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post #3711 of 5608
3/10/12 at 8:36am


Wow! I love these!

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I'd normally ask how too, but, it happens. Now as for their avatar I don't think so with them, but that's a good representation (minus white) of what I mean.

 

I hope Phage doesn't mind I post this, this is his photo of an array of eggs one OE pullet laid, hatched from my F1 breeding. Crazy.

 

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post #3712 of 5608
3/10/12 at 8:40am

Is anyone making bantam olive eggers?  Please post the recipe as I have come the conclusion I must have some olive eggs. love.gif

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post #3713 of 5608
3/10/12 at 8:47am
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lol Not with Olive Eggers!!

I have two different people who bought only ONE F1 hen from me, the rest of their birds lay brown or white eggs, and that one hen can lay anything from a normal olive egg to a greenish light blueish egg to a half-and-half or even a speckled, splotchy type, or even an olive with a gray haze over it.

It is true with most others yes but F1 Olive Eggers I've seen some crazy stuff.

FYI to folk - Your Olive Eggers don't have tufts unless you actually bred tufted Araucanas in there somewhere wink.png


Concerning charts and the sort, I actually made that one, don't have a bigger size unless the demand calls for it. Any other charts are this one, basically gives a good idea of the difference between an Easter Egger (homemade) and an Olive Egger, plus common second gen OE's.

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Answering an earlier question, Lav x BCM = black chicks with white bellies, they'll grow up to be black birds with tiny to no reddish leakage, possible golden or silver leakage too, birds should but not always will be bearded, and will have very sparse to moderate leg feathering. Same goes for Black Am x BCM.
On the second picture in order to get that last color egg. Who are the chicks bred back to?

 

 

  

 

 

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post #3714 of 5608
3/10/12 at 8:53am

The lines show - The F1 is bred back to the dark layer (Marans or similar)

Araucanas, Polish, Shamos

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Araucanas, Polish, Shamos

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post #3715 of 5608
3/10/12 at 9:18am
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Originally Posted by Illia View Post

I'd normally ask how too, but, it happens. Now as for their avatar I don't think so with them, but that's a good representation (minus white) of what I mean.

 

I hope Phage doesn't mind I post this, this is his photo of an array of eggs one OE pullet laid, hatched from my F1 breeding. Crazy.

 

eggs



Get outta town!! That is totally amazing...

 

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post #3716 of 5608
3/10/12 at 9:29am
That's what I figured, Just wasn't sure. I can't wait to see what I get from my EE's and my FCBM. He just recently started taking over my flock, he's still scared of my D'Duccle roo's. I can't hatch any eggs until my breeding coop is done so I came remove the mean little D'Uccle . He may just end up dog food if goes after me one more time. So if a D'Uccle was attempting to mate with the EE's and the Marans did complete, will I get crazy D'Uccle mixes or will it be the last roo? I'm not going to hatch yet. Just wanting to know if anyone knows how that works. Thank you Michele

 

 

  

 

 

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post #3717 of 5608
3/10/12 at 11:54am

I learned it as french coppered black, but perhaps it was incorrect.  It is from the Marans article on feathersite.

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This breed, which originated in western France in the town of Marans, is best known for its dark chocolate colored eggs. It is a fast grower and does well in damp areas, having been developed in a marshy portion of France. The original French birds have feathered legs, but this characteristic has been bred out of the British and many American lines. The French recognize 8 varieties: 1. Silver Cuckoo, 2. Golden Cuckoo, 3. White, 4. Coppered Black, 5. Black, 6. Wheat, 7. Black-tailed Fawn, and 8. Ermine; they are considering adding the Silvered Black (created since 1932 and remarkable for the color and spherical form of its eggs). In the Cuckoo Marans, males are lighter in color than females--it is said to be possible to color sex them even as chicks with pretty good accuracy. I've never seen or heard about the other varieties.

 



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French Black Copper Marans, and just an FYI... OE we understand you but the rest of BYC will think you are talking about Old English game birds.



