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  1. Alex15

    Growing My Olive Eggers

    These are the chicks at 6 weeks. Just about fully feathered and ready to move outside! I’m now certain of my boys and girls! Bluey: my pretty girl with her cute little crest! Queenie: also certain she’s a girl: Goldie: by far my biggest boy, while he protests when I seperate him, he...
  2. Alex15

    Growing My Olive Eggers

    So the chicks are now five weeks! I’m playing with them almost every day and they’re getting a lot more interactive and love jumping up on me. Im watching them a lot for roo signs. I’m sure Bluey, Queenie and Splodge are girls. Goldie surely is a rooster with her comb and pink wattles, but then...
  3. Alex15

    Growing My Olive Eggers

    So just separating from progress and thoughts, here’s some snaps from our week. I love how quickly they adapt to chicken nature, eg. I pop them down onto the grass at 3.5 wks and they start dust bathing! I’ve also seen them do the chirp and run thing when they find a treat, it’s just so cute. So...
  4. Alex15

    Growing My Olive Eggers

    A couple days late but these are the chicks at 4 weeks. Their 4th week of life has been exciting, they’ve moved into a mansion brooder with perches, they’ve had their first visit outside with dirt baths and enjoyed their first treats of cooked egg, yoghurt, lettuce and pear! They’re all getting...
  5. Alex15

    Growing My Olive Eggers

    I want more 😂
  6. Alex15

    Growing My Olive Eggers

    The chicks are now 3 weeks old! I left them with their grandparents for 5 nights while I went camping and I came back to some huge chicks! I can barely pick them up with one hand anymore. Bluey is a sweet little chick and appears to be getting a little crest (💕) Queenie is getting lots of...
  7. Alex15

    Growing My Olive Eggers

    the chickies are two weeks old today! Photo shoots are getting a little harder! Bluey Queenie Goldie: Splodge: Sparkles: Bear: Everyone’s feathering out nicely except Sparkles who is still tiny and feels so soft still! Based on him feathering so slowly I’m wondering if he is a little boy...
  8. Alex15

    Growing My Olive Eggers

    you’ll have to share a pic when they hatch! What breeds will your OE be? (As in its parents :p) it will be fun if it looks like either of mine! I really can’t wait to see how mine will end up!
  9. Alex15

    Growing My Olive Eggers

    So it’s now been a week and the little chicks are getting lots of feathers and also a bit crazier! They’ve looking up a lot lately so will prob start flying out of their box brooder in the coming days! Will need bring the wire in to cover them! Here they are in the same order as before. Bluey...
  10. Alex15

    Growing My Olive Eggers

    They’re 1 week old today so there will be an update tonight hopefully 😁
  11. Alex15

    Growing My Olive Eggers

    I recently got what should end up as 6 olive eggers from a lovely backyard breeder that separated eggs for me. 1 pen had a welsummer rooster over cream legbar hens and an olive egger hen (maran legbar cross). I got 1 blue legbar egg and 2 pale green eggs from the OE. 2nd pen had a cream legbar...
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