The EE braggers thread!!!

[speckledhen]

Monk has a sweet face!

This is Chipper. Daddy is my avatar (Delaware), mama is my blue-wheatenish-looking EE hen, June. I think his pattern is very interesting. He has a single comb and a beard. I bet he'll be a handsome young man, don't you?

 

[Morgan7782]

speckledhen, he certainly IS a handsom boy! I love the softer colors against the white as well. Is that color considered somewhat wheaten? The EE slogan should be "Variaty!" lol! If I were to have a rooster it would be an egger rooster.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, Chipper's color doesn't actually have a name, since most EE colors don't follow a specific pattern. I call his mother June "blue wheatenish" because she has colors that you'd associate somewhat with a Blue Wheaten Ameraucana rooster.

 

[Carpe DiHen]

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Can you please tell me how you know he is a boy at that age? (struggling with some EE genders on 6 weeks olds)

 

[cabot]

They are all so beautiful! Here are some updated pics of my two as well....
Bunny:

Easter:

Original names, I know.....

 

[speckledhen]

I think Chipper is male, partly because he was larger than the two chicks that hatched before him and the comb already has pink in it at four weeks old. I could just have an early maturing, chunky pullet, but I'm not holding my breath for that one.

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

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This rooster has a beard, and a few of the hens do to. My goal really has a lot more to do with the Grey junglefowl genes than it does the EE genes, but I want the end product to have beard and muff, pea comb, and lay green eggs, but also to be longtails and have fibromelanosis and have (this is the Grey part) those nice pointed shiny feathers in the breast (almost like hackle/saddle feathers.) It is coming along slowly.
I guess honestly I will eventually add the duplex comb gene that cropped out of another line of the junglefowl hybrids.

Funny you should mention those brest feathers, I was noticing them on your birds. They are not common in my flock as I don't have any of the same breeds as you, however they have cropped up in two or three of the roos in my super layer project (WL X RIR X Buff AM). They are super pretty, with Pea combs, no beards and body type closer to WL; Buff with white tail feathers. I was planning on culling them as they didn't suit my type goal, but I liked them so much I altered my goal a bit!

 

[SteveH]

Steve - I'm really liking your WLRC . . . I wish I had a roo . . . dang it!

They're leggy aren't they ? I'd prefer to own a meatier type , but the leggy , upright frame does hold some potential . PM me if you want one bad enough to pay shipping on a free roo because all but one are going to be culled this week while the weather is a little cooler than its been this summer . To me the shipping would be too high of a price , but its up to you .
The CX pullets' combs have gone bright red so today they are going to be seperated into a breeding pen with a silver and red EE cockeral ; and I'm adding a light on a timer to extend the length of days for all of them .​

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

oh man thanks! If it were earlier in the year I would have taken you up on it, but I just settled on breeding pens and do NOT want an unmated roo all winter

wish I lived closer to you though, I would love to see your projects first hand. Isn't the internet great though!

 

[luvchicks8]

Is this new chick I picked up recently an EE..I hope so I am down to one.The white chick