TSC Olive Eggers & “Americanas”—any idea what color these chicks will be?

[Tunie B]

Your EE cockerel looks *exactly* like my Chuck, an EE Rooster;

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Splash w/ Wild/Partridge (red) leakage

Oh he’s beautiful!! Thank you for sharing!

 

[Fallenone05]

Bramble is turning out very pretty. I’m so curious what her parents were!

Is she one of the Easter Egger pullets? She makes me think of a Starlight Green Egger.

 

[Tunie B]

Blackberry, 7 weeks

 

[Tunie B]

Is she one of the Easter Egger pullets? She makes me think of a Starlight Green Egger.

Sold as an “Americana” (aka EE), but could be anything, since she was from TSC

 

[ChickenShepherd_6116]

I'm curious. I know they won't get their "real" color until their final molt, but how are those pretty babies looking, so far?

When do chicks go through their final molt? I have some 2mo pullets and I'm wondering if they are their final color.

 

[Tunie B]

More Blackberry

 

[Tunie B]

Bramble at 7 weeks.

 

[First family chicken]

They’re beautiful

 

[Tunie B]

Pic from last week. Yesterday I saw him take advantage of either his adoptive mom or aunt…

The bigger hens chase him away. She also was pissed.

I know this is natural….but gross!!

 

[Tunie B]

At 15 weeks old, Thistle is still behaving respectfully to humans and learning how to be respectful with hens (I have 24 hens between him and a 2nd (bantam) rooster. The older hens are between ages 1-7 years old (and some are bigger than him still, as large breeds—this means he can still get his ass kicked if he gets out of line).

My older hens appear to like him, mostly. He & the Silkie/D’Uccle boy (hatched here from a beloved Silkie rooster that was killed by a raccoon) are getting along well, so far. Actually, the bantam defended another bantam hen that Thistle was trying to forcefully mate. I was relieved to see him back down. (The bantam’s mom is named Ghost Pepper for a reason!)