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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    With the wheaten color if you breed to a cuckoo pattern or barred you will get crele pattern from some of the chicks. I used a blue cuckoo oe hen with a wheaten Marans rooster and the cockerel chicks carried the crele pattern. The copper roosters do look better , but if from same breed dings...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    nice eggs
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    hello I just wanted to share pictures of my JG X F2 OE 6 month olds. my breeders The Splash Rooster is being bred back to jg hens(3 from my old line) The laying pullets are bred to a blue egg gene rooster. the Blue/red rooster I'll bred to blrws (2) I'm getting olive eggs and...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Thanks HaTHOR He so just so striking that I wanted to hang onto him. I have thought about that to. As the marans used to get the oe and you keep breeding back to them. My main goal right at this point is try to get some size to my oe and hopefully better then the large eggs they lay now. Have...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    From your Avitar picture starting with the darkest marans to lightest. I have 2 that lay about the 4 Dark egg lf-rt. There are a few a shade or 2 lighter too. I hope to get the JG size in body and egg size ,but keep the pea comb and the muffs and breads. I used Cuckoo marans for the first cross...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Hello everyone been a while but i wanted to share a few of my OE project chicks. They are Blue Jersey Giant ( have a few with good dark eggs) This is the one of the ones I like best so far. I know he is a single comb but i want to keep him just to see what h ends up...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    The ee has to be a blue egg layer and yes you can cross them on the welsummer and you can make Olive eggers. chicks will have both pea comb and single comb. you want to keep the peas comb pullets. you can tell the pea comb from hatch as it will be flat(smooth) and single combs make it east to...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    ahh its not fair. I want peeps too. On the other hand they are very cute. I like the color. they also look like they are saying in their minds... Geee lady whats all the fuss about.
  9. Soaring Chicks

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    That's great! Hope you post some pictures for us. I can't wait till mine hatch the 14th.
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Sorry to hear that and Good luck I hope they hatch for you.
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    hello everyone, I just wanted to share that I just candled Young Olive Eggers and I got 10 out of 10 that ar growing great. I can't wait till they hatch. these chicks will be croosed with Blue Jersey Giants (they are laying med Brown eggs) I hope to get bigger eggs and hens from these. I am...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    D Quote: A friend of mine got some at tractor supply and did not need all of them so I took 4 and kept the one that laid blue eggs. I have gotten two out of two from McMurry before a few yrs ago. I had asked for blue egg layers. Wolftracks- nice boys you have there. Yep looks mad alright.
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    my F1 cross was a pea green egg color this is the F2 eggs (of the one laying) and sorry not the best was going to get more pictures and dropped the eggs. this is without a flash. with the flash and the red book they look more brown in pictures. When I get more I will take a lot better picture...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I hope she gets good enough to at least beable to stay with her flock.
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: From lorad here on BYC. these are my favs in both sex https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/46537_breeder_updates_10-2011_069.jpg https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/46537_breeder_updates_10-2011_019.jpg I have a couple of young pullets that have similar markings...
  16. Soaring Chicks

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Roosterfry- Thanks ! I knew I was missing something but had not put my finger on it. Just really started playing around with it and had not got it right. Does not help to be sick at the same time. That means I will have to get some sooner then later. If I do that route. I need a new jg rooster...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: They are 5 month old Auburn Java's. The first is a pullet. The gold spangled hamburgs are the more common that look close to them. They come in large fowl(lf) or bantam. The Auburn Java's on the other hand are only Lf and are a dual purpose breed , but are known more for meat then...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: I like that every one looks different,just like the Olive Eggers. Thanks
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: Where in the world did you find auburn javas???? Wow! Babyrnlc- I have some EEs that certain time of year they lay sage eggs, and then for months they'll lay blue. Its like a wellie running out of "paint" - if that makes sense. From lorad here on BYC. these are my favs in both sex
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Hello, first ttime on this thread ,but I have some Olive Eggers & a EE I bred and am looking to breed some more and have been tossing some ideas around. Here are my two pullet/hens I have Lavender Ams and a extra Auburn Java rooster I was thinking of breeding them with. I have them with a...
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