The EE braggers thread!!!

[Paisaneaux]

Hah! I*'m so new to this, that I searched for "Silver Suckwing Hen" after reading your reply.

Thanks! That's great to know.

 

[crash0330]

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I'm also learning a lot here this is a great site stick around and you'll learn so much about this amaizing animals.
This is the silver duckwing color on a hen on top and on bottom is the male counterpart, this are not my pictures they are from feathersite.com.

 

[crash0330]

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Thats a hen right there, I believe she's got the Silver Suckwing Hen pattern. Roosters usually dont come colored like that.
How old are they?

I'm not sure. I bought them just over a week ago, and they had very pale pinkish faces. The one with the larger comb had a very small comb. I've marveled at the growth of it over such a short period.
The lady I bought them from claims that at least one of their siblings is laying now.

Their combs get redder and bigger is such a small period of time when they are getting ready to lay soon you'll find your first egg.

 

[redfeather]

haha, well, my little chickies are doing okay now-- The fence is more of a deterrant than an actual fence at this point... in a week they won't be able to fit through. Right now, however, they've learned there's no reason to go through the bars... the heat, water and food is all in, and there's only coldness and giant monster chickens on the outside!!

 

[Paisaneaux]

I'm looking forward to that!
I just called her, and she told me that these were born around August/September, and that she made a mistake before...those were pinkish Dominique eggs that she found.

 

[flower]

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I'm so glad I dont have dogs in my yard, just one less thing I have to worry about when it comes to let my little chicks out for the first time. Altho I do have to worry that they might not get accepted and they might force the chicks to jump the wall to the neightbors house and become the neightbors dog meal!!!
I've lost like 6 chickens like that to my neightbors dog. Sadly I lost my only EE Rooster.
I'll be looking for a nice EE rooster soon. Anybody out there in southern California has one avaliable or will have one in the next coming months?

Well it is to late to go back since I have had the dog for about 10 months. She is a quite young german shepherd who was found wandering in the desert and afraid of everything and still wary of anything or any person that she is unfamiliar with.

My chicks are only three weeks old but as soon as I know which are males, they are yours ! You might need to come to RC to get them.

 

[crash0330]

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I'm so glad I dont have dogs in my yard, just one less thing I have to worry about when it comes to let my little chicks out for the first time. Altho I do have to worry that they might not get accepted and they might force the chicks to jump the wall to the neightbors house and become the neightbors dog meal!!!
I've lost like 6 chickens like that to my neightbors dog. Sadly I lost my only EE Rooster.
I'll be looking for a nice EE rooster soon. Anybody out there in southern California has one avaliable or will have one in the next coming months?

Well it is to late to go back since I have had the dog for about 10 months. She is a quite young german shepherd who was found wandering in the desert and afraid of everything and still wary of anything or any person that she is unfamiliar with.

My chicks are only three weeks old but as soon as I know which are males, they are yours ! You might need to come to RC to get them.

Oh you did a good thing picking her up, dogs are great I like them a lot too, but to me it was either the chickens or the dog so i went with the chickens!

Thanks I'll kep that in mind, altho I'm kind of puzzled, as I wanna start a breeding program and try to produce a more proliferic EE, I'm thinking Leghorn blood would be a good way to go, but I don't know whats more effective if to cross my EE hens to a Leghorn Rooster or cross a EE rooster to some Leghorn hens.
What you guys think?

 

[crash0330]

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There you go they will start laying pretty soon, another sign of them getting ready to lay is if they are squatting, meaning if you try to grab them they will squat for you.

 

[Illia]

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I'm also learning a lot here this is a great site stick around and you'll learn so much about this amaizing animals.
This is the silver duckwing color on a hen on top and on bottom is the male counterpart, this are not my pictures they are from feathersite.com.
http://feathersite.com/Poultry/Games/AmerGameBantams/NicholsonGoldenDWP.JPEG
http://feathersite.com/Poultry/Games/AmerGameBantams/NicholsonGoldenDWCkl.JPEG

This is where a lot of people confuse Silver Duckwing color and think their EE roosters are Silver Ameraucanas.

That male shown is a golden duckwing. A true Silver Duckwing male has NO red or gold on him, and looks like this -

Illustration by Katherine Plumer

 

[crash0330]

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I'm also learning a lot here this is a great site stick around and you'll learn so much about this amaizing animals.
This is the silver duckwing color on a hen on top and on bottom is the male counterpart, this are not my pictures they are from feathersite.com.
http://feathersite.com/Poultry/Games/AmerGameBantams/NicholsonGoldenDWP.JPEG
http://feathersite.com/Poultry/Games/AmerGameBantams/NicholsonGoldenDWCkl.JPEG

This is where a lot of people confuse Silver Duckwing color and think their EE roosters are Silver Ameraucanas.

That male shown is a golden duckwing. A true Silver Duckwing male has NO red or gold on him, and looks like this -

http://www.katherineplumer.com/images/poultry/KPlumerSilverDWOEGB.jpg

Illustration by Katherine Plumer

Thanks a lot for correcting me you are right.