The EE braggers thread!!!

[PaisyQ]

I'd say you have one of the three a blue layer and the other two are green layers. It's possible the blue layer is only laying a couple of eggs per week while the green girls, besides being two of them, are laying more per week per hen.

I'd agree with your idea except that other than that first possible blue egg, all the eggs they layed last year were green. And once they all started laying, there were many days when I collected three eggs from them. That seems to indicate to me that they were all laying green eggs. Unless it's possible for one hen to lay two eggs a day?

Beautiful eggs!

My EE lays green tinted and end of season, eggs are light grey almost white. It happens. Usually it s a shade or so off. If it is indeed the same hen laying I'd guess a few will be bright blue until her brown "coating" gets rolling again and they turn shades of green.

Thanks. I think they are beautiful too. So much so, even though I really want to eat them, I don't want to eat them. I guess this is what I'm really wondering; if that brown color gene needs some time to work itself into production. And if she didn't have that blue egg gene, would I be finding white eggs right now?

Well, one of the girls was just in the nest box, and now I hear the egg song out there, so I guess I'll go see if they've left me anymore eggs to add to the collection.

 

[kenzier093]

Depends on your EE. Two copies of the bearded gene and all the chicks will be bearded carrying 1 copy of the bearded gene. If your EE has only copy then 50% will be bearded and 50% not.

My EE that I have now is bearded. So I will have some with and some without correct?

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

My EE that I have now is bearded. So I will have some with and some without correct?

Depends if it has 1 or 2 copies

 

[kenzier093]

Depends if it has 1 or 2 copies

I have no idea then. I guess I will just have to wait and see.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

 
I have a question for everyone. I have a Salmon Faverolle rooster and I want to breed him with some of my EE hens. Will the chicks have feathered legs and what color egg would the chicks lay when they get older? The EE's that I have now lay a blue egg.

@fuzzybutt love
 has some breed mixes and what they will come out looking like under her signature, may be helpful to you

Mine are orloff/ blr wyendotte / ??? / ee's. I think they would be short and pretty, with feathered legs and should be bearded and friendly.

Blooie, i will be following pearl's growing up if you keep posting; i lost a baby that was simply stunning that had similar color.

 

[Blooie]

Pearl and I would be honored!

 

[fuzzybutt love]

I cleaned the coop today. Had lots of "help" underfoot! I have used an old camper thus far. I can't wait to start building a "real" coop this spring!!!!!

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Mine are slowly being bred to my personal standard. I like the impartially blue laced red color ( looks like spangled tips but with blue!)

Personality and a short square body have been the focus so far but this year i may get a few babies with both color AND body, personality!!!

 

[CGinJCMO]

My DH and I are considering hatching some of our eggs. Our rooster is below and is an EE roo. I have a solid white EE and was wondering if any one knows what the cross may bring.

It's hard to say. I had a white hen and a black/brown rooster.


they produced chicks of many colors...
(don't have photos of them as adults)

Now that they've grown up: I've got one pretty black/white roo with yellow legs, one red/brown roo (green legs), and one grey rooster (green legs).
For the girls, I have one that sort of looks like black/white penciled, and several brown partridge coloring. I had one almost totally black but a possum got her a few weeks ago.
My white hen laid blue eggs, but all the daughters lay green so the rooster wasn't "pure" blue. He's gone but I kept the three sons that looked differnt (had two red roos that I didn't keep because they didn't have green legs and their pea combs weren't as tight so I figured they wouldn't keep colored eggs in my future generations). Unless I find a rooster with "pure" blue genes, I'll probably always have green eggs in the future layers.

CG

 

[DuckiesGarden]

Ive got a quick color question...This is one of my older EEs (6+ years old and still laying big green eggs regularly!) I love her color and was wondering if her silver feathers would actually be considered blue? Ive looked at some of the pics of blue chickens on here but just cant tell either way and now Im curious! my only roos are a bantam OEG and a barred rock so I know I dont have a chance of that pretty color coming thru in her offspring, but if that is blue, id know what to look for to have future chickens with that color! Thanks a bunch!

d

 

[LindsayB]

Just wanted to share a pic of my 6 ee mix babies that hatched out this morning. Everyone is dry and warm, and really cute! I just love them.