12-week-old Olive Egger Roo confirmation

[Chick or Treat]

Sorry to say it, but i also thinking cockerel. Maybe there will be a miracle, but I do have to say cockerel. Sorry! But hey, he is pretty handsome!!!!!!

 

[Nafalie]

Sorry to say it, but i also thinking cockerel. Maybe there will be a miracle, but I do have to say cockerel. Sorry! But hey, he is pretty handsome!!!!!!

Thank you for commenting! I appreciate you taking the time to confirm my suspicions.

 

[Chick or Treat]

Sorry it’s late, but I love helping people with gender confirmation! I had to help!!

 

[Nafalie]

Ok now that i have you all here--I have another question. What sort of offspring would I be looking at if I used this Olive Egger as the male? Would he just carry the gene for blue eggs?

 

[redranger209]

Ok now that i have you all here--I have another question. What sort of offspring would I be looking at if I used this Olive Egger as the male? Would he just carry the gene for blue eggs?

Depends on what you breed him with. If to a brown egg layer tgen according to a punette square, (I think that’s what it’s called) then one fourth will carry the blue egg gene, but I think it’s more complicated than that.

 

[Chick or Treat]

An olive egger is a maran, crosses with ameracauna. This means he could make offspring with a possibility of blue, green, or dark brown. BUT, it also depends on who he’s breeding with. Mixed breeds are difficult to predict their egg color.

 

[AlleysChicks]

Can you post a pic when you get a chance? Was yours labeled Olive Egger? How cool!

Mine is from my birds lol I’ll try to get a pic of him but he free ranges and runs from me.

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

Pretty sure this is a boy, but not positive.
The feathering is strange. Usually males don't get all those sickle feathers.usually it is pointy saddle feathers. I think wait a couple weeks, because nothing really looks super pointy to me, and it is still a bit early for definite male feathering.

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

An olive egger is a maran, crosses with ameracauna. This means he could make offspring with a possibility of blue, green, or dark brown. BUT, it also depends on who he’s breeding with. Mixed breeds are difficult to predict their egg color.

An olive Egger is simply a cross of a blue egg layer and a dark brown egg layer. They can be made of all different breed, like Cream Legbar, or Welsummer, and many others! So not always Marans and Ameraucana.

 

[aart]

I vote pullet..... the comb isn't that red and the tail feathers can be misleading at that age. I'd wait to see male hackle and saddle feathers emerging soon before calling cockerel.

This is a BCMxCCL pullet at 12-13wks....look at her tail.