I was thinking Of breeding my Copper Marans With my cream legbars to produce olive eggers. Does anyone know if the offspring would also produce offspring that also lay olive eggs or is it just a first generation thing ?
I'm starting to question my whether my SOE is really a pullet. She's 5 weeks old, and has a decent sized comb coming in, no color to it yet though. Most of my other pullets have pea combs, so I know hers would be a bit larger than theirs.
She's definitely CCLB and I'm guessing barred rock mixed.
Ok, I know some are starlight green eggers, the white are amber links. So we have sapphire gems and prairie bluebell- but how do I tell them apart? Also the one with the number 1 and a circle around it what is that breed? And the black ones with white… they were almost completely black except...
Hello again, it's been a while! I recently added 4 more chicks to my flock, if anyone has guesses on gender I would love to hear it!
CCLB: pretty positive she's a pullet, but mostly posting cus she's pretty.
Turkens: I've never had these before, but always wanted some. Heard they are harder to...
So I’ve seen a woman’s eggs (wrong kind 😝) and hers are from and olive eggers but with a gray bloom! Anyone know how to increase the chances of gray blooms?
Looking for tips to breed olive Eggers with the most pigmented green possible. Looking to produce the greenest eggs
I was thinking of using BBS Ameraucana hens and a Marans rooster or vice versa - opinions on this please
Can I get the greenest eggs in an F1 cross?
What shade of brown...
Here is a pullet we have that is absolutely unique. I assume she's an Olive Egger marans/cream legbar mix. She has gray feathered legs, huge, rivals our Brahma in size, approximately 6 months, but she isn't laying yet so no eggs to help us decide. She's also the head chick in charge, very...
What's better than a first egg?? :wee
Found this little surprise today in the run (not the nest box - naughty girl - but will let it slide because she's new to it 🙄).
Hoping it means the rest of the 6.5 month old girls will start laying soon, too.
The pullet egg (L) is from a blue-laying EE...
I wanted to share…
The five chicks I hatched from a Blue Copper Marans Roo. Three hatched from a Black Copper Marans hen, and 2 out of the three look to be Blue and one black. The other eggs I hatched from was a Blue Isbar or Silerudd’s Blue. And the 5th chick came from my Lavender Ameraucana. I...
I had 6 chicks hatch this week. They are a cross between a Blue Maran rooster (brown egg) and an Easter Egger Hen (light green egg). They are only a few days old and I am curious if anyone else has a similar cross and what did the offspring's egg color turn out to be? I was hoping to make some...
I am wondering about the age/signs of egg laying first time chicken owner here. They are 23 weeks old, we live in Michigan though. Will they lay this fall yet??
Hi. This is my 8 week old chick, Flash. S/he has a very small comb that is red. We've only seen her involving in sparring once. I can't tell if she is a he or not. Help please!
I'm just super excited so I made a thread! My girls just stared laying and I popped one egg in the bator and it pipped this morning! It's from my Sapphire Olive Egger (she doesn't lay green eggs but oh well) and most likely my White Japanese Bantam. It's pipped at the wrong end but I've had eggs...
I have 4 chicks that are about 4 weeks old and would love to see if anyone had any ideas about whether they’re hens or roosters! I know 4 weeks might be too early but the suspense is killing me and I have no idea about sexing chicks so thought I’d see if anyone had any ideas! We have two...
These Olive Eggers from Ideal hatched 5/19 or 6/23. They are a cross between Easter Eggers and Welsummers or Barnevelders. These have multi-colored plumage with some having beards and muffs similar to Easter Eggers and some not. They are excellent layers of Olive Colored eggs
They currently...
One of my olive egger chickens (~18 weeks) laid 2 very soft-shelled eggs. what do I do/ how do I fix this and prevent it in the future.
The white's and yoke of the egg look normal.
Hi! I’m Cecilia! I currently have 8 hens, one barred rock (Ruthie), 2 sex-link (Dorothy and Barbara), 3 EE (Leia, Sally, and Chermie), and 2 OE (Tina and Nayna). As you can see, my 4 year old took great pleasure in naming some of them 🤣. I’ve been at this about 6 months, having acquired my first...