The EE braggers thread!!!

[ChickenLeg]

I can!??? This is great news! My dad was the one who told me interbreeding wouldnt be a good idea. But i just thought it made sense. Thanks so much kathy, I'm slowing learning about breeding chickens. Feel free to inform me about anything else that might be useful!!!

 

[kathyinmo]

Chickens aren't like people. As a matter of fact, inbreeding is a practice that many breeders use. If you search "inbreeding," here on BYC, you will find some good reading. Or, you can google "inbreeding poultry," and find good stuff, too. Opinions differ as far as how many generations to do this, but many of the old timers kept their flocks closed and never did add new blood.

 

[ChickenLeg]

I'm searching into it now, thanks!

 

[kathyinmo]

I'm searching into it now, thanks!

 

[JMidJr]

Pictured below are my 2 EE pullets. The one on the right is the more mature - both are 23 weeks. Our first egg was laid today - didn't expect EEs to win that race! It's a nice pale aqua, weighing just 1.45 oz

Here is my question, what do you call this color/pattern? It seems to be a common EE color variety but despite hours of searching I can't find a monicker for it.

 

[Christie Rhae]

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I have some like that too. I have just been calling it wild type. Seems like breeding with no color in mind gets you back to brown. Lol. Like when you mix all your crayon colors together you get brown? Lol I don't know for sure actually.

 

[PatS]

I am having so much fun reading this and other threads, thank you to everyone who posts pictures of their birds and eggs! For the last three years we have enjoyed our flock of buff orpingtons, but I have been admiring the beautiful eggs laid by EEs, Ameracaunas, and Araucanas. I have some very basic egg genetics questions and was hoping someone could point me in the direction of finding their answers.

Is it correct that Ameracaunas and Araucanas lay blue eggs and that if you cross one of them with a white egg layer you'll get a more pastel color being laid from their offspring? And if you cross one of them with a brown egg layer, you'll get a greenish egg from the chicks that hatch from that union? Does it matter whether it is an A/A hen to a brown egg breed rooster OR an A/A rooster over a brown egg breed hen?

A dark egg layer like a Wellsummer would give you offspring that lay a different shade of green than a lighter brown egg layer, correct? But would you see much difference between crosses made with an A/A and a Delaware Vs. A/A and Buff Orp?

Are Araucana eggs generally a bluer blue than Ameracauna eggs?

Thanks for offering any help!
Pat

 

[Christie Rhae]

I am having so much fun reading this and other threads, thank you to everyone who posts pictures of their birds and eggs! For the last three years we have enjoyed our flock of buff orpingtons, but I have been admiring the beautiful eggs laid by EEs, Ameracaunas, and Araucanas. I have some very basic egg genetics questions and was hoping someone could point me in the direction of finding their answers.

Is it correct that Ameracaunas and Araucanas lay blue eggs and that if you cross one of them with a white egg layer you'll get a more pastel color being laid from their offspring? And if you cross one of them with a brown egg layer, you'll get a greenish egg from the chicks that hatch from that union? Does it matter whether it is an A/A hen to a brown egg breed rooster OR an A/A rooster over a brown egg breed hen?

A dark egg layer like a Wellsummer would give you offspring that lay a different shade of green than a lighter brown egg layer, correct? But would you see much difference between crosses made with an A/A and a Delaware Vs. A/A and Buff Orp?

Are Araucana eggs generally a bluer blue than Ameracauna eggs?

Thanks for offering any help!
Pat

I am not sure if araucana eggs are bluer. I guess it really depends on if egg color was what the breeder was really working on or body type. I have seen very pale ameraucana eggs and amazing turquoise eggs too,
Yes it is true if you cross a pure blue egger to a white egger you get pale blue eggs. The blu egg gene is dominate. If you cross blue egger to brown egg you get greener eggs. If you cross a very dark egger like a marans to a vibrant turquoise egger you can get amazing olive green eggs. I have not read that it makes a difference who has the genes (roo or hen) you still get the same results. There is an olive egger thread here. Have you seen it? I read the whole thing one day! lol
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/131131/the-olive-egger-thread

 

[JMidJr]

[/quote]I have some like that too. I have just been calling it wild type. Seems like breeding with no color in mind gets you back to brown. Lol. Like when you mix all your crayon colors together you get brown? Lol I don't know for sure actually.[/quote]

Christie Rae, "wild type" would look like jungle fowl, which is thought to be the wild progenitor of domestic chickens (to best of my knowledge.). I think a lot of us have chickens that are very similar and that makes be believe there must be a name for the pattern. Maybe someone will clue us in yet.

 

[Grumpypantsmomma]

Got my first EE egg from my 2 EE girls today! Huge compared to the other pullets who just started laying about a week ago. WOW I feel sorry for this girl, her first egg and its already bigger then a grade AA store bought egg, you wouldn't know it by the pic because I cleaned the egg,but their was quite a bit of blood on it. out of all my pullets I have never seen that big of first egg or that much blood on the egg. I think I will be watching her for a little while just to make sure she is o.k. i a sure she is but it doesn't hurt to be cautious!
Very beautiful Egg on the Right OBVIOUSLY

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