This little blue olive egger has learned how to jump up on the feeder. Time to put the screen cover over the brooder or I'll have chickies running all over the house!
06-11-13
If I put my Olive Egger hens in with my pure Black Copper Marans roo what color eggs can I expect to get?
And if I put my Easter Egger hens in with that same roo?
If the OE chicks I posted above are all cockerels what kind of hens should I put them in with? Black Copper Marans? I'm going for...
Here are my 3 olive eggers. I got them as chicks but forgot to ask the hatch date. These pictures were taken yesterday.
Any clue on age or sex?
Chick #1
Chick #1
Chick #2
Chick #2
Chick #3
Chick #3
Here is my EE egg picture. Would any of these be dark enough to make OEs if I got a BCM roo for them? At this point I'm not sure which EE hen is laying the darker or lighter eggs. I just started learning about Olive Eggers.
Tomorrow I will take some good natural light photos of the different green and blue/green eggs I have (I've got 4 dozen of them right now) and post them here asap. Would it be possible to breed OEs with regular feed store EEs? Out of about 17 chicks I ended up with about half roos, half hens.
Thank you Illia and DMRippy!
I have EE hens that were bought as chicks at a feed store, labeled as "Americana", of course . There is at least one, maybe more, that lay eggs the color of the darkest green eggs on Illia's avatar picture. Would she/they be olive eggers?