The EE braggers thread!!!

[K Epp]

He looks very pretty. I have one too strait out of the pullet batch. Happens to me every time. Now I can pick out Silkie pullets out of a straight run with 99% accuracy. Which is crazy. I have a home for him as soon as the hackle or saddle feathers come in it I hear the first crow.

 

[Hinotori]

Almost 8 weeks old now. Small pink comb. The combs on her brothers are huge.

 

[alibra]

In love. Any of you guys had chicks that look like my three? What'd they grow up to look like?

 

[MommaHen77]

In love. Any of you guys had chicks that look like my three? What'd they grow up to look like?

You have very cute chicks and my EE don't look like yours. I will post a pic of my EE chicks

 

[MommaHen77]

my Six EE are now about 2 weeks old and growing fast I am sure having a blast Raising my EE and three Wyandottes. my EE are a Straight Run. Here is newer pic of my chicks

 

[kenzier093]

Here is snowflake! She is very friendly and loves to set on my lap and I just love her!

 

[Peach2u]

My first hatch is over. I started out with 48 EE and OE eggs. My first chick came out on the 19th day. Then the others came out on the 20th-22nd day. I had 4 zip or put holes in the shells but not make it out on day 20. Day 22 The last 4 where doing the same peeping but couldn't get out of the shell. So I helped them out. I had 20 hatch in all. I'm not sure if the last 2 will make it they look very small against their hatch mates.

 

[CGinJCMO]

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I have chicks from a barred rock hen/EE roo and got barring on one (others got sold as straight run so I only have this one left) that has shown to be a boy. I was curious to know if that was always true (I was having a hard time finding the info) so I isolated my 3 barred rock hens, collected their eggs for a week (plus blue eggs) then filled the bator with everyone else that was large enough (avoided the mishappened and pullet smalls) and started incubating (incubator does better with full amount of eggs). I wanted to see how many black chicks I get, and how many barred chicks from the black ones. This just confirmed my experiment and now I don't have to wait for the end of the next month to see hatching and feathering.

CG

 

[jerryse]

I have chicks from a barred rock hen/EE roo and got barring on one (others got sold as straight run so I only have this one left) that has shown to be a boy. I was curious to know if that was always true (I was having a hard time finding the info) so I isolated my 3 barred rock hens, collected their eggs for a week (plus blue eggs) then filled the bator with everyone else that was large enough (avoided the mishappened and pullet smalls) and started incubating (incubator does better with full amount of eggs). I wanted to see how many black chicks I get, and how many barred chicks from the black ones. This just confirmed my experiment and now I don't have to wait for the end of the next month to see hatching and feathering.

CG

That is a sex linked mating. Males are barred females not. There is a thread with more info . Just look up sex linked . I would copy and paste it but don't know how . Go back a few pages I posted a picture of some I hatched a few days ago. Barred hen x non barred rooster always the same results. Does not work with a barred rooster over non barred hens .

 

[CGinJCMO]

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I wasn't sure if it worked with barred rock hens and ANY rooster (have three EE roos running around)...the only info I could really find was making black sex links and that was usually using a RIR roo. I have a mostly black roo, mostly red roo, and a mostly white/grey roo and any one of them could have been the father of the chicks.

CG