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  1. Peach2u

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I have offspring from Splash Maran over Ameracauna. Mostly blue a couple black 1 oe 2 splash. Some have beards others don't some have feathered shanks, others don't. All where large body birds. Chicks from that cross Same chicks as 2-3 months old. Still too young to free range"Hawk bait" A...
  2. Peach2u

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    http://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/2012/07/01/gms1-genetics-of-egg-color/ This is a quick summary of lobes and egg color
  3. Peach2u

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    No his ears not feathers. They are fleshy lobes on the side of the head. Some chickens have huge ones other are just holes in thier head covered in feather. I have found the blue lobes are blue egg layers. I haven't gotten that one wrong yet. When crossing breeds like I have. The 4th generation...
  4. Peach2u

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    congrats
  5. Peach2u

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    He's hansome! Are his ears blue? It's hard to tell from pix. Blue ears and pea combs are linked to blue egg gene. I have a hen who has a pea comb morphed with white ears and lays brown eggs. Someone forgot to tell her she was suppose to lay green eggs
  6. Peach2u

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I used a splash maran roo over my girls one year. All the offspring came out blue ,black and splash! He was such a loving father and the hens loved him. However, he hated everything else. He would go out of his way to attack us. He was huge. You could her him running up behind you with his heavy...
  7. Peach2u

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    My first hatch is over. I started out with 48 EE and OE eggs. My first chick came out on the 19th day. Then the others came out on the 20th-22nd day. I had 4 zip or put holes in the shells but not make it out on day 20. Day 22 The last 4 where doing the same peeping but couldn't get out of the...
  8. Peach2u

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    First peep!
  9. Peach2u

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I have my OE's on lock down! It's my first incubator trial. So, my hopes are not high. I been fighting with the humidity. The first 18 days it was 47-53% now on lock down it is at 60-62%. I think it is too low, but I have filled all the water trays under it. I hate to open it again just to add a...
  10. Peach2u

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I just set my first incubator eggs today. I'm hoping for a good Mother's day hatch. I'm new to incubators so I don't know how it will go. I have BCM and Americana coverered by a F1 OE roo {BbCM x Americana} and an Americana Roo over Welsummer and Olive eggers. Olive egger that will lay shades...
  11. Peach2u

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Ah Thank you. I think it was a raccoon maybe an opossum. What ever it was climbed up the closet wall. Up the 55 gal barrel then a 4' wall. From there it chewed the chicken wire that was above the coop and down it went. It took the rooster out the same way. What a mess. I was heart broken. I lost...
  12. Peach2u

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I found a good home for him. A friend of my cousin lost her roo over the weekend he was 8 years old. Rusty will have his own girls and will be pampered LOL. I haven't been on the OE chat much. I lost 2 years of breeding over the winter. I forgot to close the coop up one night. Came out the...
  13. Peach2u

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Rusty needs a new home! He was hatched OCT 2013. He is cream with red wing patched and red mixed with cream head. He has blue coming into his tail. Rusty is just learning to crow and sounds like someone is chocking him as he crows. His dad is an F1 OE {blue maran+American} mom an Americana. He...
  14. Peach2u

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Today is hatch day! I love hatch day. My BCM is sitting on 12 eggs. Roo is OEF1 and I put BCM eggs and light green eggs under her. Last night while locking up the pens I heard a peep. I had an early bird sitting on top of mom. She's a first time mom so I hope she does well.
  15. Peach2u

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I use straw or hay. What ever is in season. Most of the time I just buy the square bales from local farmers. They are $4 per bale from a farm up the road. However I did get a bale from him in the fall that had blackberry stems in it. That was fun and made me want to wear gloves the next time...
  16. Peach2u

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    nice color
  17. Peach2u

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Not a lot you can do to keep the egg color bright as the hen's laying season fades. Take solace after they stop laying to molt, they will be bright again. These are from my F1 and F2 OE. I have a couple of F2's that are laying brown eggs. This is from all the girls. Very pale blue are from my...
  18. Peach2u

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    BCM is a dominate black feather creator. My first year using a Splash maran roo over my EE's all my hatches where blue. The next 2 year I used a blue copper maran over my OE and EE'. The babies where black,blue and splash. This year I used a roo from the splash maran roo over EE. He is blue in...
  19. Peach2u

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Thanks for the positive comments on my speckled green eggs. Sorry for the delay. I was in the Smokies unplugged for a week. I am going to try to repeat that hen. I have put a first gen OE roo over 1st,2nd,3rd OE and blue eggers. My broody's are doing an ok job this year.. I have 18 hens and 1...
  20. Peach2u

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I agree. She has nice round feathers. I have a girl that looks like her named Olive-Ann. She was from a blue copper maran roo over EE. She lays a dark olive egg. If this was a boy at this age he would have had a lot of long saddle feathers by now not the fluffy round ones at the base of the tail ;-)
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