I have some questions one of which I posted under it as the topic but got no responses, just a lot of readers so there must be other curious chicken owners out there with the same question...
That one is do bantam chicks vs regular sized chicks feather out at different rates?
The other question has more to do with EE particularly...
do EEs always have green legs? Does anyone know what causes this coloration? Or do EEs just have anything other than the slate colored legs.
Also, one more....the comb...
Do EEs have a variety of comb types or do they have the pea comb like Ameraucanas?
EE's do not always have green legs. Most hatchery stock indeed do, but not always, and homemade ones certainly won't if bred for other colors. For example, most of mine are slate legged. Green legs come from a combination of slate and yellow. Slate is a dominant gene, yellow is recessive. So green legs are always a good indicator of EE vs Ameraucana, as it takes more than just one oops generation to mess up a pure Ameraucana and get those green legs.
EE's often will have single combs due to the whole brown x blue = green thing, however, most of them should ideally have a pea comb like Ameraucanas, since it is linked to the blue egg gene. But, all that said, to the untrained eye it will appear like they have different comb types, since single combs can modify pea combs to be floppy, tall, spiky, lumpy, folded, etc.
