The EE braggers thread!!!

[SunnyDawn]

My roo is anything but agressive! He's actually a little afraid of me but I can live with that.

He's not even the dominant bird, my BO Bertha has that job (and she is VERY good at it).

Here's a pic of my cockerel (for one more month), Poppy (after the seed). He is about 9 months old in this pic. It was taken about 2 months ago.

 

[Medicine Man]

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Jo, based on the angle of the photo I can't see that this is a crossed beak - it looks to me like just an overgrown upper beak, like an overbite. I had one EE with that and fixed it with my Dremel and a sanding drum.* Just a quick little bzzzz bzzzz and it's all fixed.

*because this is BYC, I expect somebody to come along and criticize me for using a Dremel on a chicken's beak...this is how we trimmed parrots' beaks in vet. hospitals.

 

[Illia]

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Cute chicks! You have a LOT of boys in there though.

I think you're right on all but #3 - Possibly a male too. I'd have to see the whole body. Sexing EE's isn't just about comb size.

 

[redfeather]

Okay... despite being so sick I feel I can barely walk I went out to the coop and let my EE and RIR chickies out of their pen and modified it to give it only a 7''x8'' opening so that they could escape into it. I was afraid they would have trouble finding the feed and water, but while I was modifying their pen they found it themselves and were happy peeping away eating and drinking, so I didn't re-set up their little feeder and waterer.

They seemed really happy! They ate and ate and ate and drank and drank and drank and peeped and preened and tore around flying at each other, and then they all went and stood at the "door" to their little pen and cuddled up together. It was so sweet. <3 In something like 2 weeks I"ll be taking their pen away from them and using it for the batch of Welsummers, BOs and GBCs that I currently have brooding in the bathroom, hehehe.

I really need to find my carmera's charging cord... I need new pictures. I just love my little chickies! <3 <3 <3

 

[phasianidae]

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Where did you get them? Several appear to have cushion combs.

 

[Breshcandra]

ChicksterJo wrote:

My crossbeak EE (7-8 weeks old)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/80295_dsc01499.jpg

So is this a roo or hen.

I have an EE that might be feathering out like this one.​

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

Woohoo! Hatching out some cute little barnyard crosses all from green and blue eggs! Daddy could be Cochin or BLR Wyandotte. So far I've got a blue feather legged one and a black feather legged one and one kind of reddish/tawny clean legged chick, and more on the way! The mystery EEs are lots of fun.

 

[farmerChef]

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Where did you get them? Several appear to have cushion combs.

They are from Atlchick.

Body pic of #3

 

[ChicksterJo]

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I guess I should have taken the pic from the other side. His/her lower beak is slowly moving to the right, and the upper beak is getting very curved. I've tried filing the upper beak a little but it did not really help. This chick is about half the size of a chick the same age.

I'd also like to know if this crossbeak's a girl or boy?

 

[phasianidae]

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Where did you get them? Several appear to have cushion combs.

They are from Atlchick.

Body pic of #3
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/72239_ee3.jpg

Interesting, Did you see pics of the parents?