Anyone have F3 olive Eggers laying and egg color???

[Kathy Watts]

​Sounds like a plan!

I put f2 with Marans roo and got an extremely dark brown egg. Darker than my Marans eggs.

 

[Double Barrel]

I put f2 with Marans roo and got an extremely dark brown egg. Darker than my Marans eggs.

That's interesting. Have any pics?

 

[Oddball9391]

Top 4 rows are F1, F2, F3 and even a 4th or 5th generation Olive Eggers. I honestly don't know much besides what I told you due to I won both dozen in a poultry raffle and got than from the breeders. If you're wondering what the last two rows are they're Ayam Cemani eggs which I also won lol

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Any updates on the Olive Eggers?

 

[Adrien515]

His lady I bought some marans from has some f9 olive egger eggers... bred back to a Black copper maran every time. The eggs are a darker brown then the actual marans!! I screenshot Ted the picture picturw sentence me and editited it so you know what eggs belong to who. I so wanted some of her f9 eggs, but she’s only has one hen laying them. She has some f10 but they’re by only a couple months old, not laying I may have to beg her to ship me at least 3 eggs from her one f9 layer... because she plans on breeding to f10s back to ameraucana and they’ll be way lighter in color (

 

[Cycomiko]

The ones on the left from my F3 Olive Egger that just started laying this weekend. They looked so dark and chocolate. At times you can see a hint of green when the light hits certain angles. The chicken looks nothing like a BCM (Mostly Red, white butt, pea comb).

The picture is 2 days of eggs from 6 chickens. OE, WL, and 4 ISA Browns.

 

[omilona]

My f2 OEs are laying now. I will keep two of the cockerals to hatch in the spring. My original crosses hatched were Crested Cream Legbar x Welsumer and Ameraucana x Birchen Marans. This generation is those two crosses bred and produced hens with light green to dark khaki some with freckles. I am hoping in the spring to hatch a hen who more saturated colored green eggs with dark freckles.

 

[Dougtheiceman]

I can see why she got the terminology honestly as look at this chart. They are calling it f2 when back to chocolate parent again so obviously if she goes by this chart then yes f2 back to choc again would be f3. So she came to it honestly from chart!

I really like the graft

 

[Dougtheiceman]

My f2 OEs are laying now. I will keep two of the cockerals to hatch in the spring. My original crosses hatched were Crested Cream Legbar x Welsumer and Ameraucana x Birchen Marans. This generation is those two crosses bred and produced hens with light green to dark khaki some with freckles. I am hoping in the spring to hatch a hen who more saturated colored green eggs with dark freckles.

How did they turn out?

 

[Newyorkrita]

I can see why she got the terminology honestly as look at this chart. They are calling it f2 when back to chocolate parent again so obviously if she goes by this chart then yes f2 back to choc again would be f3. So she came to it honestly from chart!

All those fabulous shades of greens are awesome!!