The EE braggers thread!!!

[Kassaundra]

Mine are only 10 wks old so no idea right now what color mine will lay. They are hatchery from Meyer, and on other threads have read the colored egg gene is tied to the comb type gene. Pea combs have over 95% chance of being colored (some version of blue or green) and single combed hens over 95% chance of being brown egg layers. Based on those numbers almost all of my girls (and my one and only

boy ) have pea combs, only have about 4 that have single combs. And one that is clean faced

but only one so that is good. She is one of the ones w/ unique coloring. The majority are various versions of quail coloring (dark, light, black beard, grey beard) one that is quailish w/ smokey grey (blueish) may not go back to quechua but I think she is gorgeous

. Two whites, and an apricot and white mix (the clean faced one) the boy is black and white, but just now started getting "rusty spots"

 

[PepsNick]

Guess what I (and some very nice and helpful BYC members, of course

) figured out? My EE Zucchini is a bantam! Are bantam EE's allowed?

 

[PepsNick]

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Try checking what color their ear lobes and legs are.

 

[Illia]

Leg color says nothing about egg color.

 

[Medicine Man]

What color is a Penedesencas earlobes? And a Leghorns?

 

[Medicine Man]

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most certainly

 

[PepsNick]

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It actually does.

 

[Medicine Man]

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It actually does.

No, it only rhymes. Nothing further.

 

[emjay]

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It actually does.

interesting topic , leg color.

In my case, so far, all my slate colored legged girls are laying blue eggs. so far, I have 5 girls laying with slate legs, all with blue eggs.
I have 11 girls who will be laying in about a month or so, (as are still too young) but these 11 youngins' have slate legs. So should be interesting to see how many of them are blue egg layers.
I do also have a partridge color hen with a beard and comb, with yellow legs, who lays a blue egg. so it's interesting to know for sure

 

[melloladies]

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I suspect mine is too... how did you (and the helpful BYC'ers) deduce this fact?