I am offering an assorted Olive Egg Special to the highest bidder. To include at least 8 dark olive eggs, 6 EE eggs (from which the olive egg layers hatch), and 4 dark BCM eggs from my first-line of French BCMs.
The young pullets laying these dark olive eggs have an EE (mom) and pure BCM roo dad. I originally hatched several of the EE's eggs and the females vary in looks and the color of egg that they lay. 3 lay a dark olive, 1 lays a gray egg, and 1 lays a pink/purple egg. I've also been hatching the olive eggs and the chicks hatching appear to be sex-linked with the males looking like pure BCMs and the females being a blue, feather-legged bird and like their mothers, some have muffs, some don't, some are copper, some aren't.
This variety of eggs should get you a great start in breeding "true" olive eggers.
Here's a pic representing their best color - taken a couple of months ago:
Here's the basket of the actual eggs you will be getting (BCM eggs not shown - I'll include whichever darkest eggs are laid on shipping day):
Here's the hen that started it all. She lays the light blue/green eggs that I hatched my olive eggers from. She hadn't laid another egg in several months and after having been through a molt, she's finally laying again.
Here are some of the hens (her daughters) that are laying the olive eggs - each one different in looks:
And, here are some of the babies I've recently hatched from the olive eggs:
Here's one of the two main BCM roos that are daddy to all (possibly*):
*This flock freeranges so there is a possibility that some other breed of roo could have fertilized any of these eggs. So far I haven't found that to be the case since these two BCM roos do a great job of keeping their ladies to themselves and no other roo dares bother them - but you never know. So far, of all the olive eggs I've hatched, all chicks have had feathered legs.
The young pullets laying these dark olive eggs have an EE (mom) and pure BCM roo dad. I originally hatched several of the EE's eggs and the females vary in looks and the color of egg that they lay. 3 lay a dark olive, 1 lays a gray egg, and 1 lays a pink/purple egg. I've also been hatching the olive eggs and the chicks hatching appear to be sex-linked with the males looking like pure BCMs and the females being a blue, feather-legged bird and like their mothers, some have muffs, some don't, some are copper, some aren't.
This variety of eggs should get you a great start in breeding "true" olive eggers.
Here's a pic representing their best color - taken a couple of months ago:
Here's the basket of the actual eggs you will be getting (BCM eggs not shown - I'll include whichever darkest eggs are laid on shipping day):
Here's the hen that started it all. She lays the light blue/green eggs that I hatched my olive eggers from. She hadn't laid another egg in several months and after having been through a molt, she's finally laying again.
Here are some of the hens (her daughters) that are laying the olive eggs - each one different in looks:
And, here are some of the babies I've recently hatched from the olive eggs:
Here's one of the two main BCM roos that are daddy to all (possibly*):
*This flock freeranges so there is a possibility that some other breed of roo could have fertilized any of these eggs. So far I haven't found that to be the case since these two BCM roos do a great job of keeping their ladies to themselves and no other roo dares bother them - but you never know. So far, of all the olive eggs I've hatched, all chicks have had feathered legs.