 

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Breeding Black Javas...Tending a constantly changing group of Ameracaunas, Olive Eggers, EEs, FCBMs & Brown Leghorns
See a slideshow of my Black Javas here: https://picasaweb.google.com/113255570967966561169/BlackJavas#slideshow/5450581670922747458

My chicken keeping blog! http://charmed-life-chickens.blogspot.com/2012/01/olive-eggs-at-long-last.html

 

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post #3718 of 5608
3/10/12 at 11:58am

I think I forgot to answer the original question...it was my avatar in question.  Yes, all the olives came from my first OE girl, Olive.  The whites are from my brown leghorns to show the variation and depth of color.  Those were her first 16 or whatever eggs over something like 19 days.
 

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I'd normally ask how too, but, it happens. Now as for their avatar I don't think so with them, but that's a good representation (minus white) of what I mean.

 

I hope Phage doesn't mind I post this, this is his photo of an array of eggs one OE pullet laid, hatched from my F1 breeding. Crazy.

 

eggs



 

joy
Breeding Black Javas...Tending a constantly changing group of Ameracaunas, Olive Eggers, EEs, FCBMs & Brown Leghorns
See a slideshow of my Black Javas here: https://picasaweb.google.com/113255570967966561169/BlackJavas#slideshow/5450581670922747458

My chicken keeping blog! http://charmed-life-chickens.blogspot.com/2012/01/olive-eggs-at-long-last.html

 

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joy
Breeding Black Javas...Tending a constantly changing group of Ameracaunas, Olive Eggers, EEs, FCBMs & Brown Leghorns
See a slideshow of my Black Javas here: https://picasaweb.google.com/113255570967966561169/BlackJavas#slideshow/5450581670922747458

My chicken keeping blog! http://charmed-life-chickens.blogspot.com/2012/01/olive-eggs-at-long-last.html

 

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post #3719 of 5608
3/10/12 at 5:16pm
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The color of egg that a hen lays does not change. It can vary in intensity but it they don't lay different colors different days.


lol Not with Olive Eggers!!

 

I have two different people who bought only ONE F1 hen from me, the rest of their birds lay brown or white eggs, and that one hen can lay anything from a normal olive egg to a greenish light blueish egg to a half-and-half or even a speckled, splotchy type, or even an olive with a gray haze over it.

 

It is true with most others yes but F1 Olive Eggers I've seen some crazy stuff.

 

FYI to folk - Your Olive Eggers don't have tufts unless you actually bred tufted Araucanas in there somewhere wink.png

 

 

Concerning charts and the sort, I actually made that one, don't have a bigger size unless the demand calls for it. Any other charts are this one, basically gives a good idea of the difference between an Easter Egger (homemade) and an Olive Egger, plus common second gen OE's.

 

oechart

 

 

 

 

Answering an earlier question, Lav x BCM = black chicks with white bellies, they'll grow up to be black birds with tiny to no reddish leakage, possible golden or silver leakage too, birds should but not always will be bearded, and will have very sparse to moderate leg feathering. Same goes for Black Am x BCM.


The same hen will lay different color eggs?  I mean I understand speckles and intensity being different... but a really different color egg?  How is that possible?  The avatar in question has greens, blues, and browns.  How?

 



I have a few that lay different colors on different days. Sometimes they are speckled, sometimes not- all depends on how the red "paint" layer gets put on that day. Its the same with marans and welsummers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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post #3720 of 5608
3/11/12 at 6:56am
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FYI to folk - Your Olive Eggers don't have tufts unless you actually bred tufted Araucanas in there somewhere wink.png

 

Thanks Illia. Still new to the chickens terms. Would their puffy cheeks be muffs instead?

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Everybody needs a little chicken therapy in their lives!

Naked Necks, Lavender Orpingtons, Cream Legbars, FBCM, Cuckoo Marans, Barnevelders, Ameracuanas and Olive Eggers.

 

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