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  1. onthespot

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    various shades of green most likely, from off blue mint green, sage, dark teal, khaki, light olive, medium olive most likely.
  2. onthespot

    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Great pics Illia. That roo you ate looks like he was trying to stay under the radar, look like a pullet. LOL no mistaking that beautiful roo plumage. He was a beauty!
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: I was thinking cockerel as well, due to the thick legs. Onthespot - I've never heard of the BEAK being a gender indicator! Seriously? NEATO if so!!! Yeah, thick upper beak, especially if the cartilage over the nostrils is prominent too, and a steeper angle from the top to the tip. I...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    and the beak. See how thick the upper half of the bill is close up to the face, and how it is sloped down from eyes to tip? BOY! Sorry,
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Ditto, he carries one copy. If you cross him on single comb birds, you will get fifty fifty Cross him on homozygous, like pure ameracuanas, you will get all green/blue layers. Cross him on EE's of unknown genetics, and you will get something like around seventy five to eighty seven percent EE's...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Depends if you EE roo carries one or both genes for the blue egg trait. If he is homozygous, ALL the offspring will be carriers, and lay some shade of blue or green. If he carries one gene, and is crossed only on brown, tinted or white laying breeds, then half will carry it. If he is crossed on...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    The lighter the egg laying ability the closer to blue the next generation will lay. If you cross an olive egger on a white egg layer, the offspring will still lay green in some shade or another. It would take several geneations to breed out the brown.
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I'm thinking since wheaten is recessive, maybe better to go with something red based. A dark, terra cotta laying RIR?
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: Thanks for the info., but--unfortunately--I'm still a little confused. I asked before, and the basic idea for an Olive-egger rooster was they are "if-y" in which egg color gene would be carried in the offspring. What is the use of an Olive-egger rooster in a breeding program? It is also...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Even in the first generation of OE x OE, you can select for the few homozygous birds for the blue/green gene, by test outcrossing to a single comb and retain only your homozygous breeders for your F2 project. You'd have all green layers, which should produce all green layers and from there out...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Depends on the EE, compared to the Ameaucana. If your Ameraucana is purebred, it should be homozygous for the blue egg gene, and you should get all olive eggers if you breed it to a brown egg breed. Since EE are from unknown background, there is a chance they would only have one copy of the...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    I used my splash ameracuana roo last year over marans hens and i too never had a non-peacombed, non-green laying offspring from that pen. If the pea combed parents are homozygous, then all the offspring will have pea combs. If they are homozygous for beards, they will all have beards too.
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Wow, those look EXACTLY like Wellsummers with beards! What color is the daddy bird?
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    mine were made from a barred bearded green laying hen of unknown breeding that had been in a pen with a lot of marans when I bought her. I hatched out the eggs she laid when I got her home, and got my start from there. I used another marans roo, a blue cuckoo one for a short time. I crossed her...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Quote: Still have them. Did not breed them this year. Had some "city trouble" and pretty much lost a whole year. (will be contacting an attorney soon to see about punishing the city for their RIDICULOUS behavior and claims. If my thinking is straight, I'm gonna open a whole can of chicken...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Does anyone here have any barred olive eggers that look brownish before they moult? I posted this in another thread a while back, and most people concurred it was fading from pre-moult colors. I just think she always looks browinsh, was wondering if anyone else had their birds look like this?
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    The pen I sold the "blue olive egger" eggs from was with my splash ameracuana roo with silver leakage, and the hens were mostly rejects from my CBM breeding program, ones with mixed lines, to little or no copper, or solid black from my barred olive egger project too. In fact, any bird I didn't...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Wow alicefelldown! Those are beautiful eggs!!! And the girls are very pretty too! I don't have that particular pen set up any more. Still have the roo, but Mrs. Smith has the hens that laid the eggs yours hatched out of. I was just keeping them for her for awhile. Those eggs are spectacular! May...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    The color may darken up over time. One of my "olive eggers" lays a nearly blue egg. Full sister to the one that lays the darkest egg. You could still cross her back on an olive egger or marans from very dark eggs lines. Or make breakfast. SOME of those eggs gotta go in the fridge, don't they...
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    The Olive-Egger thread!

    Should be able to tell by combs. The Ameraucanas should have a pea comb, and the wellsummers should have a single comb. It is tiny, but you can see the teethy spikes on their combs even the day they hatch. Might need a magnifying glass and bright light to see, but you can tell from day one...
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