The EE braggers thread!!!

[DMRippy]

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I've got only one coop and run for all my chickens - no way to spend the money on more coop building even if hubby agreed to it. One rooster for all 10 hens is more appealing to me - but I bought the BR boy as a chick for two reasons: 1) last one in the bin and I didn't want him lonely, 2) guardian for the flock while I'm at work. The Barred Rock hatchlings came as an after thought. The EEs came after I started my flock and learned about chickens laying colored eggs.

So you're saying that the boys will have the mother's combs (straight) and the girls will have the father's comb (pea) and possibly the colored egg gene (blue/green/olive/etc)? I don't know what colored egg he came from and his legs are pretty pale/yellow-ish/not dark - if I'm remembering correctly, dark legs tend to also indicate colored eggs don't they?).
You have given me some "food for thought" on this. And if I do, do the incubate/hatch thing, it would be nice to know from the beginning, the chicks' genders. Hmmmm....Now, should I hope for a broody hen next year or watch for incubator sales....

Does this make me "counting my chickens before they hatch?" After all, I'm only getting 2 eggs at the moment, the other 8 haven't started laying yet and here I am thinking of them having children. Hahaha.


CG
Combs have no connection with gender. If you have a barred roo 100% of the chicks will be barred. Since he has a straight comb and you have EE (could carry 2 or 1 copy of the pea comb gene) you will get some of each, straight combs and pea combs. The ones with pea combs SHOULD (90+% carry the blue egg gene) and would probably carry the brown egg genes too so you would get green eggs. The straight combs would most likely lay a brown egg. So that is how you make barred EE by keeping the ones with pea combs.

The only way you would know the gender is if your roo was a "solid color" (not barred or patterned) and the hens were barred.

BTW there is no connection to leg color and egg color.

 

[CFellows]

Hi! Peaches is not a splash, I would call her a wheaten or salmon. She is pretty! I think the other two are black tailed buffed like you said. I think the names of certain colors varies breed to breed, or there are certain subtle differences in a similar looking overall color that is important when you are holding a bird to a standard, but since EE's dont have a standard, we can call it whatever we want right!?

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Well, you are welcome here. We

our EE chickens.
I don't think there are proper color names for EEs. I also don't think Peaches is splash, but she does look like she has some feathers that are laced (not that she qualifies as a Laced patterned either). Part of the attraction to EEs (besides the colored eggs) is the wide variety of colors to our birds. Peaches is very lovely, no matter what "feather pattern name" she has.

CG

I don't think Peaches looks like a splash either but when I breed her with a black rooster I get blue babies so I thought she has to be a splash? Is there any such thing as a red splash?

 

[CFellows]

Welcome! The more the merrier! Sorry, can't help with color either. Your girls are pretty and those loooong tails are really neat. Do they have Old English Game in them?

I don't know what they have in them, up until today I thought they where Ameraucanas, that is what I bought them as.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I don't know what they have in them, up until today I thought they where Ameraucanas, that is what I bought them as.

yes many a easter eggers have been called Ameraucana's probably how most people got them..
But they are Great....

 

[flower]

Splash if a dilution of the Blue feather gene. With a black rooster it will be difficult to determine the colors of his chicks unless you know what colors the four grandparents are and as we know EEs have many different breeds and colors added to their mix. White actually hides some colors as does black but there are also two copies of each gene and it get more complicated when you do not know if the gene is recessive or dominate.

But I can say that your wheeten hen mixed with black rooster turns out blue chicks because blue is also a version of black. And the red is passed on form the wheeten hen. The chicks could be called blue wheeter


ORIGINAL POSTER CFellows
I don't think Peaches looks like a splash either but when I breed her with a black rooster I get blue babies so I thought she has to be a splash? Is there any such thing as a red splash?

 

[cheeka]

Violetblueivy, your pics aren't displaying on the page for me for some reason, and i can't get them to open even in another window...

CFellows... your birds are spectacular!

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: Splash laced red yes

This is my SLRW pullet I may throw some in my EE pen just to see what I get.

 

[dfdesigns]

I just wanted to give a warm welcome to those of you coming over from the Ameraucana thread...

Please know that most of us started out in your shoes, thinking we had the real deal and finding out the truth later on. It's no matter - EEs and OEs are some of the best birds around! Mine are excellent layers, and seem to be much more hardy than my true Ams.

 

[CFellows]

Thank you everyone! Here is one of the blue chicks I was talking about.

 

[DMRippy]

I just wanted to give a warm welcome to those of you coming over from the Ameraucana thread...

Please know that most of us started out in your shoes, thinking we had the real deal and finding out the truth later on. It's no matter - EEs and OEs are some of the best birds around! Mine are excellent layers, and seem to be much more hardy than my true Ams.

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