The EE braggers thread!!!

[Flowerbh]

OMG, Shell1981. You are going to have so much fun raising chickens! The funnest part of raising chicks is to see what they turn out looking like! (And of course, getting those eggs! You know that EE have blue/green or pinkish eggs!) I do notice your chicks have yellow legs....or are they turning blue/slate colored? All my EE have slate colored legs. You can never tell what color they will be! You can get two chicks that look identical, and they will grown up really different! Have fun with them. Before you know it, you will have more, I bet! Nobody can have just 2!

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Regarding the yellow legs. Can the color change as they grow?

One of mine had green with yellow foot pads and the other has very dark slate. I know the leg color darkened as they grew, but seems they started with greenish early on. Wish I had paid more attention and taken better pics!

Can the yellow leg color change to green or slate? or will it stay yellow?

Thanks for indulging my curiosity.

 

[Flowerbh]

I looked back at my last EE and she had yellowish legs at 1-2 weeks, but then changed to greenish. She is now 14 weeks old and they are that same greenish color.

 

[ronott1]

Regarding the yellow legs. Can the color change as they grow?

One of mine had green with yellow foot pads and the other has very dark slate. I know the leg color darkened as they grew, but seems they started with greenish early on. Wish I had paid more attention and taken better pics!

Can the yellow leg color change to green or slate? or will it stay yellow?

Thanks for indulging my curiosity.

It's more likely for the feet to change. This can happen with Australorps too. This is another reason why people culling for show chickens should wait for a year and sometimes two years before culling them.

One person gave away BAs with yellow feet which later turned pink like they are supposed to be. They might have been good for type and etc. but that will never me known now.

I don't think yellow will turn to slate.

Ron

 

[2StrayRoos]

Sorry...I'm new at this. My post above was meant for 2StrayRoos. Thanks!

I don't have any baby pictures to show on site just grown ups of these girls. I have 3 photo albums of these monkies. Looking at their baby pictures, I had three chipmunks which are now that golden with black penciling. One is more gold with less black, Gretta the one in the picture has a little black and more golden color, the other one has more black on her even a black beard with her gold color, Ginger is more red than gold with black she was light brown as a chick, Etta was a dark brown chick, still dark brown with a little gold and Sage the lightest of them all looks like a wheaton color now. In the sun some of her feathers look lavendar. She has slate color legs, she is my only blue layer. Besides Grettas pink egg, everybody else lays mint green. Cinder the one with most of the black on her lays more of an olive egg. I will show you my new babies as babies and what they look like now.

 

[Flowerbh]

Here is Nugget at 1-2 weeks old. Notice yellowish legs.

Ooops wrong picture, can't see her legs...



Now her legs are slate colored. So, they did change. I remember worrying because she didn't have the right colored legs for an EE....but they did change.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

I do remember thinking that there were a lot of yellow legs in the EE brooder at the feedstore. Maybe it just takes time for some to form the pigment. Like blue-eyed newborn babies, after time the blue can be covered by darker colors.

Isn't life amazing?

 

[Summer98]

One of my EE's has a very odd looking comb. The others seem to have a pea comb that is small. This one has a large comb that is flopped over on its side and seems to be blinding her. Is this normal?

 

[flower]

Summer98 The comb on your bird is odd but you could not classify it as abnormal. It is most likely a combination of a large single comb and a pea comb. If it really bothers you and the bird you could do surgery called dubbing. In the breed Old English Game Bantams the birds are dubbed to meet qualification for shows. Some breeder are able to do the procedure on the farm. It is most likely comparable to the procedure that removes the horns from goats.

 

[Illia]

Day old chicks' leg color may change drastically once the bird is mature, yes. Most green legs as adults appear yellow or just simply orangeish as day olds. Most true slate legged as chicks appear yellow, green, or some weird combo depending on age. White legs are the only one that don't change unless of course the chick has a color that will alter leg color. (darker colors often make white legs darker, however the soles are always pinkish white)