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@elliesaurus, If you have room for them, I personally like having weird shades of gray-green along with olive. Some of my more interesting eggs came from more unpredictable crosses. If you are hoping for olive, but will be relatively happy with green, you are all set!

Thank you for the kind comments. This was for a gallery fundraiser, and we were supplied with a 6" square of smooth plywood to create whatever we wanted. I painted the plywood with black acrylic paint. The pieces were added with plain old Elmer's glue, which I painted on in small sections with a...

Yes, I did peel the membrane off the inside on the left side of the photo (to reveal the olive color). You have a good memory Ron. I checked and it was three years ago that I posted this! Back then you suggested it could be a thin-shelled egg (as in, the inner blue she'll never formed). It...

No, I can't be entirely sure. My original Olive egger was a cross between an EE roo and a Welsummer hen. She lays a grayish olive egg. The EE roo got replaced with an OE roo (Marans X Ameraucana) that I purchased elsewhere. I started crossing him with the gray-laying hen and got all kinds of...

I took this photo a while back because I was surprised by the color inside:

For some reason, that happens to me almost every year :rolleyes:

Thanks for your help. I'll look more closely for wattles. I should have mentioned that the photo of the first chick with three rows on his comb was taken a couple weeks ago, - he's much redder now. The questionable chick, which I'm reluctantly accepting as male, had a very pale comb for a...

Thanks for the replies. No wattles on either bird yet, so I guess time will tell. I would be so happy if one of the three turns out to be a pullet. For some reason, I've had a run of heavily male hatches.

I hatched three olive eggers that I think are all boys, but one I'm not positive. This guy, and one of the others, has three distinct rows on his comb, so I'm sure they are cockerels. The chick below sort of has three rows. Do you think there is any hope for a pullet? They are the same cross...

I crossed a golden cuckoo Marans with a wheaten Ameraucana. All three resulting OE hens have kind of a golden cuckoo look, with some barring and pale gold on their necks, and all three lay a green/olive egg. Now I've crossed these OEs with a lavender Ameraucana. I hatched 3 eggs. Two chicks...

The lavender Ameraucana is definitely pure, so I am hopeful for good results. I'll know what they lay in about 6 months, assuming some pullets hatch!

Perhaps. I've never seen a legbar, so I'll take your word for it! :)

Thank you for the replies. I'd like to have a few more blue, or even blue-green layers. I only want to do a small hatch this year, and while I have a few lavender Ameraucana hens, I've been inbreeding them for a while and they did not hatch that well last year. The OEs in that pen are...

I have some OEs that are a cross between a golden cuckoo Marans and a Wheaten Ameraucana and they lay a nice olive green. I'm thinking of crossing these OEs with a lavender Ameraucana. Am I correct in thinking that half of the offspring would be blue layers, and half lighter green, or is it...

Pretty egg. Congrats!

Unless you don't have space, I would go ahead and try it. My original EE rooster X Welsummer hen made a very interesting egg color, kind of gray. I crossed this "OE" hen (her egg was not all that olive) back to an OE rooster and got all kinds of interesting shades. Some did lay brown, but it...

Nice eggs,@aart! Glad you were mistaken.

Beautiful birds!

The My Pet Chicken option would depend on a variety of factors. You are really paying for 3 things, -sexing, instant gratification, and convenience. It may be expensive, but by the time you get some eggs and hatch them, and separate and grow out the roosters, it doesn't seem like such a bad...

Thanks! @Gentry, the third from left on the bottom was a cross between an EE roo (unknown hatchery background) and a Welsummer hen. Most of my olive eggs come from a cross between her, and an OE roo (Marans x Ameraucana).