The EE braggers thread!!!

[Arielle]

If I put a black Ameraucana roo in with these hens:
Plymouth Barred Rock
Brown Leghorn
Golden Cuckoo Marans
Welsummer
Delaware
NH red

Would any of their chicks be sex-linked?

There are 2 types of sexlinks: red x silver hen and non-white nonbarred rooster x barred hen.

Here is more information. Actually a huge amount.
BackYardChickens Forum / Sex- linked Information

 

[heath_elisha]

This is Mabel and Hazel all almost grown up. They are 20 weeks old today. No eggs, but I guess that's normal. Hazel is super skittish, where Mabel will chase me down. I love how colorful they are.

I thank you MadameDork for these pictures!!!!! We have some 8 week old chicks and one chick I have been questioning whether or not is was a cockerel or not. See pictures below

The one in question is the darker red one.

 

[draye]

I thank you MadameDork for these pictures!!!!! We have some 8 week old chicks and one chick I have been questioning whether or not is was a cockerel or not. See pictures below

The one in question is the darker red one.

So far to me it is looking like a pullet.

 

[backroomtreasures]

I have 3 EE lt blue eggs in the incubator (along with a couple of other eggs) and they are all 3 pipping right now! I am very excited!

 

[backroomtreasures]

One of my little EE's just hatched- I'll post pictures later

 

[Rebecky54]

I've had EE's off and on for 20 years -- don't have any right now, but I miss them. Thinking of getting some this spring, but also thinking about purebred Ameraucanas and looking for input. I know the Ameraucanas are bred to SOP and all lay blue eggs. The EEs may lay blue, may not and are varied in appearance -- any other differences to think about? I know the EEs are cheaper. Does one hatchery have better EEs?

TIA for input!

Becky

 

[Arielle]

Becky I have EE and Am roosters. I can only speak for my birds. I love the EE hens. THese came from McMurray. Sweet birds; my boys always play with them even a year later. THey lay a good size egg; I don't have a scale to actually measure the egg but IMO they look like a large-xlg. One of my biggest eggs for sure. THe egg colors vary as well. blue and greens. ANother hen I have ( a rehomed bird) lays a huge pink egg. I don't know which hatchery she came from.

My Am roosters are not the nicest boys. One is more aggressive toward the brother. And they both beat up on my BO rooster ( he has been removed for his safety). THe blue Am seem to be more docile toward each other. I often go in their pen (4 Am + 1 BO) and have no problems with them. I expect them to produce blue eggs but I have heard the eggs can be greenish. I have not verified this for myself.


My EE rooster is sweet and easy. PRetty colors, like gray granite with rust running thru it.

I like my EE and only have the Am because they were available to improve the color. I think the eggs of the AM may be smaller than the EE eggs, but I only have boys so not sure! LOL

Ameraucanas are NOT available from the major hatcheries. THey use the name but send EE. Am come from the breeders, not the usual hatcheries. Most hatcheries have changed to using the name EE; a few have not.

 

[backroomtreasures]

Here's a picture of my new ee chicks hatched yesterday. I have 5 chicks, they all hatched. one, I'm not sure which hen laid, but the ee roo is the papa, it is a yellow chick. all very cute.

 

[Rebecky54]

Thanks for the info. I would order Ameraucanas from a breeder -- I've been looking at Wheaten, Blue Wheaten and/or Silver, but I don't really want another purebred project -- I am still working on my Buff Chanteclers. I would get EE's from a hatchery, just curious if they are all the same quality or if one hatchery is better. I have had EEs from McMurray and Hoover's. I may just get EE's since I don't really want purebreds at this time.


My favorite all-time rooster was a silver duckwing colored EE. He was wonderful to his girls and never mean. Getting straight run EE's is so much fun -- so colorful. I have a little hen now from my last blue egg -- had to hatch it. She is red/brown with a single comb, slate legs and bantam sized. She came from a pen of birds that I took to a sale. Her mother was an EE and the father was a BO -- not sure where the bantam size came from. Her "sister" is a cushion-combed EE -- came from a mutt gray hen with a rose comb and my EE rooster. She's very heavy bodied, mostly white with some Columbian markings and slate legs. Both lay well. Thought I was getting out of EE's/Ameraucanas last year to focus on the Chanteclers, but I miss them, and I need a rooster for these girls. Excuses, excuses!

Becky

 

[Arielle]

I just love the EE too. Wouldn't want to be with out them--my first chicken was/is a EE, she'd actually sitting beside me here as I type, and it's all her fault I have so many chickens.