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  1. StarMeKritten

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I wish you could just crack an egg to see if the hen has 2 copies of the blue egg gene.. But that's unfortunately not the case.
  2. StarMeKritten

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    It's from my black copper marans hen. About half of her eggs have a heavier bloom on them and look purple. The OE is a cross between her and my EE rooster. I have a second pullet from the same cross that's about a week younger. I'm anxious to see what her eggs look like too, but she has a single...
  3. StarMeKritten

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Finally! An olive egg! I'm so excited!
  4. StarMeKritten

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Both pullets. I would guess that they used crested cream legbars and BCM to create their olive eggers.
  5. StarMeKritten

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Yeah. It varies. I have several that are crosses between feather legged and clean legged parents. Some have no feathers on their legs and some have lots. My olive egger pullet actually has really nicely feathered legs even though her marans mom has only a feather on each leg. My EE rooster is...
  6. StarMeKritten

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I thought I'd share a photo of this cockerel. He's a cross between an EE rooster and a marans hen. Since he has a single comb, I presume he doesn't carry the blue egg gene. He sure is pretty though.. I have a 3 month old pea combed pullet from the same cross. Hopefully she will eventually lay...
  7. StarMeKritten

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I had a welsummer/ EE mix that started crowing at 3-4 weeks. He had a full set of saddle feathers by the time he was 2 months old. It was absolutely crazy.
  8. StarMeKritten

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I have 5 EE/ buff orp mix hens. They are buff with white legs. Some are bearded and some aren't. 4 of them lay a light to medium green egg and the other lays a light blue egg.
  9. StarMeKritten

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    It's possible... But usually there will be something a little off about them. Some will be taller, some will have rows of points instead of peas, some will be floppy. Some will look much better than others. There are all kinds of little modifiers that can change exactly how they look. It really...
  10. StarMeKritten

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    When you cross a pea comb with a single comb, the pea combs often won't look like normal pea combs. It's way more noticeable on the roosters. Your single comb OE rooster is unlikely to carry the gene for blue eggs. Crossed back to marans hens, your modified pea comb rooster will probably give...
  11. StarMeKritten

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    They look like welsummer mixes to me too. I have a couple hens from that same cross. They are just full of personality. Mine don't lay olive eggs but the welsummer eggs that they hatched from didn't have very good color either.
  12. StarMeKritten

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    My marans hen occasionally lays eggs with a heavy bloom that makes them look purplish too. These eggs are all from the same hen.
  13. StarMeKritten

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    If it is a cross between an olive egger (legbar marans cross) hen and a marans rooster, then there's about a 50% chance of olive eggs and a 50% chance of darker brown eggs.
  14. StarMeKritten

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I have EEs with all different leg colors. Slate, yellow, white, green.. They lay different shades of blue and green but there's no correlation between egg color and leg color.
  15. StarMeKritten

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Hopeful you'll get some eggs soon! My black copper marans hen took forever to start laying. I think she was about 9.5 months old when I finally got my first egg from her... AND she was a late winter hatch. I think if she had hatched mid summer, it could have taken even longer for her to start...
  16. StarMeKritten

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Nearly any color of rooster will produce black sex links when bred to barred hens. You can't use a barred rooster or one that could be hiding a barring gene (such as white). If you use a BCM, the pullets will have a little gold on them. If you use a birchen, they will have a bit of silver...
  17. StarMeKritten

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    The blue egg shell gene is dominant so you can't get blue or green eggs from crossing two brown egg laying breeds. With your blue egg layers, you'll get either 50% green layers or 100% green layers when crossed with your BCM. It depends on whether your Easter eggers carry one copy of the blue...
  18. StarMeKritten

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Thanks everyone! I really like the silvers. I have a few silver easter eggers that look nearly identical to these guys. The welsummer eggs weren't especially dark so I'm really not sure what to expect from their egg color. The hens were a few years old so I don't know if they were lighter...
  19. StarMeKritten

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    These are my 4 month old olive eggers. They are the result of a silver ameraucana rooster over welsummer hens. The eggs were included as extras when I purchased some pure breed hatching eggs from a local breeder. I ended up with 2 pullets and a cockerel. Both pullets have slate legs and the...
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