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  1. haTHOR

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Peach2u--Thank you for sharing the pics. I am putting together my new breeding plans for OEs and wondering if I will ever get back to the super dark eggs I was getting in my avatar! Starting over is so bittersweet!
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Does anyone have pics of offspring from a splash Ameracauna x black copper Marans? I have searched all morning and can't seem to bring up any images.
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    So excited to get back into the OE breeding process! Counting the days until July 1 when we move from Philly suburb (where we've been for 2 yrs--had to leave my birds behind in Arkansas) to the mountains of NC. You can see my olive eggs in my avatar picture.
  4. haTHOR

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Don't discount a bird from your OE program just because it has a straight comb! I have a girl laying a beautiful, super dark, green/gold egg who has a straight comb. You just never know. I have read many times that about 95% of blue-egg-gened birds display a pea comb, but I have also seen (on...
  5. haTHOR

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    that is seriously cool looking.
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    My pink girl's egg has tiny white polka dots. That would be neat, to have lilac polka dotted eggs!
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    While I am at it...Got a good pic of my eggs I'm using for OE crosses right now:
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Right now, I have the pinkest producing hen I have ever seen. This is an untouched picture. She is a marans cross, born in April 2012. She lays like a rock star, pretty much every single day; very healthy and vigorous. This is inside the coop; if anything, out of the shadows, it is lighter...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Absolutely! I do think it has to do with the layer of paint they get from their FBCM half. Some of my FBCM girls lay eggs very different from one day to the next, too. Olive doesn't have a perfect pedigree! She is the daughter of a very "common" EE, Ruth: and our FBCM roo, Jules. Here's...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    a few of the OEs i just hatched...these are from 2 non-standard Ameracaunas X FCBM roo. two babies from a pure ameracauna roo X FBCM hen--these guys are SO FAT and cheeky. 2 of 4 babies i got out my super deep green olive layer (hen who laid eggs in my avatar). These are...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I think I forgot to answer the original question...it was my avatar in question. Yes, all the olives came from my first OE girl, Olive. The whites are from my brown leghorns to show the variation and depth of color. Those were her first 16 or whatever eggs over something like 19 days.
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I learned it as french coppered black, but perhaps it was incorrect. It is from the Marans article on feathersite.
  13. haTHOR

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    This looks very possible to me.I think a lot of this kind of variation comes from more or less bloom on given days, at least with my eggs.
  14. haTHOR

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    BEAUTIFUL. I adore your speckles...my original OE goal was for a heavily speckled olive egg (like your brown one, but green). FCBM = French Coppered Black Marans...is that not what laid your speckled dark brown egg? Are you asking if one hen laid all the eggs in my incubator shot? No, I...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Expecting my OEs in the next couple days! In lockdown with the eco 20 (brinsea). Can't wait to see the colors out of the non-standard ameracaunas X FCBM roo, as the hens were blue/gray, white/splash, etc. The dark green eggs are from first generation OE hens (color is better on my avatar...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I have read before that some of you OE breeders are finding that it isn't rare to have a straight combed pullet who lays an olive egg. (I just found my straight combed girl is laying an olive egg too). Conventional wisdom is that a pea comb is highly correlated with the blue egg gene (about...
  17. haTHOR

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Dang, I knew that! LOL. Got a little too excited huh? So If I take my 25% barred females from this pullet's eggs, and breed back to the barred male, I still won't get reliable SL chicks? What about breeding the barred females to my FCBM (black) roo. I obviously still need some "learnin'"...
  18. haTHOR

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    thank you--i have learned a lot from you and happy to be seeing the results.
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    15 eggs in the last 18 days from my first (surviving) OE layer...took two years of breeding to get to this point! These are in indirect sunlight with a couple white leghorn eggs for perspective. These are from a pullet out of a FCBM male and a barred easter egger who laid lots of BIG green...
  20. haTHOR

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    ok, i have a question. bred my barred EE hen to a pure FCBM. only hatched one egg from the cross. baby appears silver/white. ??? i was under the impression this would be a sexable chick. help? it's the light one. here is mama
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