The EE braggers thread!!!

[Sueg4332]

oh yes this written bye a person that has raised white german shepherds, blue dobermans (when it was a big NO NO) I also have a Cremello Quarter Horse stallion that had to be registered as a breeding stock Paint. AQHA would not register him because of color. They have changed that rule too. So he is double registered APHA and AQHA. NO paint breeding at all. But use him on my paint mares, so he established himself as a paint stallion. also have a perlino stallion AQHA that was lucky enough to be born after the rule change. No problem registering him.
Oh I also have Merle chihuahuas (2)Which are registered AKC now they debating weather to register the merles. No I do not breed merle to merle.
so I guess I've always been the odd ball.
Oh and I have EEs since 1964 and when searching for new stock for my little farm I always looked for greenish legs, rose combs , and beards way back than. most of the time nice colored eggs.
I acturally have 3 ameraucana I hatched from a breeders eggs 2 blacks 1 blue, had 4 the kids shoot the pullet (darn kids.) Oh the blue roo doesnt have a beard so maybe he is a EE now. Maybe the one pullet will lay me enough eggs to have my ameraucana pen.
Hopefully picking 10 EE babies tommorrow From the feed store. they are out of Texas
I am just not a show any thing type person. I have found standards change if you live long enough. and I am sure the ameraucana assocation will add more colors.

 

[Wild Trapper]

Why not just call mixed Ameraucanas what they are, Ameraucanas. If they are some kind of standard color then call them by that color. To me standards are pretty, but boring, I like the color combinations with what we call EEs, much easier if we want to name them and remember their names. I know there is a difference in the personalities of chickens, but if they are all the same color, it's like trying to tell twins apart. Easy to confuse who is who, at least for me.

 

[lauriruth]

good analogy, suegg!

 

[babyrnlc]

Rusty's Ranch :

How funny you call Cindy "Eagle chick". Our little Zoey could almost be her twin and we call her "Hawk face"

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/26020_zoey.jpg

Pretty, we used to call her hawk chick, but when the gold started coming in, she looked like a gold eagle lol.​

 

[babyrnlc]

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Beautiful!

 

[shchinchillas]

Ours are due to ship March 30th...I can't wait. We purchased 12 pullets and 1 rooster. I'm very (not) patiently waiting...lol

 

[mopargal1972]

Hey everyone! I love seeing all the color variations of this breed! Here are some pics of my EE's.

My roos, "Hermes" (left) & "Copper" (right)

A better pic of "Copper":

Three of our hens (from left to right), "Peaches", Clarisse", "Hawkeye"

"Clarisse" & "Hawkeye"

Group pic. They don't look very happy

. It was a cold day. So glad winter is almost over

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I almost forgot to show off their eggs! (the small one in the front is a D'Uccle egg)

 

[SteveH]

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Nice EEs, and gorgeous eggs!

 

[SteveH]

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My practise, and you certainly aren't expected to agree, is that if I choose to cross varieties of Ameraucanas, or if they are off colored or produce off color to their variety, I call them EEs. [Excepting, of course, acceptable splits to improove a variety's quality, or a new color project.]
Two reasons for this:

1. Integrety: If someone is looking for true Ameraucanas, eggs or birds I sell as such should be true, and breed true, to the APA standard for a variety. They should not have to learn later that their birds, or their chicks later produced, are not showable and be told "That's either an EE, or an off-color Ameraucana not suitable for breeding.".

2. Respect: Breeders and developers of the Ameraucana breed spent many years and many dollars working with bearded and muffed Easter Eggers to seperate and develope the different color varieties....................... and then lobbied to get them accepted as a true breed eligible to show in the APA and ABA sanctioned events. One cross , say of a Wheaten on a Silver, instantly changes them back to the multi-gened, bearded and muffed, Easter Eggers they once were......................... though without the sometimes green legs.

The only reason to call those crossed varieties "Ameraucanas", that I can think of, is greed; some people figure they're worth more to sell as Ameraucana than as EE.

 

[phasianidae]

I set up my EE breeding pens today