The EE braggers thread!!!

[phasianidae]

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Hi, I'm from Duluth and thinking about EEs. May I ask, do you heat your coup? and generally how do the EEs fair in the 10 to 20 below weather?

No, I dont heat my coop but my EEs take the weather the best of any chickens I have and do just fine. I will keep breeding for smaller combs to eliminate frostbite.

 

[SteveH]

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Hi, I'm from Duluth and thinking about EEs. May I ask, do you heat your coup? and generally how do the EEs fair in the 10 to 20 below weather?

Most EE and Ameraucana [ in my experience ] have tight pea combs, unless crossed with a larger combed breed . While winter is not as severe here , in this part of IL we usually have several days below zero . None of my EE , Ameraucana , and Cornish have suffered frostbite in a partially open faced coop at 10 to 15 below . Even the Speckled Sussex pullets , with relatively short single combs , have froze a few comb tips this winter ; my only single combed cockeral , a Cornish X Rock hybrid meatie , has suffered the worse damage .

 

[Kenshan1]

I finally got my green eggs, its really light colored but atleast it isn't brown lol. I was dealing with a sick tummy 6yr daughter & I wasn't feeling my best either yesterday so this made my day. Made me forget about feeling yucky for a while. So my 2 EE's are about 7months.

Shannon

 

[1 Bad Rotti]

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Congratulations, I got my first EE egg today as well. Mine layed a beautiful blue egg. Pretty good luck, I just bought her Sunday and she laid me a large blue egg today

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

I posted this on the Autosexing EE thread, but I wanted to try to track down some of the folks that have created barred EE's, both the olive eggers and the blue/green egg layers, and find out what method they found most effective for getting consistently barred birds out of a hatch.

My small backyard "keep me busy while I wait for more room to get into a serious breeding project" flock is shaping up to be a pair of Cree line wheaten Ameraucanas, two Russian Orloff pullets from my previous flock (yay!) and a barred AmeraucanaxProduction Black (barred Leghorn) project hen.

I am interested in finding out how to use that crossbred hen and the wheaten roo to make barred, puffy-faced, pea-combed blue egg layers that breed true.

Can I use the wheaten roo to get clean barred black offspring, or would I need to track down a black roo to prevent what I notice many call "crele" but is just brown barring.

The other option would be to follow the autosexing chart that has been passed around as the "recipe" for Cream Legbars...but, again, I'm not a huge fan of the brown barring.

Any suggestions?

 

[SteveH]

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You might contact Jean [ posts as Pips And Peeps here at BYC ] about buying eggs from her White Ameraucana . I'm not sure if she would or could ship to Alaska , but I remember her stateing that her whites carry the barring gene . Crossed on your barred EE , the chicks should give you a jump start towards breeding some pure for that color and pattern .

 

[bigspringshatchery]

This is my girl. She finally laid Sunday at around 30 weeks but worth the wait. I thought EE but now ppl are saying oe so not really sure.

Here are her eggs

 

[SteveH]

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OE designates an EE that lays olive green eggs .

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

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Hard to tell from how they 'look' but, if you got them from the Bothel Feed Store, I can tell you mine lays a greyish green egg.

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

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Yay! I just read through the thread after not checking it for a few weeks. Also just noticed that I didn't read your post closely enough to see where your uncle got them. If he's from here, most people order from Privett as it has been the closest big hatchery to us. But there is a guy starting a hatchery in E. WA.