Brown?

[aart]

Farm, Family, and Home. Hoover Hatchery is their supplier.

Hard do say where the mix up happened, at the hatchery or the store...
....but sounds like you got EE's instead of OE's.

 

[TwoChicksChix]

Do you have any pictures of them? This might help a bit as true olive eggers do tend to have a few distinctions from their parent breeds due to the possible crosses.

 

[awizkey]

Hard do say where the mix up happened, at the hatchery or the store...
....but sounds like you got EE's instead of OE's.

It's weird because they are all grey, unlike any of my ee (I have 4 from last year). Only 2 of 3 have pea combs. The OE were in the same tub as Golden Comets. Idk. I also got 4 Prairie Blue Bell eggers that look how they are supposed to, but have yet to lay.

 

[awizkey]

Do you have any pictures of them? This might help a bit as true olive eggers do tend to have a few distinctions from their parent breeds due to the possible crosses.

I will go take some pics and upload them.

 

[TwoChicksChix]

Since EEs are essentially any chicken with a blue gene mixed with any other chicken, the colors can be very different from chicken to chicken.

 

[awizkey]

Here they are

 

[awizkey]

The 2nd one is the one laying brown eggs. The first is only one with a tuft on head.

 

[awizkey]

Since EEs are essentially any chicken with a blue gene mixed with any other chicken, the colors can be very different from chicken to chicken.

Pics are up

 

[TwoChicksChix]

Hmm, seems to me that they were crossed with a blue Marans, not a black copper. This isn’t a huge issue, as all Marans lay a dark egg, but black copper Marans are known to lay the darkest.

Also, the crest on the head means they were probably crossed with crested legbars.

Do you have a picture of the egg she laid?

 

[awizkey]

Hmm, seems to me that they were crossed with a blue Marans, not a black copper. This isn’t a huge issue, as all Marans lay a dark egg, but black copper Marans are known to lay the darkest.

Also, the crest on the head means they were probably crossed with crested legbars.

Do you have a picture of the egg she laid?

coming up now. I ate it but will get one similar colored.