barred easter egger?

[chick4chicks]

Very pretty chicks. I want one. LOL.

 

[speckledhen]

Here's my barred Easter Egger ( BR x Blue Ameraucana). You can see that she has no beard, but the legs and everything else are similar to your pretty girl, onthespot. Here older sister lays nice deep green eggs. (same mother, different father, but still BR)

 

[onthespot]

Okay, time for an update post. Out of pure, unadulterated LUCK I caught my bearded barred easter egger laying an egg. It IS green(ish) not real blue, and not real brown, but at least she carries the green. Now! Time for more egg color questions... How do you get a REALLY olive green color, like the one in MaransGuy's avatar. Do you need to double up on the blue first? I have a surplus of copper black marans from proven dark egg lines. Maybe I cross her on one of those first, then keep my eye out for a barred cockerel (or roo), especially bearded, from good GOOD blue/green lines? By the time I find one, Maybe I will have several darker laying hens to cross him on. I shoved that egg under a broody as soon as I got my mitts on it. She was in with nearly twenty roosters, One was a very nice EE boy, more than half of them were Silver Cuckoo Marans, some of which were feather legged and came from Bev Davis. There was one Golden Cuckoo Marans. There was a brown leghorn, two Australorps, a Birchen Marans, a couple Copper Black Marans, two Splash Marans. Chances less than ten percent that she was bred by something I wouldn't want a chick fathered by... so I think I'm gonna let it fly... see what I get. I might luck out.

 

[Solsken Farm]

OOOOH! How much fun. I cannot answer the question, other than to say I am watching. I remember Richard (Maransguy) telling me he crossed an Ameraucana with his Marans to get that nice olive egg. So it may just be as simple as that. I belive he used a marans roo and an ameaucana or EE hen. You lucked out that she layed a greenie! She could have easily just laid brown. I posted somewhere else that she is the sister to the EE roo I just sold, but he had yellow legs, but the same barred and muffs. I am going to watch this.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! That is GREAT!!

What Kev said was:

IF she lays blue/green/olive, you got very very lucky.. all you would need is a Marans rooster to breed with her- he will pass on the dark brown egg genes and she the blue gene and that will result in olive egger daughters.

I'd say use Cuckoo Marans to keep the cuckoo going.
Good luck!

Lisa​

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

whoops, that double posted.

Lisa

 

[onthespot]

I showed her to a friend who said that cuckoo has V shaped bars on the feathers and barred is straight. Is that a different gene, or a variation of barred? I don't own a cuckoo marans, but my friend does. Wonder if I should ask if I can put her in with her cuckoo marans flock? (big thing to ask, I know.) Not like she wouldn't know which egg was hers... LOL

 

[speckledhen]

Well, not necessarily, if they are hatchery birds. BRs are more cuckoo barred, if they are commercial, not breeder stock, in my experience.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! I only know what I was told when I asked the difference in 'cuckoo' and 'barred'.
The difference is crispness between black and white --- no gray 'blurring'. Cuckoo has black / gray / white but there was no 'v' involved.
'V' -shaped markings would make me think exchequer or ...

Lisa

 

[onthespot]

I went back over there and took a pic of some of the eggs I put under my broody BC marans hen that went broody two days ago. She has a little bit of everything in there, marans, easter egger, white silkie, cochin, mystery mix. Looks cool all together. Now you see that the "green" egg is barely green, like powder blue over barely beige or something. I think she needs more blue as well as more brown to make a proper olive egg.