The EE braggers thread!!!

[SHERRING7712]

This is Stella.
In March we picked up 5 EE, 5 RIR, and 5 BR at the local feed store. My brother in law raised them in his brooder because we had 20 RedSexLinks chicks in our brooder and no extra room. He didn't love them the right way so they got no handling as babies. Thus when they got old enough to come here, they weren't very people friendly. They didn't want to be petted or even approached unless you had food in your hand. Suddenly last Friday Stella came up on the back porch and sat down with me to read the news and watch me drink coffee. She is even letting our 4 year old grandson pet her. I was glad she had gotten friendlier but confused. Sunday afternoon she gifted us with her first jumbo green egg! My wife is so excited! Stella is now her favorite hen and was invited up on the porch for her own bowl of peas last night. I wonder if the other hens are calling her "mama's girl" now.

Stella is just beautiful. Love her colors! I definitely have a "mama's girl" too, she is my ameracauna Liberty. She isn't the most people oriented (she is two years old and we have only had her a few months) but she lays me a big blue egg almost every day. She has laid for 2 weeks straight before taking a single day off. She didn't use to announce that she had laid an egg but now when she has finished she comes out and announces until someone goes out and collects her egg and gives her some meal worms! LOL funny how they "train" us huh!

 

[Dmontgomery]

I need to try that, or something. Stella hasn't sung the egg song yet, that I've noticed. Out of 36 hens only 5 are old enough to lay and I recognize each individual song right now.

 

[Selsley]

I can and DO blame the hatcheries!!!!!! "Trying to make money" with mislabeled goods is bad business and unethical.


More than likely she will lay blue or green. Less likely olive (actually pretty unlikely unless specifically bred for it) or shades of brown.

agreed. to get olive which is quite dark, the breed would need to initially be a dark brown layer, and the other a definite blue layer and not a miss-sold ameraucana otherwise you could just end up with brown,
hoping our "orpaucana" ee will lay green tinted eggs if its a hen, since the orpington lays a very pale brown egg.

 

[Folly's place]

This summer I crossed my Black Copper Marans rooster with my EE hens, and will have Olive Eggers! His family lays chocolate brown eggs, and the EEs lay blue-green, so olive eggs next year! The pullets are black, and the cockrels are either black or black copper. Beautiful! I'm in southern Michigan if any of you are interested in these. Mary

 

[Dmontgomery]

This is Elvis. He's 5 months old and has finally started to develop roostering skills. He's been crowing for a couple months and has been prolific at mating for several weeks. He is just now starting to locate food for the hens and break up squabbles in the run. Will he grow spurs like other roosters? A broody OEGB is about to hatch an egg he produced with a RIR. Will that chick have any EE characteristics?
You can tell I am completely ignorant about this breed.

 

[junebuggena]

This is Elvis. He's 5 months old and has finally started to develop roostering skills. He's been crowing for a couple months and has been prolific at mating for several weeks. He is just now starting to locate food for the hens and break up squabbles in the run. Will he grow spurs like other roosters? A broody OEGB is about to hatch an egg he produced with a RIR. Will that chick have any EE characteristics?
You can tell I am completely ignorant about this breed.

It depends. If the rooster is pure for the muffs and pea comb, then yes. If he only has one copy of those genes, there a 50/50 shot at a chick looking like a typical Easter Egger.

 

[Selsley]

This summer I crossed my Black Copper Marans rooster with my EE hens, and will have Olive Eggers! His family lays chocolate brown eggs, and the EEs lay blue-green, so olive eggs next year! The pullets are black, and the cockrels are either black or black copper. Beautiful! I'm in southern Michigan if any of you are interested in these. Mary

EEs offspring will not neccessarily pass over the blue gene to its young
i think you would be better off having a blue gene rooster araucana/ameraucana/legbar mating chocolate laying hens, but im only guessing

 

[Folly's place]

We'll find out when those pullets are in lay! I didn't look it up, but I did think that the blue egg color would likely be dominant. Mary

 

[junebuggena]

We'll find out when those pullets are in lay! I didn't look it up, but I did think that the blue egg color would likely be dominant. Mary

The blue eggshell gene is dominant over the white eggshell gene. But you can't always depend on an Easter Egger to be 'pure' for blue eggshell.

 

[Folly's place]

So very true! Mary