The EE braggers thread!!!

[inthesticks]

Use your barred hens/pullets with the EE roo for sex links. You will get some green eggs and some brown eggs from the mix, but they will all be layers you can sex.... and predict which is which at hatch too.... pea combs vs straight. OR use a BR roo and make you some Barred EE (keep the pea combs for the EE pen than you can make sexling EE too)

Wow great info! I cannot wait for my roo to be old enough, going to have some wonderful chicks from it!

 

[aoxa]

My boy Stanley is 24 weeks old now and a real gentleman. He doesn't over breed, he chases roosters away who do, and he is very people friendly. Calls his girls to food right out of our hands!

We sometimes call him Staniel as well. two of his 4 girls:

 

[Wishing4Wings]

My boy Stanley is 24 weeks old now and a real gentleman. He doesn't over breed, he chases roosters away who do, and he is very people friendly. Calls his girls to food right out of our hands!

We sometimes call him Staniel as well.

Stanley is a stud muffin! The girls are lovely too.

 

[aoxa]

Stanley is a stud muffin!  The girls are lovely too.

Thank you! I have 7 eggs in the incubator from his girls. Only 1 has started laying (a white girl) and they are a week along and veining nicely

 

[Nelson-90]

My boy Stanley is 24 weeks old now and a real gentleman. He doesn't over breed, he chases roosters away who do, and he is very people friendly. Calls his girls to food right out of our hands!

We sometimes call him Staniel as well.

two of his 4 girls:

gorgeous love them all they look amaizing

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Thank you!

I have 7 eggs in the incubator from his girls. Only 1 has started laying (a white girl) and they are a week along and veining nicely

I am becoming obsessed with finding an earlobe-egg connection, but my sample size is so small. My typical brownish EE has white earlobes and lays a light blue egg. My neighbor has similar color EEs with red earlobes, and gets gray-green eggs. I know it wouldn't be 100% but it makes sense, doesn't it?

Can you tell me what color eggs Stanley's girls lay and what color their earlobes are? Pleeeease!

 

[Bleenie]

I have just always called him Buff Laced, but I can tell you his father was a SplashBLRW & mother was one of my Buff Wyandottes. Rodger does carry splashing, you could see it in his tail when he was younger but he's since molted it all out. I have a GORGEOUS son of his that I will be leaving in with the EE and other Wyandotte girls I am keeping... He's a beautiful Splash pattern with that pale yellow(like his dads saddle) on his shoulders. It's really hard to get a good picture of with my camera. I am excited to see what he 'makes' after he's old enough.

Is it possible your Buff Laced is really a Splash laced red? Black birds can hide lots of colors so you really never know what you will get.

 

[Bleenie]

If I could ever find an "acceptable"(to my liking/standards, lol) EE roo I would separate the EE girls but at this point they will be cooped with my "Splash, yellow-shoulder" Wyandotte roo. Will probably still have some lovely chicks, I was amazed at how many bearded chicks i got this year from RodgerXEE girls, and BIG beards they were!!

I loved all the roo's i got from Rodger this year but they were MASSIVE by 3 months and I was worried they would injure the girls if I kept them for breeding.

Bleenie ~ they are all so beautiful! i lost one white EE cockerel to a fox, and the one i have left is handsome, dark, but has no beard or muffs, and he used to run after the hens when Barney was here, Barney was quite the boy... very dominant and was doing roostery things from a tender age, he was mounting the girls or trying to from about 8-9 weeks. (he was crowing by 6 weeks...) Royce doesn't crow, and since he doesn't show much interest... i'm not holding out for a lot of chicks... but i want all EE's. i have 2 BR pullets and 2 RIR pullets to add to the mix with the 2 EE pullets... could get some nice little chickiedoos if Royce would Roo-up! My girl Isis looks a lot like your lil miss hide and seek.

Here's the boy I am planning on keeping with my 'extras'... Ain't he purty?

 

[aoxa]

I am becoming obsessed with finding an earlobe-egg connection, but my sample size is so small. My typical brownish EE has white earlobes and lays a light blue egg. My neighbor has similar color EEs with red earlobes, and gets gray-green eggs. I know it wouldn't be 100% but it makes sense, doesn't it? Can you tell me what color eggs Stanley's girls lay and what color their earlobes are? Pleeeease!

Well the white girl is the only one laying, and her earlobes are whiteish.

Here are her eggs

 

[Nelson-90]

he is pretty