The EE braggers thread!!!

[wingsofglory]

I think chicks by a Buff Orp roo and EE hen would be very cute.

I'm not sure, but most of the chicks will lay a turquoise egg. The blue egg gene plus the brown egg gene from the Buff Orp makes beautiful turquoise eggs.

Many of the chicks will have the puffy cheeks and muffs of the Easter Egger mother.

My EE roo x my Light Brahma hen was the sweetest, cutest hen ever.

You can run any kind of rooster with your EE hens. Buffs are usually not mean, so mixed with EE would be mellow.

 

[floridachickhatcher]

Well i had thought about that and about making a RIR X BO but i heard a comment on how that was a mistake for one person cause he said they had to go to freezer camp early lol

 

[wingsofglory]

RIR are a handful.

 

[floridachickhatcher]

Uh huh i know my mom says they are the best brown egg layers....BULL!!The meanest and ornery is more like it

 

[Kassaundra]

The color egg a grown chicken lays is not affected at all by the type of rooster she is with, or if there is no rooster at all. The only way a rooster will effect the color of the eggs laid would be in offspring from that rooster.

 

[tuesdays chicks]

not all ee are guaranteed to lay blue or green eggs, and every time you add a brown gene your going to get less green egg layers

 

[HoP]

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a very pretty chicken, shame about her beak, I'm not an expert but the way the beak is shaped I'm not sure trimming it is going to help her looks like it would be more harmful to her I would post those same pics https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewforum.php?id=10
to see if anyone can make a suggestion to you.

Thanks for the info. A couple of weeks ago, I did get on some thread..I think it was here and most had never heard this type of beak situation when I explained her lower beak was longer. The response and also my local chapter chicken group both said to take a dremel to her beak. I don't think this is going to work either since there does not seem to be anything to dremel off without hitting some living tissue. (I am not a chicken expert). She eats well and is healthy looking. The only thing she can't do is pick up bugs and worms. I have to cup them in my hands and after several attempts she does grasp it, but now she just ignores them. IDK...it is weird. I think its her top beak, its curved way too much.

 

[HoP]

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very very pretty

 

[Vickir73]

Does anyone know where I might find a EE roo? I post in the want ads, but thought I'd ask ya'll, since this is all about EE. I have 2 EE girls that are almost 1 yr and 5 that are 2 months old. I was hoping one of the 2 months old would be a roo, but I'm having my doubts. I'm also interested in obtaining more (my darkest green layers were lost by a neighbors dog) so now the 2 girls have left are only light green layers. I'd like to work on getting darker eggs again. Any suggestions? I have 2 light Brahma roos, but in my chicks (1 month old) I do have 5 maran roos coming up (which I will cull some of these once they are feathered out), so would breeding my EE hens to a Maran roo create darker green layers?

 

[draye]

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Check out the Oliver Eggers Thread.


ETA: here it is: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=131131