The EE braggers thread!!!

[Bantimna]

Can I follow this thread? Please

Even though I love Chickens those EE catch my eye.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

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LOL although they often masquerade as family members, the EE's are chickens!

 

[luvarabhorses]

Thanks Arizona for making me feel welcome again.
I generally call them EE crosses as in EE/Cochin but once you get into 80% EE, 5% cochin, 5% silkie, 10% WFBS or something like that I sometimes just go back to the term EE, otherwise it just gets to confusing to explain when people ask specifically what is in there.

 

[cubalaya]

sandhill preservation calls them non standard ameraucanas and since they are breed preservationists, i will call mine that too. mine have slate legs and hatched from blue eggs and i have never seen a pink egg or green legs on any of mine. they are not mutts.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

All my EE girls lay their own special shade of egg be it in the green family or the brown, which I htink is grea because then I know who is laying, who hasn't, who laid the soft shelled egg . . .no guessing! In my other pens (which I love as well), they all lay the same color, the same shape, and half the time I can't tell who's who back in the nest box. A definate advantage to owning EE's!

 

[Longhaven Hen]

This is our EE, Sage.

She laid the pretty, little, sky-blue egg in the middle.

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

What a pretty egg Sage lays!


I posted some pics a while ago of the 6 more unusual colored EE chicks I had kept for myself (out of 25 from MPC). Here's a couple pics of a couple more different colored EE chicks that I had to rehome (no room to keep them all, but sure wish I could have).

This was one of two grey ones - I thought her dark head and spotted chest were really pretty, but decided to keep only 1 grey chick.

I had originally planned to keep at least one of the two black/gold ones, but we have so many black chickens already that I decided to let them go too.

 

[TK Poultry]

LOVE EE's i have three use to have alot more but just kept my 3 favorites! Moose (cockerel) he is a sexlink color Mongoose (chipmunk pullet) and Carla (partial faverolle hen) i love them all carla has laid 3 huge brown double yolkers this year and mongoose hasnt laid yet also have a BR hen with them so i can have some awesome colored EE's

 

[Soccer Mom]

I love the grey one, Arizona. She's lovely. All of my blue and grey chicks have some gold around the neck. I've never seen one with the white chest spots like that! The black and gold one reminds me of my Zinnia. Mine are all from MPC as well.

 

[ChickenWisperer]

An EasterEgger, by most peoples definition, is a bird that has a blue blue-egg history (has Ameraucana or Araucana blood SOMEWERE), that may or may not include the following features - lays blue eggs, has muffs, has a tail, has a pea comb, and has green legs.

Really, EasterEggers are mutts - they are not bred for a specific perfection, like other breeds. Others are bred down to the shape of the bird, the color of the legs, the size of the eyes, the angle of the carriage of the tail and wings, the color eggs it lays, and so many other things. For a one real thing - colored eggs - which they dont always produce anyway. I personally really don't think you can consider a EE to be breed - they are NOT regulated by breeding like others. A EE with parentage, of say a LeghornxAraucana will look MUCH more different then say a FaverollexAmeraucana cross. Their shape will be different, their color will probably be different, the size of their muffs (and shape, too) may be different, their leg color may be different, their egg color could be different - along with so many other things, such as temperment.

If a EE is a crossed bird, which it is, then it is considered a mutt, crossbred, or etc. I don't think there is anything wrong with that at all - I completely accept the fact, and love my birds none the less.