The EE braggers thread!!!

[NickyPick]

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<not an expert> I got my 5 EE's from Ideal on the day of hatch and they all had yellow legs. By the end of the first week, they were getting darker and now 2 have green legs and 3 have slate legs. Maybe your chicks just haven't changed leg color yet?

 

[schellie69]

Here are my new EE's got them on the 11th at tractor supply

Any ideas on color they have such puffy cheeks.

 

[buckabucka]

Thank you, - I think you are right. Studying him later today, I could see a slight tinge on the legs, so maybe they will gradually turn slate.
This is my first hatch, and I've never seen a chick looking so tiny and fragile!

 

[flower]

Many posts have questioned the leg color, both standard of perfection and egg color related to egg color. There is no relation between leg color and the color of the eggs.

 

[buckabucka]

Thanks for the info!

 

[phasianidae]

Does anyone know if it is common for white EEs to be recessive white? Here is my EE rooster which was thought to have one copy of dominant white, however I recently hatched 10 chicks from him and none appear to have any white.

Here is his EE mother

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

I have 4 Easter Egger eggs due next Thursday, I'm really excited about it!

I'm hopeing to either start a breeding flock of EE's, or start some F1 Olive Eggers.

 

[SteveH]

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[SteveH]

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[SteveH]

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If that's his mother, what rooster did you have that would hang that large comb and wattles on him? Knowing the breed of his sire might help determine what he's carrying. There are at least three whites; recessive, dominate, and silver.................... plus a another thought to exist by some but still unproven. He may carry one copy for recessive, but he's surely not pure for recessive or dominate IMO and possibly no dominate at all. With the corn/sun yellow showing in the one pic, not pure for silver either. The thing making it even more difficult is that all three can exist in the same bird, whether pure for one or more or not pure for any.