The EE braggers thread!!!

[emjay]

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Hi Katy. I live on Vancouver Island, Canada.

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

Just took a few pics of some of my Easter Eggers.

This 14 week old pullet is the product of a Blue Wheaten Ameraucana rooster and a Splash Ameraucana hen - my first clean-faced Easter Egger (no muffs or beard):

This 14 week old EE pullet is the product of a Blue Wheaten Ameraucana rooster and a Blue Ameraucana hen:

This is one of my favorite EEs - she came from My Pet Chicken last October.

The one in the middle - another MPC Easter Egger:

 

[Happy Chooks]

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They area all beautiful, but I love the coloring on the first one!

 

[Morgan7782]

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Excuse my ignorance heh, I am new.. But if you have an Ameraucana (true?) hen and rooster breed, won't you get an Ameraucana? Not an EE? Any help = good

P.S. BEAUTIFUL pictures!! I can't decide whether to get another EE or a BO!

lol but all these beautiful pictures are making me lean toward EE's.. All I care is my flock looks different, and I am certain I can find a different color/pattern then my current EE Munk has.

How many eggs a week do you guys get from your EE's?

Thanks again

 

[Happy Chooks]

Morgan......Technically it's pure Ameraucana, but since it's a non standard color, it's referred to as an EE.

ETA: I get 5-6 eggs a week from my EE, and she was one of my best layers in winter.

 

[Morgan7782]

Thanks for clearing that up!

Chicken genetics are dern interesting, I can't wait until I can have a roo then I will look into a few good projects. Great to hear about that laying rate. I have one EE, and she is so sweet! Very friendly, and I just think I may go ahead and get another EE rather then the BO.

I live in hot summers and I think having a SLW and a BO in a just right size coop (no more then 4 ft per bird in coop) would be asking for some heat issues. So I went back to a bit of a lighter feathered bird, like the RIR, or EE. All I care is my flock has vast differences in color, and EE's seem to be vast range of colors.

Thanks all for the info

whatever I decide I will definately be posting pictures!

 

[Happy Chooks]

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I agree, chicken genetics are interesting. (and complicated) I'm going to be breeding some of my welsummers and olive eggers as soon as I finish my next coop. I can't wait to "play" with them.

I'm near Auburn, and I had the following breeds last summer, and they did fine in our heat: BO, BR, light brahma, sicilian buttercup, RIR, EE. I've since added welsummers, pure ameraucana's, BCM's, silver penciled rocks and splash orps.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

emjay - lol I don't know why I thought you were a kid, I see now on your signature that you are a mother of two, silly me! well to bad you are soooo far away, else I would take that blue roo off your hands for you, I have been looking for one

arizona - you MPC EE are some of the nicest colored that I have seen!, thanks for sharing; now we know where to send people when they ask for a hatchery reccomend!
Morgan - my EE's are almost all egg a day layers, and my oldest hen laid an egg a day through her 6th year. She 7 this year and has become sporadic . . . but heck what other breed will give you an egg a day for 6 years . . . and have a fuzzy face???

 

[phoebeq]

I just got my first ever EE in

I ordered from Cackle. I also got some Light Brahmas. Everything in the pic below that isn't light yellow is an EE. I think I got a pretty good mix...my question is, what color is the one with the orange and blue head going to be? She is just adorable!

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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Yes, exactly, and even if they hatch out as a standard color, like my blue, they wouldn't breed true, so they now fall under the name Easter Egger instead of Ameraucana.

I think most of the hatchery Ameraucanas/Araucanas/Americanas are basically just non-standard Ameraucanas too (from way back) - they're not bred to keep any specific color, which means they can't be shown, but they still have the same body types, muffs, beards, combs, etc. I've heard that EEs can be clean-faced, but even pure Ameraucanas can hatch that way too (mine was from 2 totally pure Ameraucanas). Pure Ameraucanas are usually bred more consistently and carefully - owners culling the least favorable ones (clean-faced, bad color, type, etc) to get show birds and good breeding stock, while Easter Eggers are mostly enjoyed for their variety in color, personality, and eggs. I'm not saying we don't enjoy the color, personality, and eggs from purebred Ameraucanas too, but purebred Ameracuanas have to have a higher standard to be held because of breeding and showing. I like all of mine - both standard and non-standard, but I really love the variety with the EEs, expecially for pets, because we can name them and tell them apart. I can't tell my Wheaten Ameraucana pullets apart - they look identical to each other.

Six of my MPC EEs lay just as blue and egg as the Ameraucanas - a blue/green mint color - and I can't tell which breed laid the egg unless I see the hen leaving the nest. A couple of my EEs do lay a more olive green egg and 1of them is laying a pinkish or very light brown egg.