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  1. Fire Ant Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I suppose it's also possible that their laying/color hasn't settled down yet as well, I suppose (for me, these are first or second eggs for these girls). To add to the interest/complexity, in a different pen I have four pullets two weeks younger. They are all daughters of the same lavender...
  2. Fire Ant Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Not all are nice - among the others I have three Cream Legbar girls who don't have names. They just go by "The Three Witches". Evil little things... :rolleyes:
  3. Fire Ant Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Yeah, there are a bunch of brown egg color genes - heaven knows how many are involved here... But the girls are lovely and sweet (I need to get some pics), and I'm happy to have interesting eggs. :thumbsup
  4. Fire Ant Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I'm not sure who mom is, but all of the possible moms lay very dark eggs.... Weird, huh? Edit to add - one lays an egg that's darkest compared to the others, and smoothly dark. (I think it's the black copper marans). The blue copper marans eggs are also very dark, but a hair lighter, and are...
  5. Fire Ant Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    My two home grown "olive eggers" (lavender ameraucana x blue/black cooper marans) hatched this January are now both laying. Interesting - one is laying a spearmint-colored egg, one is laying a very dark olive egg. (Brown NN egg for comparison)
  6. Fire Ant Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Love these photos - she looks so philosophical!!!
  7. Fire Ant Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Sorry, I missed this before. Having had a lavender am chick and a splash marans chick at the same time, I also would think this would be splash. - Ant Farm
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

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    The Olive-Egger thread!

  10. Fire Ant Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    There aren't any grey eggs - it might be the photo. Can you count from the bottom or top which one you mean?
  11. Fire Ant Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Here are some of my eggs, with the very nice olive eggs from my OE in there. I just hatched nine OEs (4 Ameraucana x Marans and 5 Ameraucana x OE), because my Ameraucana rooster got killed - hope I get some pullets in the bunch!
  12. Fire Ant Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Thanks! Alas, all the blue egg layers are on strike at the moment, so I don't have the variety as much any more, but the OE and marans pullets are back to laying like champs! Wow! My OE lays smaller eggs, though she went into lay early and has laid very well and consistently (except for a break...
  13. Fire Ant Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

  14. Fire Ant Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I may be mistaken, but I don't think leg color has anything to do with it - it has its own separate genetics (which kind of give me a headache). I have read on the Eight Acres Site that while there are several breeds mixed in there (Welsummers and BCM), the source of the blue egg gene is...
  15. Fire Ant Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

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    The Olive-Egger thread!

  17. Fire Ant Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I was just going to say this - this looks like the legs of my yellow-legged girls once they're deep into their laying season...
  18. Fire Ant Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    So funny - folks who want blue eggs from them get green, folks who want green eggs from them get blue... - Ant Farm
  19. Fire Ant Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    You can just get a straight up cream legbar - many lay eggs that are more light green than blue... Nice birds, nice production. - Ant Farm
  20. Fire Ant Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Gosh - I wish you were closer, I'd take you up on that... - Ant Farm
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