The EE braggers thread!!!

[marlowmanor]

Went to feed the chickens and look what I found!

It is a light green color. One of my EEs is finally laying! Now I am looking forward to the other 5 hens to start laying too. This one has already been eaten since my ODS decided to try to crack it when we got back from getting a couple groceries this evening.

This was actually after his attempt at cracking it open. The other side of it has the crack in it! Good thing homegrown chicken eggs have thicker shells!

 

[Illia]

What exactly is an EE? I thought they were an Ameracuana parent crossed with any other breed of parent. As long as one of the parents is an Ameracauna that it could be crossed with anything else. No?

No, especially considering there's another prospect of a purebred parent most people seem to forget - Araucanas.

Most hatchery based Easter Eggers are actually the colored laying mutts we got from S. America, and the hatcheries continued to breed them as so, calling them whatever they want. (Araucanas, Americanas, Americaunas, Ameraucanas, Easter Egg chickens) while Ameraucanas and Araucanas though from the same root stock, were bred to be a true-breeding separate breed.

The term EE actually applies though to any blue, green, or other odd colored layer that does not conform to being or is not a purebred Ameraucana or Araucana. It can be a cross of them with each other or something else, or it, and in most cases, is a product of breeding with no goal but colored eggs for generations of the original colored layers we brought across borders.

 

[CSWolffe]

An Easter Egger is any chicken that possesses the 'blue' egg gene but does not conform to any specific breed standard. So a cross from one Auracana or Ameracauna parent would be an EE, so would a hybrid several generations down the line.

 

[Hatch me if you can]

So fellow EE breeders/enthusiasts I have this bantam EE chick that is stumping me at this point on whether it is a roo or a hen. I have 4 pics for you to look at and scrutinize for me so please help out. This one hatched on 1/20/12 so in a week it will be 8 weeks old. (It has also had lite blue eyes since the day it hatched and still does)



WOW it looks like we need to trim that beak




Looks like it's 5 o'clock shadow is starting to come in!!!

 

[Illia]

Looks like a pullet.

Cockerels often come in with reddish coloring on the body and white and black the rest of the way, but this one has reddish coloring in a more salmoney hue all the way down to the breast, and throughout the body so I'm sure it is a silver duckwing pullet with excess and very pretty salmony reddish coloration.

 

[Hatch me if you can]

Thank you Illia for the quick response! I was thinking the same thing but wanted someone with more knowledge than I to be sure.. I can't wait to see what her final color will be when she is done feathering out. Her siblings all have a blue hew to them but its like Christmas morning waiting to see what you finally get for sure!!

 

[Grumpypantsmomma]

So I have a 3 almost 2 week old chicks hatched from my Handsome EE Roo and Barred Rock hens, the ? was if they would make sexlink chicks, and answer from multiple people is that the chicks would be if they hatch out black and to look for head spots those would be the boys. All three don't have head spots of any kind, which if their sexlink would be awesome that would mean 3 girls.
Dad is a non recognized color Ameracauna making him an EE. Moms are purebred Barred Rock hens. No headspots or barring on their wing feathers.


I just had 3 more of their siblings hatch out yesterday none of them have head spots either making me think their not sex-link or the boys are just not hatching out. Either way I love them all the same, they have the cutest little muffs. I am curious as to what color they will lay because I don't know what color their dad passed down and moms lay brown eggs.

Edited to add 1 more of these babies hatched, needed help as it was stuck in the shell and pipped bottom side but its here fluffed out and it doesn't have a headspot either. I guess we see how these feather out. at this point thinking not sexlinked. I would be really darn lucky to have all 7 babies be Girls.

 

[Illia]

Looks and sounds like a bunch 'o girls to me.

 

[dfdesigns]

Three girls.... congrats!

 

[marlowmanor]

Here is a picture of our EE roo. He is the dominant rooster even though he is smaller than our BR roo. He is the only one who crows. He daily throughout the day and night.