The EE braggers thread!!!

[Whimsy]

Hello...I am sure glad I found this thread. I know I could look up all this, but tomorrow I may be able to get some EE chicks and I have a few questions.

The short amount of reading I have done, not all EE hens lay colored eggs?
Does breeding a EE roo to another kind of hens produce offsprings that will lay colored eggs?

Thanks and looking to getting to know you all

 

[Wild Trapper]

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All eggs are colored in a sense. - off spring may or may not lay blue eggs, if that is what you are wondering. Too many factor enter into the soup.

 

[flower]

Crash0330 for my personal choice I will always choose a breed which has anything but a single comb, with the exception of NN and Welsummer. And I would always choose a rooster with any comb but a single comb. If I cross an Ameraucan with a NN, the rooster would be the Ameraucana due to the pea comb. I like turkens/NN and had a pair along while back. The rooster was gorgeous and had a very layed back personality as did the hen and they are know to be very hardy and good dual purpose birds. The eggs are big and plentiful. In fact I am planning on making that cross down the line. I do have an EE hen that was from a red sex link hen mated with a hugh EE rooster and she makes large green eggs daily. Sex link birds are great production birds with good personalities.

My only experience with a leghorn was a bantam and he was nasty and didn't last. Some folks like leghorns but there are too many other breeds that I know and like, such as the NN and Wyandotte.

 

[crash0330]

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Why do you not prefer a cross with a single combed bird?

 

[crash0330]

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The blue egg gene is dominant, so you will most likely end up with hens laying blue or green eggs, but theres also a slight chance that they will lay brown.
I believe the blue egg gene is closly related to the pea comb on EEs so the off spring with single combs will most likely lay brown eggs.

 

[Whimsy]

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The blue egg gene is dominant, so you will most likely end up with hens laying blue or green eggs, but theres also a slight chance that they will lay brown.
I believe the blue egg gene is closly related to the pea comb on EEs so the off spring with single combs will most likely lay brown eggs.

Thanks these birds all have a pea comb.....I just didn't want to jump into getting them. I am going to get some Marans and she also has EE's. I know it is hard to sex at an early age with a pea comb and I am not sure I would want a Roo.

One of my questions if I got a roo out of the bunch and breed him to wyndottes, rocks and cochins would I then have offsprings that would lay colored eggs or not?

I want to make sure. I would rather pay more for sure pullets.

 

[SteveH]

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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.

Are you sure you didn't bring home a coyote?

 

[crash0330]

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The blue egg gene is dominant, so you will most likely end up with hens laying blue or green eggs, but theres also a slight chance that they will lay brown.
I believe the blue egg gene is closly related to the pea comb on EEs so the off spring with single combs will most likely lay brown eggs.

Thanks these birds all have a pea comb.....I just didn't want to jump into getting them. I am going to get some Marans and she also has EE's. I know it is hard to sex at an early age with a pea comb and I am not sure I would want a Roo.

One of my questions if I got a roo out of the bunch and breed him to wyndottes, rocks and cochins would I then have offsprings that would lay colored eggs or not?

I want to make sure. I would rather pay more for sure pullets.

Well if you want all pullets, you might be better of visiting your feed store as they get their EEs from hatcheries as sexed pullets and altho every once in a while a roo might snuck in, its for the most part sure that you will get pullets. But thats just for the EE's as I doubt that feed stores have any Marans, and even if they do, they usually don't lay that dark of an egg.

 

[SteveH]

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Its impossible to know unless a test breeding has confirmed that the male EE carries the blue egg gene. If it carries two copies, all his female chicks will lay blue or green; one copy produces 50%; and of course he can't produce blue eggers out of non-blue eggers if he doesn't carry the gene himself [and some don't].

 

[crash0330]

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Its impossible to know unless a test breeding has confirmed that the male EE carries the blue egg gene. If it carries two copies, all his female chicks will lay blue or green; one copy produces 50%; and of course he can't produce blue eggers out of non-blue eggers if he doesn't carry the gene himself [and some don't].

Wow thanks a lot for the information Steve, So is it always more safe to cross EE hens that lay green or blue to other brown egg laying breeds for example, since we do know that they carry the blue egg gene?