The Olive-Egger thread!

[JamesA]

OK I am wanting a nice looking olive egger and came up with this idea even though what will be the start of my project are only chicks right now.I am going to use true wheaton ameraucana hens and a wheaton marans roo.What do you think? I am hoping the pullets will breed to be a true cream color like both the americana and the marans.

 

[astylishgirl]

Fabulous! I am trying to work on getting as many good colored eggs as possible.

 

[onthespot]

That sounds like a great project JamesA. You will have to post pics of the results.

On another note, I did something I have never done today. I had a dozen beutiful olive eggs I was going to post for sale tomorrow but I was out of eggs and needed to feed some baby animals and I just up and hard boiled the whole carton full!!! Does that make me a bad person? LOL. Sometimes it is good to remind myself that eggs are for eating, not always for hatching or selling or just looking at.

 

[Birch Run Farm]

These 10 week old girls should produce some dark olive eggs. They are ameraucana X black copper and have pea combs. Both have feathered shanks and nice beards and muffs too!

A black and copper' pullet.

And her sister, a 'blue copper', look at her lacing!

 

[Puddle Foot Farm]

My eggs that are in the incubator should be Olive Eggers. They came from one of my EE hens and my Welsummer roo. I'm so lucky I got the eggs in the 'bator when I did, 'cause the other day Rooster Red, my loving Welsummer, disappeared from the coop. The day after that, my silkie decided to go broody, so I have a double shot at getting not only his offspring, but some hopefully wonderful Olive Eggers.

Just seeing all these pics of them make me giddy!

Question, do olive eggs happen with brown egg roosters over VERY blue egg Ameraucanas?

 

[happyhensny]

Isn't it just beautiful how all the chickens, hens & roos, all contribute to the fantastic and amazing variety of color birds and eggs that we all get! I think I will go give my hens and roo a hug just to say "thanks"

 

[enola]

If you breed a rooster from a breed of DARK brown eggs to a hen that lays a blue egg you 'should' get an olive colored egg laying pullet. That is if you get any pullets !

 

[6littlechickies]

I just hatched 6 EE/Buckeye crosses. I'm hoping for olive eggs. Mom's are the EE's, dad is the Buckeye (Brutus).
None have green legs and too early to see combs, right now just crossing fingers for pullets! Then I'll worry about color.

Just hatched on Mother's day so we've got a ways to go.

 

[ruth]

I got my first olive egg today.

The young mama is a cross between a blue EE hen that lives with my Black Copper Marans and a Black Copper roo. I have two "blues" in the pen so I'm not sure which one laid the egg today. One has the copper neck and one doesn't.

There's a funny story about the blue EE that lives with my breeder flock of B.C. Marans. When they were all young and still freeranging she started hanging out with them. I guess she took a strong liking, some would say "love" for one of the two roos because when we built the breeder pen/run/coop and put the B.C. Marans in it, we left her out. A day or so later she had managed to scale a 6 foot fence and was in with them again. I caught her and put her out. Next day she was back again so I decided to let her stay. She lays a large, pretty blue/green egg and I had read about olive eggs and Blue Copper Marans so I started incubating her eggs. I've gotten some beautiful blue coppers from her and now, finally, they have started laying. I would love to set more of her eggs but all the Black Copper hens seem to be really jealous of her because she seems to be the roos favorite and was the first to lose all her back feathers. Anyway, the other hens now wait for her to lay an egg, chase her off the nest, and break and eat the egg - all the while running all over the run with it screaming like crazy. So I haven't been able to get any eggs lately.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! I just called the eggs 'muddy green', but I have bantam Naked Neck 'olive-eggers' --- yaay!

Lisa