The EE braggers thread!!!

[Catandherchicks]

'Wild-type' hens have patterning through the chest.

Ahhh. Thanks.

 

[Selsley]

your arucanna rooster cross... what is he crossed with? My rooster looks just like that...

if your talking to me, mines supposed to be a pure bred slovac strain rooster, and a pure french strain hen, its our brown hen thats suspected cross
since its comb is long has no buffs and its egg is green tinged, our pure strain hen lays an egg with no hint of green

 

[curious chickee]

Collecting my barred rock eggs now to make sex-link EE. Blue wheaten roo x barred rock hen

 

[duluthralphie]

I am curious why do you want sex linked EE?

To me the sex linked birds are a pain and I get stuck with too many males.

 

[junebuggena]

Collecting my barred rock eggs now to make sex-link EE. Blue wheaten roo x barred rock hen

The only issue with using a blue wheaten is that the blue gene can make the light head spot that indicates barring, difficult to see.

 

[curious chickee]

True, but as I am keeping these I will know for sure as their feathers grow in. Also if they are like my other blues, they were so dark at hatch a spot will be easy to see. I will definitely take pictures after hatch. In the future, my barred rock will be crossed with a true black ameracauna, which will make black EE sex links. My cockerel is just still to young for this hatch.

 

[curious chickee]

I am curious why do you want sex linked EE?

To me the sex linked birds are a pain and I get stuck with too many males.

I send the boys to the local auction so all I am raising are pullerts.

 

[Selsley]

I got 3 EEs from Meyer June last year. One was nearly pure white with the FAINTEST apricot hint (an I THINK I see it hint) on top of her head. She stayed mostly white with an apricot splash on her breast and running down her back. Eos:

is it buff? we just bread our 1st EE from an araucana male and buff orpington im hoping it will be buff, as of now it has no markings at all.
just a yellow bundle of fluff with white flights. although it does have a black dot behind each wing. its also rumpless

 

[junebuggena]

is it buff? we just bread our 1st EE from an araucana male and buff orpington im hoping it will be buff, as of now it has no markings at all.
just a yellow bundle of fluff with white flights. although it does have a black dot behind each wing. its also rumpless

The bird you are asking about is Splash Partridge. Your chick is white. Orpingtons can carry dominant white, but since they don't have black pattern it can't express. You rooster is Blue, which a dilute of extended black pattern. The dominant white from the Orpington is making the black pattern (diluted by the Blue gene) of the rooster turn white. Make sense?

 

[duluthralphie]

I send the boys to the local auction so all I am raising are pullerts.

Do you tell them at the auction they are boys? Will someone actually buy EE boys?

I have 100 Cream legbar cockerels that are living in the bus stop waiting for the freezer camp bus. I cannot even give them away.