The Olive-Egger thread! - Page 412

How pretty!  Mine are still a dream.

Thank you.   I don't know what I was talking about regarding the splash either, except that someone had mentioned the Ameracauna crosses could be sexed earlier, not at hatch specifically.  Ah well.  New thought. Welsummers can be sexed at hatch fairly reliably as the girls have eyeliner.  If the chicks carried the Welsummer coloring WITH a pea comb, that would be ideal.  I'm so knew I have trouble distinguishing a pea comb.  I know my Ameracauna's seem to pretty much have no comb at all.  The one's I believe are roosters seem to be just a tiny bit larger and reddening a bit more and the birds are larger.  My Welsummers may be better layers than my BCM too so that could be advantageous.

 KYTinpusher. too much breeding back to a dark egg layer will make a more khaki egg, not olive green, especially third generation.  Someone posted this.  It was very helpful to me.  I think I like the OE to ameraucana again or other blue egg layer. 

 

 

 

Lovely pale olive. Beautiful.

So pretty. Love olive eggs!

Thank you all for your comments and advice! After reading through it, I believe I have a plan. I will start by breeding my pullet to my BCM roo to darken the olive. My pullet and her brothers are F1 - BCM or Black Marans hens to an EE roo. I got the hatching eggs from another BYC member so I am not positive on the parentage. Then I will put the F2 pullets back with one of my F1 roosters. After I get enough chicks from the OExBCM cross, I will put her with her brothers (one at a time, of course) just to see what I get. The black/gold roo is absolutely gorgeous - very iridescent in the sun - so I think the two blacks would hopefully have gorgeous babies.

 

SOunds like you have a plan! FYI--black marans are very rare. Mostly likely a BCM =See if neck coloring develops in the hens, boys of course get a whole lot more copper brown than just the hackles. THe colors are fun non the less, I loved picking up the dozen greens and olives today. Pretty.

I'm new to this whole olive egg thing.  I bought a couple "olive egger" pullets, but I'm not sure if I will get olive eggs or not.  I have a thread about with pics already posted, so if someone could read the thread and give me their thoughts?  http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/674939/olive-egger-pullets-pic-heavy/10

 

Thanks so much! 

I bred my BCM roo to my EE hens and only hatched the blue/green eggs. Out of seven chicks that hatched....EVERY chick is black! 

NONE of my EE hens are black, so does that mean that the roo is always going to produce black chicks?  


 

What color are they?... the hens????