The EE braggers thread!!!

[mstricer]

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I think of them as EE too, with a twist. To me if they lay a green egg, they already have some of the genes for Olive, they just need MORE. LOL.

I hope they lay your lots of eggs! I love my BR.... still working to improve them. I just sold 2 hens, and I am thinking of adding 1 hen to another Barred Rock roo I have, he is FINALLY old enough. Going to do some test hatches and see what I get. I also have some pullets growing up and lots more I just hatched. I figured since I was only getting half blue barred rocks and half of them will be roos, I needed more RIGHT?

I am actually keeping all the pullets for sexlinks in the spring. Usually I sell the Black ones.

I just hatched 3 Barred EE... .my Black Am that laid a greener egg, jumped the fence so now I have some barred EE to make sexlinks from too

I have 2 already.
Nice.

I have 20 days for my OE hatch, I have BR pullet under a Lavender Ameraucana cockerel, can't wait to see those chicks.

 

[Nelson-90]

My EEs are from Estes Hatchery, sold as Ameraucanas. These are some of my first chickens, and I have no idea about their breeding program, so, I've just been referring to them as EEs.

But my Saffron has an awesome beard, or so I have been told.

she really does have an awesome beard

 

[littlechicklet]

She really does! Lovely.

x2

 

[DMRippy]

Those would be sexlinks too. They SHOULD be just black and black barred roos. Lavenders shouldn't hide other colors if breed correctly.

I think I read someone wanting to toss a Wheaten in the pen to add some color.... wheaten is recessive and it takes 2 copies for the color to express same with Lavender.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

I like your birds! are you breeding for the blue and rust color?
I think he's part buttercup, part ee. Not sure, got him from an auction. I really liked his lacing, and i am aiming for birds with spangles/lacing, not fussy on how neat. I got a surprising number of chicks with blue from my last hatch, so you never know! Hoping you get more like yours you have! They are pretty.

 

[Moonchild]

Yes Ee's are most;y non standard AM's or crosses, most have beards as well tho right now I have a roo with no beard, and I could have swore he had one as a chick, not sure where it went.. will have too look back and post a picture
..... this is little red, now looking gangly and tall but no beard, does it appear he has 1 in this picture?????
anyway, AM's and EE are a big mess people are always fighting about it, its crazy they are all beautiful chickens but as far as I can figure, the difference is, am's breed true EE's do not , you can get a good variety of color from 1 pair, my EE fileen and my Graybeard, a splash wild type EE gave me 3 different colored babies this year, a white, a tan and white/gray faced girl, and 2 roos that are almost identical...WildType duck wings. these guys ........ only 1 lays a green blue egg, and that isn't outa my EE hen she was a SLW cross....my 2 hens from Fileen lay a tan pinkish egg.. so I can't complain and my favorite is the EE anyway because of all the colors...could care less about green legs or if they breed true, as long as they are EE's..............Kim
Ok a better discription of my EE's and babies in color even hehehe

That Roo is Way Awesome!!!!!!

 

[Moonchild]

My EEs are from Estes Hatchery, sold as Ameraucanas. These are some of my first chickens, and I have no idea about their breeding program, so, I've just been referring to them as EEs.

But my Saffron has an awesome beard, or so I have been told.

Awesome Chicken!

 

[aoxa]

My EEs are from Estes Hatchery, sold as Ameraucanas.  These are some of my first chickens, and I have no idea about their breeding program, so, I've just been referring to them as EEs.


But my Saffron has an awesome beard, or so I have been told.

I would still keep EEs even if they didn't lay coloured eggs. Those beards are totally worth it!

 

[cheeka]

gifa

you know I love that picture... I wanna have a cuddle... she's so "Floofy" to borrow the term...

 

[SistaChick]

gifa, that is a gorgeous girl!