The EE braggers thread!!!

[ronott1]

I dont know much about most of them. My first I found. His name is Chickie. I was told he may be a mix of brahma and australorp. I got my first hen from which most of them came from a woman with wild chickens on her farm. I have one pure faverolle and one pure Ameraucana but the rest are mixes.

Are cream leghorns crested? I know that my first roo that had a crest was probably a wheaten something due to his coloring. I thought the crest was a growth on his head...I was very worried that he had a tumor.

Do they lay blue or green eggs? If so, they probably are either mixed with cream legbars or someone was experimenting with the same breeds that were used to produce the Cream legbar breed.

The single comb, coloring and crest are like creme legbars.

Ron

 

[DirtyAnkleAcres]

I'm wanting to breed some EE out of my own birds, i have ameraucanas some show quality that won't be used but i have others that caming from parent flock with a roo that has to much leaking, too high of a tail set.......which i was going to just use in my EE project. I'm new to EE's as well as breeding chickens myself, so correct me/advise me/suggest/etc on this, But i've gotten a small group of different breeds of brown egg layers together(rir,buff orp, glw, gold coments,copper marans,black astro,etc.) that i was going to cross on blue ameraucana roo and see what i can produce from each of them, and pick the combinations i like the best. What does everyone think?

 

[draye]

I'm wanting to breed some EE out of my own birds, i have ameraucanas some show quality that won't be used but i have others that caming from parent flock with a roo that has to much leaking, too high of a tail set.......which i was going to just use in my EE project. I'm new to EE's as well as breeding chickens myself, so correct me/advise me/suggest/etc on this, But i've gotten a small group of different breeds of brown egg layers together(rir,buff orp, glw, gold coments,copper marans,black astro,etc.) that i was going to cross on blue ameraucana roo and see what i can produce from each of them, and pick the combinations i like the best. What does everyone think?

If you are wanting your Ameraucana's to be show quality, why aould you want to use a second rate rooster in you Easter Eggers?
Why wouldn't you want them to be show worthy too, I know that they are not showable but why not breed them to a higher standard like any other breed?

Quality!

 

[Lobzi]

Thanks for this info. I have been trying to get to the bottom of what I might have in the way of breeds. Perhaps you are correct. Ill never know for sure as the original were of unknown heritage.

 

[Simmonsfunnyfrm]

I just happened to find an old picture of my EE roo I had last year and wanted to share. He started off just being called 'Blue', but at the end we changed it to Free Bird. Why? Well, this guy was one of my few survivors from the super hot summer we had last year. It was my first flock of chickens and I made the mistake of getting them in July when it was sweltering hot. The seller told me they were two weeks old and since it was so hot they probably didn't need a brooder...so being the newbie I was, I just put them straight into the coop. The few that didn't die from the heat and/or a respiratory sickness most had all turned out to be roos except for one BO pullet. So, by November I decided I would take the roos to freezer camp and sell the pullet to a friend of mine. The night before it was Blue's turn, she told me that she wanted to take him too! Talk about one lucky rooster. So I agreed and the next morning we set about catching them. The pullet was easy. Into the box she went. Now Blue had other ideas. He gave us the runaround for an hour. Finally, he flapped with all his might over the 6 foot fence we had them in! Back then I didn't think chickens could fly more than a few feet at a time

so over the fence he went and we didn't see him again for a few days. I was sure he was dead, then one day I caught him by the fence crowing! I made one last futile attempt to catch him, then he ran into the neighbors' yard, where their husky promptly dispatched him. Sigh, he had no idea it was his lucky day and ruined it all lol. To this day he is known as Free Bird

 

[Lobzi]

He is cute roo I must say. His coloring is so much like a hen rather than a roo. Too bad he met is demise...

 

[Simmonsfunnyfrm]

He really was hard to tell. I thought he was a pullet straight up til he crowed at a little over 4 months old!

 

[yoie]

My boy Edgar, I just love his coloring. His tail is a dark blue too, but one of his girls decided to pull them out. I'm not even sure what his coloring would be close to.

 

[draye]

That is what I call a silver with red leakage. If Illia were on she'd be able to tell you.
I have a young I'm trying to grow off that looks like him.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

I just happened to find an old picture of my EE roo I had last year and wanted to share. He started off just being called 'Blue', but at the end we changed it to Free Bird. Why? Well, this guy was one of my few survivors from the super hot summer we had last year. It was my first flock of chickens and I made the mistake of getting them in July when it was sweltering hot. The seller told me they were two weeks old and since it was so hot they probably didn't need a brooder...so being the newbie I was, I just put them straight into the coop. The few that didn't die from the heat and/or a respiratory sickness most had all turned out to be roos except for one BO pullet. So, by November I decided I would take the roos to freezer camp and sell the pullet to a friend of mine. The night before it was Blue's turn, she told me that she wanted to take him too! Talk about one lucky rooster. So I agreed and the next morning we set about catching them. The pullet was easy. Into the box she went. Now Blue had other ideas. He gave us the runaround for an hour. Finally, he flapped with all his might over the 6 foot fence we had them in! Back then I didn't think chickens could fly more than a few feet at a time

so over the fence he went and we didn't see him again for a few days. I was sure he was dead, then one day I caught him by the fence crowing! I made one last futile attempt to catch him, then he ran into the neighbors' yard, where their husky promptly dispatched him. Sigh, he had no idea it was his lucky day and ruined it all lol. To this day he is known as Free Bird

Poor guy. Didn't know what was good for him! He was really nice looking, but did he have any red on his wings? (I think I see a little bit in the pic?) It's been my understanding that the dark red leakage on the wings is an EE rooster early warning sign. (Well, maybe not always early.) But if your guy didn't get any red, then my main indicator won't work for all.

Just wondering if it holds true.