Anyone have info on Olive Eggers

[Diamond Peno]

Exactly but unless you knew genealogy for both rooster and hen.since ee and oe are mixed it's almost impossible to predict egg color with 100% accuracy.
My mother, father, and both their parents all have black hair brown eyes.I have blue eyes light brown hair.Daughter has blonde hair blue eyes.Her Mother and grand parents on mother side have brown eyes brown hair.Blue eye color isn't supposed to be dominate gene yet me and my daughter have blue eyes.I have 3,siblings all brown eyes.

Yes blue is recessive I breed blue rats and in order to get blue you have to breed for it. unless there is a hidden as I have breed to rats lines known and blues popped up but way way back in the line was blue just hidden till the right pare where combined.

 

[lomine]

See in my head if you breed and Olive with another Olive that would still make it and olive just not certain on egg color. if you breed them together since they are both Olive Eggers. but if that is not right then what would the offspring be called? lol. that is like saying to me breed 2 golden retrievers together but not get a littler of goldens.. lol I know chicken breeding is different by a lot then dogs but i am talking about if you call something this breed (even a cross breed to make it) breeding the 2 together makes more even if its a new generation of what it was. hope you got that lol. So would the chicks from 2 olive eggers still be olive eggers? just eggs will not or maynot be green?

OEs are not a breed. One of the criteria of becoming a recognized chicken breed is that they must breed true at least 50% of the time. That means that when bred you can accurately predict what the offspring will look like and what color eggs they will lay. The 50% comes into play when breeding Blue colored birds because you can get blue, black, and splash colored offspring. But they will still all have the same body and lay the same color.

You can still call all the offspring OE but if they are bred from two first generation they won't all lay olive eggs. When you start selectively breeding the next generations (only picking females that lay dark olive eggs) then you start to get more consistent results as a larger and larger percentage of offspring will get the blue egg gene and right brown coating genes.

 

[lomine]

Yes blue is recessive I breed blue rats and in order to get blue you have to breed for it. unless there is a hidden as I have breed to rats lines known and blues popped up but way way back in the line was blue just hidden till the right pare where combined.

In chickens the blue egg gene is dominate.

 

[Diamond Peno]

You can't give the specifics for each individual offspring, no. But it can be predicted in general.

If one parent is BW (blue gene, white gene) they have a 50% chance of passing on either one. If both parents are that way, you have BW, BW, BB, WW. 2:4, 1:4, 1:4. 50% and 25%, respectively.

Blue being "dominant" just means that it will display over white in the phenotype - basically, it's rock-paper-scissors, but blue beats white instead of something like paper beats rock ~

The pattern will be consistent if they are first generation heterozygotes; but you can't predict how each individual egg will hatch, for example.

Its not so much about keeping the green color... I can get what ever I need to make more to hopefully get the green back. but and OE to an OE is that not still and OE just eggs are not guaranteed to be all green? I got them from tractor supply they were marked spring/easter chicks.... when i called the head of the company FINALLY someone told me they here olive eggers. they just marked them that because people were getting confused things they were easter eggers... lol I as like well that is what I am thinking they where till I look up some things and the easter eggers did not match. lol

 

[The Moonshiner]

OE to OE can be called OEs, EEs or whatever you want to call them.
OEs are not a breed just a label.
I'm not a fan of crossing any two breeds of anything together and then calling it a name and acting like it is a breed.
I don't mind OEs because I can look at that as a label that describes it.
With that theory I can't make sense of calling the offspring an OE if it doesn't lay true olive colored eggs. Some will but some wont.

 

[Diamond Peno]

I thank you all this is all great info. anymore is also welcome. this really helps me wrap my head around the genetics to a little. If I get different colored eggs then cool if all shades or green cool. lol. I don't mind crossing chickens if you are trying to get something hardy and more durable for hot climates to cold... but some crossings i don't get lol. I can see if you just let your flock breed to what ever to hatch out if they are all healthy and hardy makes more hardy healthy bird and some cool colors... but some that are selective to me are like what in the world???? lol.
This is my Easter Egger Rooster Coca Cola an my Olive Egger Rooster. The EE Roo is the more mature one... the OE is still young an more brown. I love their colors and like the multi color a lot. and want to make more that have these colors BUT if I can keep some green in the OE too that would be cool.
I wonder if I use Spackle or wyandot for the EE if they will be pretty splashed/speckled color even for the OE.. I have some lighter colored hens too some australorps and 1 dixie rainbow. she reddish colored looking to me.

 

[Hyroler]

You can breed OE to OE and get brown egg,blue egg ,green or Olive egg.If you buy 10 EE I can almost guarantee some will lay brown eggs.If you want Olive eggs your best chance is OE to OE but it's not guaranteed.I would say 6 out of 10 will be Olive colored other 4 will be blue or brown

 

[The Moonshiner]

If you breed F1 OEs together you'll average out about 75% green to olive green layers and approximately 25% brown egg layers.
You could get blue or white but that would be pretty low percentage.
A lot of genes go into brown eggs so its not easy to get a cross that don't inherate at least some of them when both parents carry them.