The EE braggers thread!!!

[jerryse]

So you think some would come out blue? Or do you mean like a splash with blue in it?

No they will all be basically blue reds / blue partridge . If he is truly splash blue red / blue partridge as the larger picture seems to confirm . Blue genetics apply in this case . Splash blue partridge x normal ( black partridge ) partridge = 100% blue partridge . Since these are EE recessive color genes may be hidden and pop up . This is as good as it gets for predicting EE colors .

 

[ChickyChickens]

Agh,

Chciken sisters from another continent, how cool is that!!

X2! YAY!!!!

 

[ccr chickens]

I had a new hatch this morning, it came from a smallish size olive colored egg. I see the tuffed cheeks and darker colored legs but it has a straight comb???

Very cute looks just like my babies

 

[gander007]

My EE pullet at 23 weeks of age with her first hatch .....






Update now she is 25 weeks old and her and the chicks are
doing well I had to get them in their box to photograph them
all together so feed works great for this little trick .....

 

[Hinotori]

Update now she is 25 weeks old and her and the chicks are
doing well I had to get them in their box to photograph them
all together so feed works great for this little trick .....

She was nice and young to go broody. And that is a big bunch of chicks to wrangle!

 

[Manningjw]

Glad I am not the only one with super broody EEs... My mixed breed hen has a fair amount of White Leghorn in her bloodline but she went broody very young, less than 6 months old if I remember right. She has gone broody 4 times now and is only 1 year and 2 months old.

 

[gander007]

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It so amuses me how good she is at being a momma that I have to put up her pictures and tell her story as I never really had such a pullet momma before .....

And she is so good at it also .......

 

[gander007]

Glad I am not the only one with super broody EEs... My mixed breed hen has a fair amount of White Leghorn in her bloodline but she went broody very young, less than 6 months old if I remember right. She has gone broody 4 times now and is only 1 year and 2 months old.

Oh great someone else has a super broody EE so how many chicks will your hen take on ....

This one here is just super silly and I believe she will just take on a yard full if let be ....

I check on them during the night and she will have chicks under her on her and up to a foot away kind of looks like the old women in the shoe with so many children ,, well you get the idea .....

 

[Yoyo with chick]

A lot of reds and maybe some gold and some could even have some blue mixed in.

how can you tell what color they will be?

 

[RoosterLew]

Dianne88 - I'd like to know what the lineage behind the straight comb chick from a green egg was? Sounds interesting!

how can you tell what color they will be?

Once you get to studying color genetics alot of things make since...
Basically there are 3 colors in a chicken...White, black and red (which genetically is gold...I think??)
All the rest come from modifications to those in some way, shape or form.
Then there are pattern genes...
When you know that stuff, you can look at a bird, and kind of tell what its got in it, and then know what it will "throw"....kind of!

When you think that you have it alllll fingered out real good, you will get it eggzactry wrong!
LOL

Its not confusing at all, except that grey is black +blue so it is called blue, but blue+blue= splash, but true blue is Lavendar and gold is red, and a white bird has another color hiding underneath it, sometimes, and black edging is not lacing, and .....yeah OK!! lol