Hi Everyone! I never post here...but thought that I would pop by and post a photo of one of my olive eggers eggs. She is a Splash, a product of my very dark Blue Copper Marans rooster and one of my Blue Ameraucana's. I can't get enough of these olive eggs.
12 are in lockdown right now, set for...
Thanks Spot! I did notice a nice blue egg under the brownish coating when I washed it off, accidentally got a little over zealous and wiped it down to the blue shell. It is a very pretty blue underneath. I have 2 more OE gals that should start laying anyday as well, hoping one of them lay a...
Hi everyone!
So my first Olive egger has started to lay....I guess I was expecting a darker egg than this....does this color look about right for an OE and do each generations eggs get darker? I had to wash it off when I brought it out of the coop...somebody smashed another egg right next to...
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Who are her parents? Not often I find a splash Olive Egger (or is it splash?)
Her mother is one of my suppose to be Splash AM's but she and her sister are EE's as both ended up with some very fine coppery orange lacing around their hackles and her father is my WAAAAAAY TOOOOO dark blue...
Here is one of my future Olive Eggers.....Little Miss Maizy. I thought she would have ended up with the AM comb but she has a single comb like her daddy. She came from a nice blue egg. Wish you could see her fluffy cheeks better.
Hatched Jan. 19th. She is such a sweetie....very friendly. Her...
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Flower~
.....that is a scarf I got at the Goodwill, I bought a green and a pink one, I thought that they would make the babies colors pop when taking pictures. I think they both work good, but like the green one better, it's not so blinding in photos.
Now that all 3 have hatched I...
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hoping for a pullet!!!
In an effort to save some time (dial-up) and not posting the same photo twice here is a link to the new future Olive Eggers!
One more is still rocking!
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