The EE braggers thread!!!

[GammaPoppyLilyFlutter]

I am now the proud owner of 2 EE's

Quinn

and Aspen

 

[newlyweds]

Such beautiful EE's I love them all. I just hatched out 12 EE's, such little cuties.

 

[Mamaperreca]

I believe the correct name for the chicken soap opera is "All My Chickens"

We have a funny little polish rooster who always gives it a valiant try with the ladies but he is smaller than them so they chase him away. Poor guy.

 

[Medicine Man]

I have a few photos of my NA Quechua (and also some are EEs). They are in various locations here as they are in the process of moving to more various locations for safekeeping, so please understand that I do not keep chickens inside my garage or inside cardboard boxes.

Opal is the star of the show...

Here she is in my Olive Egger Project, for lack of a proper rooster for her...

Cinnamon...

Stella is an EE. My hypothesis is that she's a B1 with some [super-secret] blood. She has no beard or muffs and is heterozygous for blue eggs, but lays the best looking blue egg...

She was named after Estelle Getty because she's a Golden Girl and her eggs are "Stellar"...

Mocha II in transit...

Pumpkin with muddy rooster tracks...

further research is needed, but I'm testing a hypothesis that there is a link between leg band color and egg color.

Pumpkin is an EE, not an NAQ - by my own subjective definition.

Pumpkin again...

oops, this one is a bit too "rooster tattered"...

I had been selling-off some stock and let the roostern ratio get too far off.
(she has no name - please write suggestions on the back of a $20 bill and mail to....

Augusta Gloop...

as a peep...

Peanut...

Opal Opal Opal!

This was the first of two occasions in which I thought I had lost Opal - see what I mean about how they get themselves into trouble? She went missing for two weeks, and I found feathers of another one who'd been eaten by dogs. Then one day she came screaming out of the weeds, squawking up a storm...(at this point it was kind of obvious why she had gone missing)...I let her into her pasture, she drank, ate, and promptly flew back out to sit on her infertile eggs. By sheer lucky coincidence, I had some eggs in the incubator and the timing was almost perfect. She sat on her eggs for four weeks and then raised some peeps for me.

 

[Mamaperreca]

Wow your hen has quite the stash of eggs there. I love her making a nest in the tall grass.

I also really love the trees inside your fence. I hope to expand our run to include things like that in the future.

 

[Cats Critters]

Quote:
Cute

I miss having babies around.

 

[Kassaundra]

MM, I love, love, love Opal. And Augusta Gloop!? really !? she is much more hawklike then her namesake. Good thing she can't see the TV or you would have to pay for that name choice!

What is your definition of differance in NAQ and EE?

I'd rather call mine quechua, so the Ameraucana people would quit calling my girls mutts.

 

[flower]

MM

Opal is a true beauty. GrrrrrrrATE research going there wit the leg band hypothesis !!!!!!!!

Stella's eggs, where are you so I can drive there and get some non-fertile eggs

shall I bring a rooster with me ? And what does NA stand for ?

 

[GammaPoppyLilyFlutter]

I love Easter Eggers! Such cute little muffs

 

[Medicine Man]

Hi Everybody! Thank you for your nice words!

flower - research is still ongoing, but so far it seems that everybody with a blue leg band lays blue eggs. I'll publish the results upon conclusion of this study. If only I could get some sort of a research grant.

NA = North America; Stella's eggs are currently fertilized by this, my million-dollar-baby, "Olive Egg Junglefowl" (in name only):







Kassaundra - heehee...my friend named Augusta Gloop for the chocolate-smeared face. As for the difference between NAQ and EE, well...it's just my own subjective opinion, but for my own purposes I reserve the NAQ title for those that have the true type and wild colors. Pumpkin just doesn't seem to have the correct color to me for a semi-naturally-evolved composite race. She's plenty beautiful, it's just that she doesn't seem as "natural" as a "real" Quechua. She and Stella can start my line of Truly-Bluly-EEs. Both of them are also quite a bit heavier than the others; less ability to fly and evade. This is where Opal excels, she is just so much more savvy than the rest. She takes to flight quickly when pursued, much more pheasant-like than any chicken I've ever seen in that manner.