The EE braggers thread!!!

[sharol]

I got one EE with my chick order from MPC last summer, and she is beautiful:

Lily lays lovely blue green eggs at the rate of 5 or 6 a week.

So today when I was in our local Orschlen's, they had EE's. I bought 4. The blonde in front on the left is a Buff Orpington, but the other 4 are EE's. Anybody want to guess how they will turn out? I will get better pictures when they recover from the trip, but This one pretty much shows them. The little yellow one on the right has just a touch of red on her head.

 

[Bravo]

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She is stunning!! I love white EE's! What color egg does she lay?

 

[sharol]

Greenish/bluish

Is pretty accurate. Hers is the 5th from the left.

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She is stunning!! I love white EE's! What color egg does she lay?

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Pretty Eggs!

Love the "egg rack!"
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She is stunning!! I love white EE's! What color egg does she lay?

 

[Kassaundra]

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She is stunning!! I love white EE's! What color egg does she lay?


Which one lays the speckeled egg?

 

[sharol]

It is from my Welsumer, Lisbeth. Usually her eggs are more the darker color with a few speckles, but that one was especially speckley (is that a word?)

The pink one is from a GLW and the white one from a quirky Campine. The brown egg is from my most productive layer, a Delaware. Angel (the Del) laid 26 eggs in February.

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Which one lays the speckeled egg?

 

[sharol]

It is an Egg Skelter. I got it from England. I think there are a couple of places they are available. If you search the forum for that phrase, someone got one a bit cheaper than I did. I ordered it from the guy who makes them. http://www.egg-skelter.co.uk/

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

Pretty Eggs!

Love the "egg rack!"
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[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Wow, too cool!!

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[StormyMoon]

I bought 15 ee chicks and I have a question. Is it normal for them to be so mean and flighty or is this because I did not hand raise them? I have had to divide them up they were plucking each others feathers down to the skin I had to put some BC on some of them cause of this. But I have found them to be a lot meaner towards each other than my own hatchlings that I have hatched out my self. I got them when they was around 3 weeks old. They are now about 5 weeks old. 6 of the 15 are pullet the rest are roos.

They are living with 4 ducks at the moment till the ducks are big enough to be placed with the adult ducks.
I just don't understand why they are so aggressive I have never experienced this type of behavior before.
I only have 1 EE rooster, and 3 EE hens I thought this would be a good way to add a variety of color to my flock.

The Other EE Roos will be going to new homes soon cause I have no use for them.

 

[Pele]

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It's called follow the rules of the colors EE's commonly come in. I've yet to ever see a hatchery offer a bunch of EEs that cannot be sexed by color, except of course the occasional whites now and then.


Velvet Hairpiece - Those are too young to tell. If anything I peg both girls, but by color sexing I mean once they're feathered out. As a chick, only gold duckwings are easily sexed by down color.



As to the question on sexing by the pea comb - Look for the most defined, and of course, the reddest and largest. (which isn't always the case) The best way to judge boy vs girl is that the boys will get a definite three rows earlier than the girls. But of course with the single combs that go around hatchery EE's it is sometimes hard to judge.

Yes, Illia, I know what "it's called" and as I previously noted, I think it is unreliable and frankly, often wrong. As I wrote before, I've read your other posts with your gender guesses based on color, and have found them to be sometimes incorrect. I have EE hens in many of the colors and patterns you have deemd "roo only"...ahem...so perhaps *you've* never seen a hatchery offer a bunch of EEs that cannot be sexed by color, but indeed *I* have. There really wasn't any need for your rudeness, either.

Noooooooooooooooooooo! *running dive to take the bullet for Illia*

Phew! I'd hate to see my favorite EE expert have to take that one! By the way Illia, thank you so so so much again for sexing my baby EE. She's developing exactly the colors you predicted, and she'll be gorgeous! I'm just on pins and needles now over what color her eggs will be.

I'll post a pic of her to this thread when she looks less like a disgruntled crazy-feathered zombie. Ah the teen years.