Green Egg Envy: Our attempts at breeding our own olive eggers!

venymae said:

Green Eggs are HERE!​

Well we finally have most of our first generation of green eggers starting to lay. After culling the roosters, we have 4 layers, and 3 are laying regularly now! Much like their mothers, who had differing shades of brown eggs, the girls have differing shades of green, ranging from a light bluish olive green, to a nice solid olive green. Here they are pictured between an EE egg and a Production Red egg.

Easter Egger, Green Egger 1, Green Egger 2, Green Egger 3, Production Red
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As you can see they are definitely more green than an Easter Egger, but only one is really the desired dark green. The second and third batches of this particular mix of Green Eggers went to my father and neighbors respectively. They will not lay for a while still, but when they do I will post pictures.


On a fun note, I put in a batch of Crested Cream Legbar x Production Red to see what kind of green THEY would make, but only 2 hatched (UGH!) and the rooster had to go before the city got mad so we have no more eggs to hatch (it's been 4+weeks). Lets hope they are hens!

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venymae said:

Green Eggs are HERE!​

Well we finally have most of our first generation of green eggers starting to lay. After culling the roosters, we have 4 layers, and 3 are laying regularly now! Much like their mothers, who had differing shades of brown eggs, the girls have differing shades of green, ranging from a light bluish olive green, to a nice solid olive green. Here they are pictured between an EE egg and a Production Red egg.

Easter Egger, Green Egger 1, Green Egger 2, Green Egger 3, Production Red
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As you can see they are definitely more green than an Easter Egger, but only one is really the desired dark green. The second and third batches of this particular mix of Green Eggers went to my father and neighbors respectively. They will not lay for a while still, but when they do I will post pictures.


On a fun note, I put in a batch of Crested Cream Legbar x Production Red to see what kind of green THEY would make, but only 2 hatched (UGH!) and the rooster had to go before the city got mad so we have no more eggs to hatch (it's been 4+weeks). Lets hope they are hens!

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Cheep N Peep said:

Awesome! Hoping your new chicks are girls!

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venymae said:

Thanks for Following along Everyone! All the hens that hatched from this experiment ended up laying wonderful green eggs! I would call this a marvelous success!
THE END!​

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