The EE braggers thread!!!

[ChestnutRidge]

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Beautiful bird! I think I have her twin, only mine is a roo! I was so hoping it would be a pullet.

 

[phasianidae]

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Beautiful bird! I think I have her twin, only mine is a roo! I was so hoping it would be a pullet.
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[MarinMama]

I have some 6 week bantam easter eggers.

here are the obvious roos. their combs are bigger and red and the beige one crowed. We have suspected these 2 were roos from week 2 because they are always play-fighting each other. What would you call their coloring? If anyone local would like these Roos let me know.

this is the one that crowed last night.

I am hoping the 3 in front are hens. They have more gentle personalities and their coloring is not as flashy.

here they are as a group.

 

[torrelee]

LOOOOVE the fluffy blue girl!!

 

[MarinMama]

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She is our favorite. She is so sweet and calm.

 

[rebel-rousing-at-night]

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[Katydid2011]

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You have some of the prettiest Easter Eggers I've seen to date.

 

[BHep]

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If the Ameraucana parent is homozygous for the O gene(blue egg gene) and pea comb, all of the offspring will have pea combs and lay blue to green eggs. The F1s if mated back to a single combed bird would produce as follows:

50% pea combed birds

50% single combed birds

Of the 50% pea combed birds, half would have the O gene.
Of the 50% single combed birds, only about 3% would have the O gene.

So to answer your question, just because the bird in question has a pea comb, does not mean it will lay blue/green eggs. The blue/green egg layers will almost always have pea combs, but the pea combed hens will not necessarily lay blue/green eggs.

Thank You for making that simple for me to understand

..... Makes sense, since I do have 1 EE hen with a pea comb they lays a pink egg. She is the only 1 of 6 that does not have a beard and small tuffs. The other 5 lay blue/green eggs. So wait for the hens to start laying and work from there.

Thank you Thank you

 

[phasianidae]

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Beautiful EEs. The first roo is a gold duckwing. The gold bluish one is most likely a gold duckwing with the Columbia gene and the blue gene.

 

[NevadaRon]

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I had one with that issue - "Cross Beak" is what I heard it was called. Unfortunately, it got more severe over time and I had to euthanize her as she was slowly starving to death.