The EE braggers thread!!!

[emjay]

well, I plan on setting 41 EE eggs in my incubator today. I'm a first timer using the incubator, I guess we shall soon see if the new roo is fertile or not , I've been looking at the eggs as I've been cooking them, they seem fertile, not as obvious as eggs from the girls with marbles, so we shall find out.
My youngest roo is looking for a new home, and I'm hoping if some of these eggs hatch I get a blue roo. I am still kicking myself for not keeping my blue roo from last spring.

I hope it goes okay for the first go.

 

[jennifersmith326]

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Not actually my first EE, just my first out of these chickens. It seems like it is taking forever to get something out of them. I am hoping I have some more soon.

 

[Kassaundra]

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I have always found the "FRYING PAN" talk is so much more effective!

I works every time.

I did tell them that they would be put in seperate pens until they decided to lay eggs. So maybe that did the trick. The egg is so pretty. I decided to keep it so I could look at it.

I blew out my first egg so I could keep it.

 

[Wild Trapper]

Just plugged my Hova-Bator in today, gonna test some eggs to see they are fertile. What is the rule of thumb for telling if something is growing inside? I will be putting only four eggs in that I can sacrifice to check to see if my Araucana roo is any good. I'm trying to cross him with my EE hens eggs. I don't have a candler, one on order, but can I use a high intensity flashlight?

I'll be sharing incubator space with my DIL as she wants to incubate some Jersey Black Giants eggs and I only want some of my EEs eggs and maybe a few others crosses. Trying to increase my flock size again, I know "Chicken Math"

 

[jenesis536]

I have a question on sexing EE's.... I have one 5 mo old girl and love her so much I got 4 more babies. They are 6 weeks old now, and I am trying to figure out if I have any roos. 3 are very similar looking - brown/golden/black... some different coloration around their heads, and hardly any combs to speak of and no wattles. The 4th one is all creamy white with black markings all over... beautiful coloring... when it was a chick it had the biggest poofiest head in the bin and was so cute I had to grab it. But - it also has a comb that keeps getting bigger and wider. Some say EE's are hard to sex by comb development, so I thought I would ask the EE "Pros" here on your opinions.

I can post photos later but I'm at work now.

What do you all think?

 

[Kassaundra]

Photos will help, and I don't have alot of experience just w/ my one and only group of chicks, but my boy's tail feathers were SIGNIFICANTLY later in developing then all the girls. As little chicks I wondered if he was "rumpless" b/c of the lack of tail feathers. Don't know if that is a standard thing or just mine.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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Lo ciento! I'm so sorry puredelight! Don't know why I assumed the opposite.

Yes retirement is looming and we finally had to admit we were not prepared. When we were young we thought for sure we would have a few million in savings by now.

Ah the ignorance of youth. I have to admit going someplace where everyone has chickens and never having to worry that the city will show up at my door to take them, because a neighbor complained, is a huge priority for us.

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Sounds like heaven! One of my hens got over the fence one day and the neighbor looked at me like I was the rudest person ever for letting her get over the fence (the bush she climbed up on to hop over has since been taken down). Of course the chicken couldn't choose any of my neighbors that have been extremely supportive of my flock, she had to choose the only neighbor that is not very friendly!

Here in Reno we are allowed as many chickens as we want (well you have to have a special waste disposal system if you get 10,000 or more, lol) but they have to be kept on your property and if a neighbor decides to complain, for any reason, they can just show up and take them.

I currently have 43 chickens, including 2 roos, and am getting ready to set more eggs in the bator this weekend.

I just can't ever seem to get enough! When we move I want a few hundred! DH is now so crazy about the chickens that he is all for it!!! I haven't told him that I've been secretly giving him post hypnotic suggestions in his sleep to make him as chicken crazy as I am.

He will be a busy camper building all the coops and pens for our huge flock!

Happy hatching to all my fellow hatch-a-holics out there!

 

[jennifersmith326]

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Good luck

 

[jennifersmith326]

I know this is a little off topic but, I like yall so I wanted to share...... I just won 12+ French Black Copper Marans eggs for $25.00 from the Bev Davis line. OMG, I am so excited. I have been wanting some of these for what seems like FOREVER!!!!!

 

[SunnyDawn]

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That's what I'm setting this weekend. EEs and FBCMs. CONGRATS!!!