The EE braggers thread!!!

[SteveH]

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Both my B/B/S Ameraucana and EE from Shclecht's were very skittish and flighty as chicks . As they've matured , say starting around 12 weeks or so , they've become calm to the point that they are under foot at times . I think it helps to run them with calmer breeds , but have read others report that their's calmed with maturity without the benefit of a calmer breeds influence so ......................

 

[Inkheart]

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Both my B/B/S Ameraucana and EE from Shclecht's were very skittish and flighty as chicks . As they've matured , say starting around 12 weeks or so , they've become calm to the point that they are under foot at times . I think it helps to run them with calmer breeds , but have read others report that their's calmed with maturity without the benefit of a calmer breeds influence so ......................

My Delawares are not calm - they are very friendly - but on the go from sun up to sundown so we will see! LOL.

 

[emjay]

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Both my B/B/S Ameraucana and EE from Shclecht's were very skittish and flighty as chicks . As they've matured , say starting around 12 weeks or so , they've become calm to the point that they are under foot at times . I think it helps to run them with calmer breeds , but have read others report that their's calmed with maturity without the benefit of a calmer breeds influence so ......................

I had pure breeds, and my EE's, I got rid of my breeding group of BLRW's and am now mainly EE's. I find them very curious, inquisitive, smart , and very pretty birds. Mine are all quite calm, not flighty at all.

and the colored eggs are a big bonus !!

 

[emjay]

I can't remember if it was discussed on this thread about leg color vs egg color. I am keeping tabs on my youngest flock to see if there is any correlation to it, or purely coincidence.

I have 12 up and coming egg laying girls. Of which 1 is a wyandotte, who is now laying. She doesn't count. The other 11 girls are EE's. I have a second one laying now. IT IS A PRETTY BLUE EGG !!

Not sure which gal laid it, but, now that they have started I will be keeping track . SHould be easy really, the 11 EE pullets all have black, slate , or slate/green legs. So, if I get some white eggs or brown will know , well, I will know. Just for fun.

These pullets all hatched beginning of August. 20 weeks old, they've started to lay, not bad. not bad.

Funny though, they have beaten my older bantam pullet, who was born in March, tsk tsk. She has yet to lay me an egg. She's going to get fired soon.

 

[Medicine Man]

There is no relation between legs and eggs. Well, there is a coincidental relationship, but genetically, it's nothing related. It's a misinterpreted coincidence and lack of familiarity with the underlying genetics that causes this myth.

 

[emjay]

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Yes, I know , this is just for hicks and giggles.

 

[Liamm_1]

I have 3 EE's in a batch of 12 6-week old chicks. One EE, started out looking like a chipmunk, but is now very white with some brown spots. (s)he has a larger body than all the others, thick legs, and the comb has turned pink before all the others. Does this indicate a cockerel or just a coincidence. They are supposedly sexed pullets from Ideal via my local feed store...

 

[dldolan]

I'd like to know the answer to that, too, Liamm_1? Could you post photos?

I also have a question for the thread: If I breed a true Auracana roo(blue or splash) to my buff columbian EE, do I get an Ameraucana or an EE? Or will it only be an AM if it meet color requirements. What about roo X blue cochin? EE? (Curiosity is an awesome thing!)

 

[phasianidae]

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You will get EE, Ameraucana is a breed which can't be made by crossing mutts.

 

[BlacksheepCardigans]

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You will get EE, Ameraucana is a breed which can't be made by crossing mutts.

Sure they can. It's pretty much a sacred tenet of chicken breeding that anything can be made of anything else if you work hard enough.

It's an Ameraucana if it fits the standard for the Ameraucana and breeds true. Period. Since there are no registrations, no closed stud book, and very few pedigrees, that's what purebred means in chickens. So if you cross Brahmas, Araucanas, Faverolles, Cornish, and Seramas (in other words, pick any five or ten breeds; I didn't pick those on purpose) for a decade and somehow come up with a bird that fits the Ameraucana standard and breeds true, it IS an Ameraucana, even if it has zero parentage that was purebred Ameraucana.

Dldolan, the first-generation cross that you're talking about would be interesting, but it wouldn't be closer to an Ameraucana than anything crossed with an EE. Araucanas and Ameraucanas are similar only in that they both lay blue/green eggs. From everything I've read they were kept as separate breeds by the indigenous people and an Ameraucana or EE isn't an Araucana cross and didn't come from Araucana stock. Araucana are smooth-faced birds with tufts (which are not feather clumps; they're actually a kind of head deformation and result in the tufted chicken having small or absent ears, among other things). Ameraucanas and EEs are muffed/bearded, which is a feather growth pattern. If you bred an Araucana to something, you'd just get a smooth-faced or perhaps small-tufted bird with a tail and whatever colors the two parents would make. It wouldn't look like an Ameraucana at all.