The Olive-Egger thread!

[tfpets]

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Yes, I would love to see the "next generation" FROM the olive eggs...your eggs are such a beautiful deep Olive color....I wondered what color eggs the resulting chicks that hatch out of the olive eggs would lay? I wonder how dark green can get? And what you breed together to continue the correct hue, or does it ultimately revert to brown? Are you keeping the Pea Comb chicks as the layers? Cant wait to follow your crosses to see what happens!

Of course, green is cool, but I really really want YELLOW. Have pink, brown, white, occasional purplish, some spots, never seen stripes yet, but I dream about YELLOW! I've heard there are EE's that lay them too!

Thanks for the pics, beautiful!
Tina

 

[kathyinmo]

Wynette has some 2nd generation Olive Eggers. I will PM her, and maybe she has pictures.

 

[FortWorthChicks]

 

[sonew123]

Now I have a question too--I have olive eggs in fact I have 4 that hatched today-I plan on mating them back to eachother--will this result in olive egger producers???

 

[Wynette]

Thanks, Kathyinmo, for alerting me to this thread. I just LOVE my Olive Eggers! It may sound crazy, but I think their eggs are prettier than my Marans, who lay a pretty dark egg!

My first generation olive eggers lay a light to medium olive egg. Here is one alongside a Silver Penciled Plymouth Rock egg:

I have three 2nd generation olive egger pullets that just turned 18 weeks yesterday; they "should" day a medium to dark olive colored egg, and in a few weeks, I'll be putting them in with my French Copper Black Marans - the roo from this pen was hatched for a true "8" egg, so the female offspring, I would think would lay an extremely dark olive egg. I can't wait to see what color the eggs are from these three ladies...if they already are quite dark olive, I may not put them in with the Marans, I'd just breed more of them from the 1st gen ladies to get more.

I'll hang onto this thread & post pics of the 2nd gen. eggs as soon as they begin!

Oh, here are some very recent pics of the one I think it the prettiest (2nd gen girl). I took this first one from the back so you could see the variation in blue coloring to her feathers:

And here's her face. Not sure how she did it, but she chipped the end of her beak off!

 

[shelleyb1969]

Very pretty olive egger, Wynette!

 

[sonew123]

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anyone?

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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That's going to depend a bit on who the roo was, and what hatched out. Do they have pea combs?

Mating OE roo to OE hen will give you a majority OE babies.

Unless each parent has two copies of the blue gene, you will still get some (about 25%) brown egg layers (with straight combs most likely) mixed in.

 

[sonew123]

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That's going to depend a bit on who the roo was, and what hatched out. Do they have pea combs?

Mating OE roo to OE hen will give you a majority OE babies.

Unless each parent has two copies of the blue gene, you will still get some (about 25%) brown egg layers (with straight combs most likely) mixed in.

hmmm Im a bit confused--please excuse my ignorance-Old english is an OE right? Ill check the 4 chicks for what kind of comb they have...Oh the mom has a pea comb-the dad has a comb that has 3 different sides to it-Ill try and post a picture-I forgot the name of it?

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

OOPS!

My friend and I call Olive Eggers OE's. But yes, OE is Old English. Sorry. I meant Olive Egger where I wrote OE in that last post.