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  1. BeardedLadyFarm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Speaking of sexing early, I found a fun trick with my Wheaten OE's. They are from a Blue Wheaten Ameraucana rooster, and a Wheaten Marans hen. I was able to wing sex them at hatch. The boys had very little wing growth in the first few days, while the pullets had some wing growth at hatch, and...
  2. BeardedLadyFarm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: Fun! Make sure to do a sibling cross of those chicks, and show us the photos!
  3. BeardedLadyFarm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: Do you still have the Ameraucana x Leghorn? Do you have any pictures? I would LOVE to add a couple of those babies to my project. The pics posted a few posts up have dominant white. I get about 50% dominant white chicks right now and I love the color that bleeds in. I'd even buy or...
  4. BeardedLadyFarm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I haven't been on BYC for ages, since I've been in the process of moving from Philadelphia to a 110 acre farm in NY state! I can FINALLY have all the chickens, and ROOSTERS I want or need. My first order of business was making my Wheaten Olive Eggers. I was hoping to not hatch until spring, but...
  5. BeardedLadyFarm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: I don't think you're offending anyone. We all know that Olive Eggers are mutts as well, they just tend to lay darker green eggs that commonly seen from hatchery EE's. Any dark egg breed, and any blue/green egg layer will do!
  6. BeardedLadyFarm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: I guess my first question would be, do any DARK egged bantams exist? I've had bantam Welsummers, but they have light eggs. I know there are some bantam Cuckoo Marans out there, but I don't think they're dark egged either. Sign me up, if anyone has some! I have a gorgeous black bantam...
  7. BeardedLadyFarm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: They would most likely be green using your RIR. You need a Marans, Welsummer, Penedesenca, or other dark egg breed to get the olive eggs.
  8. BeardedLadyFarm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: They will likely lay green eggs, but not dark olive eggs, but should be pretty and productive nonetheless. Generally speaking an Olive Egger is a blue egg layer (Ameraucana, Araucana, EE) crossed with a dark brown egg layer (Marans, Welsummer, Penedesenca) Thanks I do have a BCM...
  9. BeardedLadyFarm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: They will likely lay green eggs, but not dark olive eggs, but should be pretty and productive nonetheless. Generally speaking an Olive Egger is a blue egg layer (Ameraucana, Araucana, EE) crossed with a dark brown egg layer (Marans, Welsummer, Penedesenca)
  10. BeardedLadyFarm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Chick #1 is from a Blue Wheaten Ameraucana cockerel, and a Black Copper Marans hen (carrying the wheaten gene, I'm guessing) She's about 10 days old, so we'll see what happens! her comb seems intermediate between pea and straight, so I hope she got the blue egg gene. The next batch are an...
  11. BeardedLadyFarm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: Pretty! I have one that I think will turn out similarly. I'll post her pic!
  12. BeardedLadyFarm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: You will likely get green eggs, but the dark olive eggs can only be "made" when using a dark brown egg layer (ie, Welsummer, Marans, etc) as one of the parents.
  13. BeardedLadyFarm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: Do you have any other Wheaten Olive Eggers? I've been wanting to try this for a while. By fall my Marans should be laying...
  14. BeardedLadyFarm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Well, speaking of super dark lines, I have about 7 Wheaten Marans boys that I hatched from eggs from Cree farms. I have no use from them, and those eggs were DARK! If anyone needs a new jolt of dark egg genetics, shoot me an email before I give them to someone who doesn't appreciate them...
  15. BeardedLadyFarm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: Assuming your Marans roo is from a dark egg line, then yes this would work. Assuming your EE's have pea combs (nearly all do) then select the chicks with pea combs to grow out. If you get any straight combs they will most likely be brown layers, and those will pea combs will likely be...
  16. BeardedLadyFarm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: Blue/Black/Splash genetics will hold true, regardless of breed. Sex linkage with barring only works with a solid rooster over a barred (cuckoo) hen, not the other way around. If you cross theses boys to solid hens, you will get barred and solid bird in both sexes.
  17. BeardedLadyFarm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: It is HIGHLY likely that they will lay brown eggs. There is a small chance that they will lay olive.
  18. BeardedLadyFarm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: Pretty color Muggs, I'm guessing it's actually a blue chick, but would be carrying the lavender gene. Unless your roo is carrying a lavender gene, which isn't likely. Regardless, save a pair of these split to lavender birds, and mate them together. THEN you'll get some real lavenders...
  19. BeardedLadyFarm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: Pretty color Muggs, I'm guessing it's actually a blue chick, but would be carrying the lavender gene. Unless your roo is carrying a lavender gene, which isn't likely. Regardless, save a pair of these split to lavender birds, and mate them together. THEN you'll get some real lavenders...
  20. BeardedLadyFarm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: Ah yes, I had heard this. I'll be going out there in the next couple of weeks, so maybe I can talk him out of a few eggs. Do we assume that this speckled trait would be passed onto Olive Eggers as well?
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