The EE braggers thread!!!

[gootziecat]

Emjay, I echo others remarks on Caramel. Her head is shaped differently than the others. Do you know her breeding?

 

[Kassaundra]

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What makes your think "Audrey" her neck would be longer if I would choose that moniker.

That is the actress I think of when I think of black and white, both w/ the films and her dressing.

 

[ChickenKid11]

Another one of me hens very good layer!!!!

 

[Wild Trapper]

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Ours, and we have butchered several different kinds of chickens, but the EE's taste like all the rest. Just don't expect them to be like the store bought birds.



Can you elaborate on that last comment?

Pretty hard to explain taste and texture on an Internet forum. Also, it is more something a person would have to experience for themselves. Maybe it something to do with the way they are grown, how fed, the kind of chicken they are and the age, all factors that would determine the final product effect taste and texture. What I'm saying is there will be a difference that you would notice. Kind of like different kinds of fish being different tasting and texture, they are all fish, but you can really tell that not all fish taste alike.

EEs are my favorite egg layers of all the chickens I've ever owned, but I'd rather have them for egg laying than raise them for meat. The roosters are just not gonna lay any eggs so they get culled for the table. BTW, they "Taste just like chicken"!

 

[artsyrobin]

was testing a new point and shoot camera, and i hate to admit it but it does much better than my more expensive one...check out olivias feathers! i just love her coloring

 

[Bianca67]

Mad Max is a beauty!

 

[Zigmont]

Hi,

I love my EEs. They are getting big. Ogee and Buffy are about 11 weeks in these pics. I can't wait to get blue green eggs!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/110447_dsc02838.jpg


https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/110447_dsc02830.jpg


https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/110447_dsc02850.jpg

 

[stormylady]

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Can you elaborate on that last comment?

Pretty hard to explain taste and texture on an Internet forum. Also, it is more something a person would have to experience for themselves. Maybe it something to do with the way they are grown, how fed, the kind of chicken they are and the age, all factors that would determine the final product effect taste and texture. What I'm saying is there will be a difference that you would notice. Kind of like different kinds of fish being different tasting and texture, they are all fish, but you can really tell that not all fish taste alike.

EEs are my favorite egg layers of all the chickens I've ever owned, but I'd rather have them for egg laying than raise them for meat. The roosters are just not gonna lay any eggs so they get culled for the table. BTW, they "Taste just like chicken"!

I just wanted to add that in my limited experience, the meat is much more firm, and I want to say the taste is , Deeper or maybe more intence maybe, but definietly better than any store bought chicken, in all honesty though we've only eaten one of our Roos he was a light brahma about 5/6 months old. I put him in the freezer for a couple of weeks (because my boys refused to eat him) anyway I pulled him out of the freezer finially and cooked it up in a pot of chicken and noodles and those kids that wouldn't eat him said that was the best chicken and noodles they ever had. I did tell them that it was our Rooster and they weren't really happy but they still said it was the best chicken they had ever had. LOL ( I have some people around here that say you can't and refuse to get the blue/green eggs, Mostly older folks, just want the white or brown eggs, they say your not suppose to eat the colored eggs

and I tell them it taste just like any other farm fresh egg they won't even give it a chance. lol )

 

[stormylady]

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Very cute!

 

[workinnanie]

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Pretty hard to explain taste and texture on an Internet forum. Also, it is more something a person would have to experience for themselves. Maybe it something to do with the way they are grown, how fed, the kind of chicken they are and the age, all factors that would determine the final product effect taste and texture. What I'm saying is there will be a difference that you would notice. Kind of like different kinds of fish being different tasting and texture, they are all fish, but you can really tell that not all fish taste alike.

EEs are my favorite egg layers of all the chickens I've ever owned, but I'd rather have them for egg laying than raise them for meat. The roosters are just not gonna lay any eggs so they get culled for the table. BTW, they "Taste just like chicken"!

I just wanted to add that in my limited experience, the meat is much more firm, and I want to say the taste is , Deeper or maybe more intence maybe, but definietly better than any store bought chicken, in all honesty though we've only eaten one of our Roos he was a light brahma about 5/6 months old. I put him in the freezer for a couple of weeks (because my boys refused to eat him) anyway I pulled him out of the freezer finially and cooked it up in a pot of chicken and noodles and those kids that wouldn't eat him said that was the best chicken and noodles they ever had. I did tell them that it was our Rooster and they weren't really happy but they still said it was the best chicken they had ever had. LOL ( I have some people around here that say you can't and refuse to get the blue/green eggs, Mostly older folks, just want the white or brown eggs, they say your not suppose to eat the colored eggs

and I tell them it taste just like any Other farm fresh egg they won't even give it a chance. lol )

We had some EE's butchered this fall and I was delighted to have chicken that tasted like the chicken I had when I was a young girl. My mom was a hair dresser and she used to do a farm lady's hair in return for dressed chickens! Oh so good. I think the taste has to do with how they are fed and the fact that they free range. Just saying...