The EE braggers thread!!!

[Kassaundra]

A few sunset shots from tonight

 

[Brookshire11]

Theyre beautiful!

 

[Scrambles55]

@Kassaundra So very beautiful!!

 

[gander007]

Them some nice photos of your flock

I especially like the way you used the evening light in the photo op

 

[Kassaundra]

Thanks she is all that is left of my EE flock, I am keeping her for sentimental reasons. The boy already has a new non eating home.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Do you have any other birds then? I'm so sorry still about your babies.

If she's all there is perhaps it's time to break down and get a chicken diaper?

 

[Kassaundra]

Do you have any other birds then? I'm so sorry still about your babies.

If she's all there is perhaps it's time to break down and get a chicken diaper?

I have what's left of my NN flock, they were in the massacre too, but had more that survived then the EE.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Ok, so not completely lost then. Are you not going to do ee anymore? (you let the roo go)

 

[TAMMACLEAN]

I have five EE's and for some reason 3 of them haven't laid an egg in months. I have 3 in a coop with a rooster and the other two are in a different coop. One of the others was laying until it got very cold out. The other is a daughter to the 3 with the rooster and she hasn't started laying yet. But the 3 haven't been very good layers for at least 6 months now. I was getting 3 eggs a day from them but now I'm lucky to get 1 egg a month. My plan with them was to breed and sell the chicks and hatching eggs but that is not working out. Is it possible the rooster is upsetting them? They are beautiful and sweet but not doing much. The rooster is stunning but he has become a jerk to people so he will be leaving.

The next question I have is that I have a rooster that is a mix between a buff silkie and an EE. What do you think he might throw if I put him in with the 3 that aren't laying? I'll have to get pictures of them all later.

 

[OldChurchEggery1]

TAMMA, it could be the ups and downs of the weather we're having. The days are starting to lengthen but laying in my flock has been patchy and sporadic as well. If they're directing most of their energy to staying warm or regrowing lost feathers from a moult, it's expected production would drop. You could try hanging a lightbulb in the coop to simulate longer days and see if that brings them back into production. Is there a nearby threat that might be bothering them, like a new barking dog that moved in next door? Stress can make them go off of peak form, too. My husband likes to have people down to target shoot and for a few days after the hours of gunfire, my chickens seem to hold back on the eggs.

What's your feeding program like? That might be another area to consider- are they getting adequate nutrition and access to water each day? It can be hard to keep water in a liquid state for everyone to get her fill, so if the waterers freeze over before all of the hens have had a drink that could impact production, too. I don't heat my waterers in the winter (somehow the equation of water + electricity + coop = ? just doesn't sound safe to me) so I have to change them out during the day and bring them in at night. I'd give your hens a chance through spring to show what they can do in favorable weather conditions.

I don't know what you might get from your cross but someone else may.