The Olive-Egger thread!

[freenerik]

Thank you

 

[mckendall]

I just purchased 6 cream legbar maran cross chicks. I hope to get 3 hens out of the batch but time will tell how we did on that draw. I am adding on to my original coop for more room. Will these ladies start laying at 20 weeks? I haven't found much written on the legbars and have mostly heritage breeds. Hopefully I will be getting some olive eggs this year!!

 

[aart]

I just purchased 6 cream legbar maran cross chicks. I hope to get 3 hens out of the batch but time will tell how we did on that draw. I am adding on to my original coop for more room. Will these ladies start laying at 20 weeks? I haven't found much written on the legbars and have mostly heritage breeds. Hopefully I will be getting some olive eggs this year!!

Not sure about CLB, but Marans are often later layers.
Average for most breeds is 18-26 weeks.....Marans may take much longer to start up.
Only time will tell.

 

[mckendall]

Well I am at no shortage of eggs so we can wait it out. And hopefully they will start around July. Thank you

 

[aart]

Well I am at no shortage of eggs so we can wait it out. And hopefully they will start around July. Thank you

Yeah.....but its always hard to wait and see what the crosses will lay!

 

[dekel18042]

I just purchased 6 cream legbar maran cross chicks. I hope to get 3 hens out of the batch but time will tell how we did on that draw. I am adding on to my original coop for more room. Will these ladies start laying at 20 weeks? I haven't found much written on the legbars and have mostly heritage breeds. Hopefully I will be getting some olive eggs this year!!

My BCM's all started laying at 6 months old or slightly later but when I crossed them with my cream legbar roo, the daughters all started laying at 5 months. Interestingly so did his daughters with other breeds including welsummer (And my welsummers started laying really late, over 8 months) and some mixes.
After breeding for several years I do think the roosters have a pretty big influence on their daughters' laying ability.

 

[mckendall]

Interesting I wonder if it's the breed of the roo or the indidual roo in this case?

 

[theceltichorse]

Baby number one (F3 Olive Egger)
02/17/2017
Dark grey/green egg lower left corner in picture #1
Eggs purchased via BYC auction from @GardenWren

 

[Catandherchicks]

Baby number one (F3 Olive Egger)
02/17/2017
Dark grey/green egg lower left corner in picture #1
Eggs purchased via BYC auction from @GardenWren

Wow! Nice mix of pretty eggs. Good luck on your hatch.

 

[theceltichorse]

Wow! Nice mix of pretty eggs. Good luck on your hatch.

Thank you!