The EE braggers thread!!!

[Nelson-90]

OK maybe some of you can help me out a bit. I have 4 poults, Welsummer mamma, Ameraucana roo. Hatched last week of May, so about 4 months old. They are showing 2 different comb types, which at first I thought maybe 2 boys, 2 girls, but now I"m thinking just the difference between the comb types of the parents. The first three pics are of the same bird with a sort of double comb.






Then there are 2 birds with what looks like a single comb.


Do you think these indicate a gender difference or just how they inherited the comb types of the parents? Any other clues as to sex ID at this age or do I just need to be patient? So hoping at least a couple are girls and lay olive eggs!

well ussually in males the comb is much bigger and thats a very interesting comb never seen anything like it its going to be hard to tell its going to be either an egg or a crow to know for sure>..

 

[Mama Hen Chris]

this girl looks a lot like my poults that are half Ameraucana and half Welsummer, except they don't have feathered legs; what's her parentage?

Dad is Bantam Mottled Cochin and Mom is Ameracuana

 

[Summer98]

So a lot of people have been talking about making chickens larger that are EEs, why not just breed with a jersey giant and then go back and forth with an EE?

That would make sense to me. I'm hoping that my brahma/EE cross will be a bigger EE too. Since brahmas are big and all

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[Cedarknob]

That would make sense to me. I'm hoping that my brahma/EE cross will be a bigger EE too. Since brahmas are big and all

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I have some large EEs; they're a cross of Ameraucana and Cornish Rock. This is an older picture of them, they are now 5 months old, and started laying already!.



This is a pullet egg. It had a soft shell between the yolk and the white, so is extra large, but they've been running very big for pullet eggs anyway.

 

[MyTDogs]

I think I have an EE that looks like a GLW sort of. Interesting, she will stick around... she might be an Olive Egger, but I doubt it she does not have feathered legs.

why does she have to have feathered legss to be an oe?

 

[DMRippy]

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At my place they get culled for NOT having Feathered legs LOL.. I am trying to breed my Olive Eggers to have beards and feathered legs. After that I think I am just looking for Olive Eggs. I would LOVE to have a pen that breeds true... at least for Olive Eggs.

 

[Kassaundra]

OK maybe some of you can help me out a bit. I have 4 poults, Welsummer mamma, Ameraucana roo. Hatched last week of May, so about 4 months old. They are showing 2 different comb types, which at first I thought maybe 2 boys, 2 girls, but now I"m thinking just the difference between the comb types of the parents. The first three pics are of the same bird with a sort of double comb.






Then there are 2 birds with what looks like a single comb.


Do you think these indicate a gender difference or just how they inherited the comb types of the parents? Any other clues as to sex ID at this age or do I just need to be patient? So hoping at least a couple are girls and lay olive eggs!

Those combs may be odd, but those are girl colors.

 

[Moonchild]

So a lot of people have been talking about making chickens larger that are EEs, why not just breed with a jersey giant and then go back and forth with an EE?

I have this...My roo was BlueJG and red EE and I got these beautiful birds....BUT the size was no bigger they took their mother's size and sweet personality(dad was hateful)
DAD

MOM


Roo Baby: Promethus great mix of mom and dad in coloring but sweet like mom and nowhere as big as dad.


All three together Promethus the roo, Mrs.Lyles the blk with beige partiridge marking in neck; Ghost the EE hen that's blue and red also. ALL are so sweet. None of the hens are nowhere as big as a JG hen, but are a good size.


It's amazing how these babies came from those parents...Love them ALL...mom died about a three months before this pic(miss her) Got rid of DAD toooo mean and big.

 

[Flowerbh]

beautiful roo and birds!

 

[Nelson-90]

I have this...My roo was BlueJG and red EE and I got these beautiful birds....BUT the size was no bigger they took their mother's size and sweet personality(dad was hateful)
DAD

MOM


Roo Baby: Promethus great mix of mom and dad in coloring but sweet like mom and nowhere as big as dad.


All three together Promethus the roo, Mrs.Lyles the blk with beige partiridge marking in neck; Ghost the EE hen that's blue and red also. ALL are so sweet. None of the hens are nowhere as big as a JG hen, but are a good size.


It's amazing how these babies came from those parents...Love them ALL...mom died about a three months before this pic(miss her) Got rid of DAD toooo mean and big.

they all look very nice