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  1. Heron's Nest Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I love when the chicks are tiny like that! Those look lovely all lined up together. We have an egg business. It is my goal to breed another 30 olive eggers so that I can have enough hens to put 1 olive egg in each dozen I sell. I had a power outage this last year when I had $200 in eggs in...
  2. Heron's Nest Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    OUCH!!!!! My largest so far has been 88g
  3. Heron's Nest Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Wow! Beautiful. You have all the fun stuff going on here! Olive eggs, a crest, poofy cheeks...
  4. Heron's Nest Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Remember that brown isn't a true color but a hemoglobin coating on the egg. White is no color and blue is a shell color. So provided you get a copy of both genes in there you get a blue egg with a brown coating that makes it different shades of "green". I just keep breeding my best green...
  5. Heron's Nest Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Someone sent me this pic today of the egg her OE hen I sold her laid.
  6. Heron's Nest Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

  7. Heron's Nest Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I have a 3rd generation eggs that have just begun laying and some of them are amazing. I can't wit to go one more generation to get it just a little darker. Waiting for a few months as they are small right now. Unfortunately at this point I can't see through them when cadleing. So it will be...
  8. Heron's Nest Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Congrats! Siper exciting. Happy Hatching!
  9. Heron's Nest Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Those birds look fun! I love the crest and there is a lot going on in the feathers. Subtle but beautiful. Fun pics. I love hatching although I am winding down. I am determined not to hatch in July and August, but don't hold me to it! At that point we will have so much going on on the farm...
  10. Heron's Nest Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I say yes, from the top pic. Anyone else?
  11. Heron's Nest Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Yours appears to be staying really stiff. Let us know if it softens up after being in there after this first hatch as that is what happened with mine. Not a big deal, but I really loved the crisp lines I had at first hatch! Went to lockdown today. On third candle I noticed one trying to...
  12. Heron's Nest Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Don't you mean olivey?
  13. Heron's Nest Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Super cute! She was obviously a cross of of a blue layer over a brown. Is the egg on the left the same as the pic on the right? It looks more blue there. Maybe just a recessive O gene sneaking though?
  14. Heron's Nest Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    UGH! I don't have a solid roo. I am just impatient. I have the beginnings of some great lines. I am just waiting on my F3 hens to start laying to see if I have pure genetics, BUT autosexing would be nice for sales.
  15. Heron's Nest Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    So in the line of auto sexing. I have a few barred girls. I finally have a non barred Ameraucana male. If I cross these will I have auto sexed chicks? Fingers crossed!
  16. Heron's Nest Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I have a barred roo over a non barred hen?
  17. Heron's Nest Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I HOPE you are right! I have this theory that female chicks scratch more than males. Anyone else notice a correlation?
  18. Heron's Nest Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I just hatched an F1 (cuckoo maran x ameraucana) roo over my chocolate orpington hen. I did this because his sisters are from the same parents and they are both laying dark brown eggs. He has a pea comb and I was hoping that he has the blue gene in there. My question is: I got 2 chicks with...
  19. Heron's Nest Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Oh wow! I too am jealous. That is really beautiful!
  20. Heron's Nest Farm

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I say pullet.
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