The EE braggers thread!!!

Thanks for the pictures! That really makes me feel a little more reassured XD

Because EE's can have other breeds mixed in, especially if someone is trying to change or add an egg color, these additions can change the comb type. I don't know how many times I've thought I had a pullet until it crowed. Then I had one that looked like the last one in your row of pictures and it developed a rooster's curved feather on it's tail. Bummer! But thankfully that feather fell out, never to return, and she lays a nice large greenish blue egg almost every day.
Anymore I find the best way to sex them is when they are very young, 10 days to two weeks I watch their behavior. That's a big clue and also the color of the comb. The boys' turn a brighter color very quickly
I know several people with EE's and the following is also a big clue. I've had yellow EE chicks which can be either sex, but the chipmunk patterned babies can be either but if you have a speckled one or a broken chipmunk patterned one, you most likely have a boy.
 
My bantam girls. When they go broody, (very frequently!) they like to sit on each other since they're not getting any eggs to hatch. :) The one on top is Tulip, and the poor hen poking out from under her is Opal.


Another pic of them:
 
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My bantam girls. When they go broody, (very frequently!) they like to sit on each other since they're not getting any eggs to hatch. :) The one on top is Tulip, and the poor hen poking out from under her is Opal.


Another pic of them:
Too funny,
My easter eggers like to sit on each other too, even when not broody. The other day I opened the nestbox door to get the eggs, only to find one sitting on the other. The top hen promptly laid her egg, hopped off, and sang her song. Clearly another EE is a better nest than straw.
 
Too funny,
My easter eggers like to sit on each other too, even when not broody. The other day I opened the nestbox door to get the eggs, only to find one sitting on the other. The top hen promptly laid her egg, hopped off, and sang her song. Clearly another EE is a better nest than straw.

Haha. Must be an EE thing? I have numerous pictures of them doing this. Here's another one, but this time Opal decided to sit on Tulip. I love my EEs. They are characters! Wait, so did your EE lay an egg on top of the other one?
 
Yeah! she laid the egg right on her sister's back! I grabbed it and it was still wet (and had a few small downlike feathers attached, of course). Silly girls - I love them!

I think they like that particular nest box best and are Not Willing to go to the 2 other perfectly good nestboxes.
 
Yeah! she laid the egg right on her sister's back! I grabbed it and it was still wet (and had a few small downlike feathers attached, of course). Silly girls - I love them!

I think they like that particular nest box best and are Not Willing to go to the 2 other perfectly good nestboxes.

That's funny! Hey, why use all the other available nest boxes when all the hens can cram into one?
 
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New mommy found this one in the road. He has the best personality comes when I call. I love my EE
 
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He hears me talking on the phone in the morning and comes to my window. He is a very unique Pet would have never of thought of myself as being a Crazy Chicken lady lol
 
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