The EE braggers thread!!!

[operator16]

I love this picture.

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[megcpat]

Here's Dixie - isn't she something? I grabbed her on a total whim out of the "Araucana" bin at the local feed store because I had never seen chicks that color and I was crazy curious to see what they would grow into. I love her coloring! She has quite a bit of blue on the back of her head and her muff and beard is lavender.

 

[sloallie10]

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what did she look like as a chick?

 

[gootziecat]

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Elegant lady!

 

[megcpat]

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Oh yeah - good question - she was yellow with little blue racing stripes.

 

[Carpe DiHen]

Has anybody seen an EE chick this color? Look how puffy her head is! Looks like a little teddy bear (but she better be a she!):

Her name is Sundae cause she looks like butterscotch topping.

 

[haTHOR]

my wonderful EE cockerel Ronald at 5 weeks and 6 wks.

i have a couple questions. these two are at least half siblings--got them from donnie here on byc. the one on the left is ronald, above...on the right, i swear this one is a roo too, but why does he have no tail?

these two girls are twin sisters (again, from donnie--beautiful birds!), but one has a pea comb, one a single comb (in the last two pics). i understand pea comb and the blue green egg gene are correlated at around 94%, so am i correct in thinking that the one with a single comb is almost definitely not going to produce a blue green egg?

 

[megcpat]

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Hmmm, my guess would be your roo has got some Araucana blood in him - thus the lack of a tail. Cool.

 

[megcpat]

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Beautiful birds. I love the blue beard on that one hen of yours.

 

[emvickrey]

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If you get any chicks with messed up toes like that just boot them for a few days and it will straighten. I've done this several times and always end up with normal toes. I use paper first aid tape. A little piece on top and one on bottom of just where the toes connect all the way to the nails.