The EE braggers thread!!!

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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.

muffs/beard are not related to the blue egg gene, they are a coincidental trait of the Quechua and thus the EE and thus the bigger mutt, Ameraucana. the reason they show up is that they are dominant too.

Yikes now I must say that I was quoting pea comb and slate legs from the Ameraucana thread. And since I now understand that a chicken can carry the blue egg gene and the brown egg gene simultaneously (and I have one of those and her eggs are a dark sage color) I am better informed. Oh I have so much to learn.

 

[Kassaundra]

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hahaha, yes but you know it's true!

EE X Other Stuff + selective breeding = Ameraucana.

Didn't say it wasn't true just your playing w/ fire saying it out loud!!!!!

By typing this response I will be in the line of fire too

I look at chickens as good clean fun and smile when people get all uptight about it. (evil grin)

 

[cackleberrylinda]

If I wanted to have hatch a hen that would lay extra big eggs frequently, like a leghorn does, and have them be bluish, like EEs, would I need the roo to be the leghorn? or the hen be the leghorn? which trait does the roo dominate in? or is it a pig in a poke?
Thanks

 

[draye]

Why would you want to mix Leghorn in with them? This would most likely make them flighty, and EE's for the most part are fairly tame. They, most of them anyway lay pretty good without mixing anything at all with them. I would get my EE's and put in a EE roo to go with them.

 

[cackleberrylinda]

good point. thank you. I guess i just had fantasies of big blue eggs. but i do love the pleasant nature of EEs. and their little chirpy talk. big is not always better...

 

[vegaschick]

A friend of mine had an EE roo crossed with a Leghorn hen. The chicks were quite beautiful. Oddly enough there were six chicks, 3 girls, 3 boys. All girls had pea combs and green legs, all boys had straight combs (I think) and yellow legs. They all looked kind of like a splash color ... predominately white with gray feathers here and there. They were the sweetest, friendliest little birds. On our first visit, one little pullet shocked me to death by jumping up on my shoulder! I think she laid a cream colored egg though. I believe the roo didn't pass on the blue gene to them. I have also heard that the Leghorns egg genes tend to white out or whitewash other colors. *shrug* They sure were pretty and friendly though!!!

 

[plantmgr]

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None of mine are laying yet, so I don't know this from experience, but I have read you can put food coloring on their vent. Avoid the hot colors (red, yellow, orange) so they don't pick. If you just did blue and green, and wait a couple of days between dye jobs you could get them all eventually.

That sounds like an interesting idea, except for having to touch their vent! ICK! I don't know if I'm that desperate yet.

Maybe I could con one of my kids into it!

 

[phasianidae]

Heres my EE rooster, his mother is a white EE and his father a BO:

and here's his mother:

 

[Kassaundra]

Here are some pics I took today of my EE, they are 13 weeks old now. Extemely friendly, it was hard getting pics b/c they kept wanting to sit on me.

She was shaking when I took the pic, made this cool blur.

Ferra O, looks mean here but she is a sweety.

Yeti, a close up. She and Yeta are totally white.

Close up of one of the girls.

Group shot of several, the blur in the middle is Sky fire, running as usual.

Oreo, my only boy. He has been totally black and white, but recently has started "rusting". He also loves having his pic taken.

I know it is blurry, but I liked this shot.

Yeta, the other white one, she is more friendly then Yeti.

One of the pretty girls.

Eating as always.

Another group shot

Chantilly, I love her coloring, but she is my only clean faced girl.

 

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Kassaundra very pretty flock and classy pictures of them. I have a Chantilly colored girl with muffs and beard. She is an Olive Egger. The brown egg gene is light brown, so the eggs look more like a golden sage. Her name is Amber and I hatcher her from my own birds and sold her five siblings. Also I just bought a bantam who looks like Chantilly with facial feather but she lays a cream colored egg. Advertised as an Ameraucana I figured that she might be a EE because she has a straight comb. If I can breed her to a rooster with a pea comb, she might lay blue eggs.

About the blue gene, because Amber's father was the blue gene carrier I want to develop my EE from a rooster with the blue gene over my two Wellsummers and see what I can come up with. I know both genders will carry the blue gene, but as far as breeding, the hens seem to have predominate looks like the father and the cocks favor the mother. At least that what I have noticed with my limited experience.