The EE braggers thread!!!

[Chick Charm]

You what is really cool about EE's. Green and blue eggs. That's really cool.

 

[draye]

Okay today I was playing around with the chicken color calculator, and trying to figure out my EE hens mixed with my EE roo. I know I can't get it perfect but approximate.

I need to know about what to put in for these hens:


www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/22798_flock_picture.jpg

These are not my chickens butmine look sorta like them. Thanks to kansaseq, I am using this picture with permission.

The hen on the left hand side is one and the other is about dead center.

I'm thinking maybe some kind of laced gold but need to change some of the locus (is I get that right).

If there is anyone out there that can help me I sure would appreciate it. Thanks.

Again a big thank you to kansaseq for the permission to use this photo.

 

[coturnix2044]

well It's probably kind of early (set last sunday) but I see development in all 5 of Mrs.Cluckers and Ford's eggs!

 

[SteveH]

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I just call it wild type partridge . Nothing on the calculator will probably be accurate for it , but try partridge or multi-laced partridge and it may be close .

 

[cubalaya]

the hen on the left in front of the roo is how a lot of mine turn out. love that color.

 

[plantmgr]

does anyone know which color EE lays a "pink" egg? Not all of my EEs are laying yet, but everyone so far has had shades of mint green. That brings me to another question- does the color of the bird indicate the egg color at all (in EEs)? or is it just something in the genes? I just thought it might be nice to have at least one that wasn't green, for variety sake.

 

[IdealisticRoo]

My E.E. are all a very similar color, but I get 6 different colors of eggs. Olive green, 3 other shades of blue-green, a baby blue and a pink one.

The pink egg comes out of the thinnest girl who is the only one with pink (leaning towards white, certainly not red) earlobes. She also has a "floppier" pea comb.

E.E. are so fascinating, very mixed birds, that all look and act similarly!

 

[cubalaya]

mine lay blue or green, never pink or brown.

 

[flower]

It is my belief that external appearance is a very limited way to determine the egg color. Most likely a rooster with a pea comb and slate legs will carry the blue egg gene. From what I have read here and seen the color of the eggs is passed down through the hens genetics so unless you have done strict research, "It's a box of chocolates."

 

[BlacksheepCardigans]

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Pea comb is linked to blue egg/green egg; they're right beside each other on the chromosome and are very likely to be inherited together. I can't find that muffs/beard has been researched enough but based on how reliably it predicts blue/green egg when one parent is an Araucana or EE I would guess it's similar. They tend to be inherited like (beardeggcomb) or (nobeardeggcomb) and not as three separate qualities. It's not 100% but it's shockingly close.