is mottled blue and red, i think! His girl that he came with may carry one of the genes (i'm hoping) and my other girl for the breeding idk about. Has a perfect dot of the blue on the end of each feather. Not laced, too thick for that i think?

I've posted them before, but here's my hopeful trio again:
hen don't have polka dots, but she hasn't done her adult molt yet.

roo's pattern, this is the pattern i want on the hens, too

this hen got the pattern after this last molt

This isn't the same hen but the hen has a little smaller bit of this on the end of the feathers;
it seems to show up in the adult molt.



And why i like the color; my roo's color was stunning but he stuck out like a sore thumb! The hens brown and blue
blends great with the surroundings. (see the one up top? there are 2 ) I think a predator would have a little difficulty picking them
out if they were still; probably the new roo is vulnerable though because he's red and birds SEE red.

I have no clue if this answer is going to be technically correct, but this is my understanding. Mottled is like small splotches all over and is two colors (usually black and white) spangled has that same splotchy look but is more then two colors, laced is two colors and there is no random splotching but an outline pattern to the individual feathers, sometimes a double outline pattern. Then there is "incomplete" lacing from mixed genetics. (don't know if that is a real term, just how I see it so how I describe it.)

 

[Kassaundra]

Oh and the other thing I know genetically is for mottled to show there needs to be two genes, both parents need to be carriers at least for offspring to show mottled. Mottled patterning does not complete until after first adult molt.

 

[alibra]

so "polka dots" on the chest are mottled??? Still trying to decipher the difference between mottled and spangled, laced. And what combining them gets....... I think mottling is the pattern that i've been liking. My new roo is mottled blue and red, i think! His girl that he came with may carry one of the genes (i'm hoping) and my other girl for the breeding idk about. Has a perfect dot of the blue on the end of each feather. Not laced, too thick for that i think? I've posted them before, but here's my hopeful trio again: hen don't have polka dots, but she hasn't done her adult molt yet. roo's pattern, this is the pattern i want on the hens, too this hen got the pattern after this last molt This isn't the same hen but the hen has a little smaller bit of this on the end of the feathers; it seems to show up in the adult molt. And why i like the color; my roo's color was stunning but he stuck out like a sore thumb! The hens brown and blue blends great with the surroundings. (see the one up top? there are 2 ) I think a predator would have a little difficulty picking them out if they were still; probably the new roo is vulnerable though because he's red and birds SEE red.

I don't think it's mottled, I think it's incomplete lacing (pattern gene)

 

[Kassaundra]

I don't think it's mottled, I think it's incomplete lacing (pattern gene)

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