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my quail went from over a dozen a day to 1-2 a week total

EEs are great!. I enjoy them as much as I do my true Wheaten and Lavender Ameraucanas. EEs seem to lay better, too.

EEs are a delightful mix of almost any chicken that has the potential to carry the blue egg gene. That is why such a variety of colors in the chickens exist and the blue egg gene with influence from brown modifiers (won't go into details here) produce anything from pale blue to teal to deep...

I don't really know. It could be a throwback to the very early influence of the Araucanas. I have true Ameraucanas and by reading some breeders forums, it will pop up on rare occasions and they are culled, since it is not part of the standard. Those culls are often used with EEs or OEs to...

called angel wings when the feathers curl back around the neck, genetic thing and I think it happens more with chickens with beard and muffs

There are only 2 egg shell colors - blue and white. Blue shell gene is dominant. The brown is a coating that hen lays over shell b4 the bloom. The brown coating over the blue shell is what creates the various shades on the outside from blue to deep olive. i.e.: no brown makes true blue egg to...

I freeze half gallon jugs of water to keep the drinking water cool and also place some jugs in a shaded area they like to hang out is. Been seeing temps at 100 without the "feels like" adjustment here. Brutal here, but thankfully no losses so far

Your chicks are acting normal. Birds are pretty low on the food chain and get nervous when anything comes at them from above. I like to start out handling them in the evening when they are a little sleepy. I take them down from the roost for a few minutes. I have found the "judges hold" to be...

I know that feeling. Year of the Cock at my house too. Up to my ears in sparring boys!!

Did you know that quail can be eaten by people who have Chicken allergies. I think the Texas A&M was developed as a lighter meat, full breasted meat quail. the regular cortunix is fine also. The A&M was bred from cortunix. Easy and quick to process also!!

EEs are a mixed breed chicken, anything can pop up. I have had EEs with feathered legs, toes. Right now I have some lovely bantam EEs that are from Ameraucana roo x Blue Laced Red Wyandotte and they have rose combs. I think they are beautiful!

The Ameraucana is carefully bred to meet a Standard of Perfection that is very specific about body type, size, skin color, muffs, beard and feather color. Only 8 colors are accepted in the Standard. With the exception of Blue, which has unique genetic make up, each color should only be bred...

Gosh he is pretty, wish I had more room. Have to set up a play pen in the living room now for my new Baby Blehm Lavender Banties. Soon the house will be full of chick dust again!!

Snow Bath??

Some do and others do not. Several of my original EE developed the beard and muffs quite late, they had just started laying when the beard and muffs started coming in. Now they are very full. I suspect that may be the case with some of these. Cock came out of blue egg and some of these came out...

My EE bantams went out to play today

I am anxious to see how these chicks grow and feather out. Crosses are always interesting.

They are athletic, acrobatic and escape artists too. These two babies were from LF hens and little bantam Wheaten Americana. He likes the big girls for sure

New EE babies today!!

Thank you. Those are nice looking girls. It will be fun to see what I get from them.