The EE braggers thread!!!

[puredelite]

Emjay, What a nice group of hens you have there (roo too) and such a wide variety of colors! What colors of eggs are you getting out of them?

 

[Kassaundra]

Emjay, such beautiful colors and patterns!!!!

Is that rooster the father?

 

[emjay]

thankyou.

so far I'm only getting blue eggs , except from the wyandotte pullet of course.


the roo in the picture is not the father. Marbles is their daddy and he's in with the original flock.

 

[plantmgr]

Emjay, your flock looks so much like mine it's crazy! I see a twin for several of my girls in your group shot. Your rooster is totally different, though. Mine is the silver duckwing color. Love your Roo's coloring! Where did you get them?

 

[plantmgr]

forgot to say that I'm getting one pink egg and the rest greenish. (One looks pretty blue) I guess you guys can see that in my avitar. I'm not sure who lays the pink egg. I thought maybe it was my only EE with yellow legs, but I've seen my white and black Columbian girl in the nest with the pink egg twice.

 

[Medicine Man]

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Illia - you are so often an island of intelligent knowledge in a sea of misinformation.

I have just one very tiny thing to say about this quote and that is that the contamination of Quechua with production/dumpling blood occurred in S. America long ago and many (most?) of our hatchery-stock "Ameraucanas" are actually more pure than what you're likely to encounter in S. America. While it true that some hatcheries are continuing to dip into certain other breeds, they are still making the effort to backcross and maintain, more-or-less, the integrity of the "World's Fair Quechua" aka Ameraucana (name used before APA ever thought about it).

 

[Medicine Man]

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puredelite, I tink you are one of my favorite chicken breeders and sitting on possibly one of the best lines in the US of this most-underrated race. Just my opinion.

 

[Medicine Man]

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They were developed/evolved (by a combination of natural and artificial selection - it's kind of a fuzzy line with them as it's a combination of both) to withstand the colds of S. America (think Andes). This is what the beard and muffs are all about. So yes, they are in general pretty good layers through the Winter, although naturally they do have to take a break at some point.

 

[Medicine Man]

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It's not really OT at all, it's a very relevant point - if we were to turn our mixed flocks completely loose to fend for themselves, no doubt the EEs would be the ones to survive, as well as probably Penedesencas and Leghorns, but to a lesser extent because there is a difference between the savvy of the EE and the general flightiness of the others.

This also works against the EEs when we keep them in confinement however, because in confinement this nature works against their interest as they are more prone to flying over fences and getting themselves into trouble that way. Removed the boundaries and they can excel.

And naturally, when I say "EE" in this case I mean N. A. Quechua, not some mutt Quechua X Cochin or whatever like that.

 

[Medicine Man]

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Quite common. In my program, I try to breed against that (I should say I WILL...I don't have a roosty for them yet), but it is common due to introduction of production breeds, both in their "native" range and in captivity.