The Olive-Egger thread! - Page 3

Oh cool I'm not the only one with olive eggs.  I'll have to get pic tomorrow.  I crossed an EEer roo with a red sexlink.  I was trying for a higher producing green egg layer and she started early to lay and lays nearly everyday.  I also crossed a Black Sexlink with a Blue amercauna Roo and I'm getting really cool teal colored eggs.

So Patty - Here are my choices to start with and what do you recommend on the first lines for an Olive Egger project.

I have the Black Copper Marans.  1 Rooster - 4 Hens. 

I have one EE hen that lays a large green egg.

I have one Blue Ameraucana that lays a medium sized Blue egg.

My other EE pullets are too young to tell what they are laying yet? 

Which hen should I breed with the BC Marans Rooster.

I also have a Beautiful Blue Ameraucana Rooster, and an Easter Egger Rooster....I could put them over any hen you recommend as well.

Tina/tfpets

onthespot
Today 10:35 pm that is exactly what you do. I don't think you need to cross back for blue egg gene ever again, once you have it. Theoretically you could have birds that look exactly like BCM but pea combed that would lay very dark olive eggs after a few generations crossing back on dark egg lines.

What a bummer.  My rooster is a  Wheaten Ameraucana.  I have a Maran/Ameraucana egg due to hatch Friday.  Hoping for pretty things.  Might have to talk the DH into another roo.

OMG YAY!!!


I will be jumping this bandwagon sooon!!!

I'm getting

Marans over EE
and Marans over Orps
I'm breeding for pure Ameraucanas
May be getting some pure marans
annnnd I also have some EEs

!!!!

Thanks for your help.

I will be putting my Green egg layer in with the CBM's at least, I'll do that tomorrow!
Tina

Bleh.  I'm not so much into the olive eggs, but I had bought some EE from a guy and he had several barred EE-dominque pullets.  He said that the beard/ pea comb he had found to be not only an indicator of the blue egg gene but also a sex-link, that all the bearded barred chicks would be pullets.  Well, out of the four I got one ended up a roo after all.  They were all very similar in type, though; all had muffs, beards, and pea combs and the barring.  I think he used an EE roo on dominique hens.  Unfortunately, all those hens I had from hen were lost in the great weasel raid back in October. 

I'm a little confused on how the blue gene is passed down. I'm trying to figure it out before my chicks are all grown up. I have a various bunch of EEs, 2 bc marans that I think are both boys (one with feathered legs, one without), a pair of cuckoo marans. Does it make a difference as to whether the chicken with the blue gene is the rooster or the hen? If the chicken hatches out of a blue/green egg and has a straight comb does it carry any part of the blue gene that it can pass on?? For example, I have a chick that hatched from a blue egg who's father is a blue rock and the mother is a blue aracauna. It has a straight comb. Is it possible for it to have offspring that lay blue/green eggs?? Does anyone know of a chart that shows how the inheritance of the blue gene works? Thanks!!