Barred Olive Eggers: These are great for people who want olive eggs but also keep Ameraucanas, because you will never mix up the two breeds, (ameraucanas don't come in barred, ever) and you can also sex the chicks at hatching and save yourself half the feed bill up to the point of crowing or laying an egg or growing hackles and saddle feathers. The eggs vary in color from blue/green, olive green, khaki and deeper olive green. Sometimes they are lightly speckled.
Question re your barred olive eggers - are they from your splash Ameraucana roo over Coo Coo marans? When you describe the eggs here, do you mean the eggs you are sending, or the eggs the resulting hens will produce?
Also, do you have any eggs that are from splash over splash?
Sock Puppet. Both ArizonaDesertChicks and gckiddhouse have made home made bators. ADC got 15 chicks from my eggs. GC has 15 eggs going into lockdown tomorrow.
When I hatch again next month, I'm ordering some of Patty's eggs.
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I will mix up your dozen any way you want it. In fact, it doesn't even have to be a dozen. It can be any number of eggs if I can fill your order. Anything from one egg up to three or four dozen.
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Question re your barred olive eggers - are they from your splash Ameraucana roo over Coo Coo marans? When you describe the eggs here, do you mean the eggs you are sending, or the eggs the resulting hens will produce?
Also, do you have any eggs that are from splash over splash?
The olive eggers are from a hen that was a feed store chick, appeared to be a cross between an ameraucana and a barred rock. When I got her she was in a pen with about fifteen different marans roos of different color varieties. She had not yet laid an egg. A few days after I got her home, she started to lay, so I pulled her eggs and hatched as many as I could from all the mystery marans dads, and got a genetically diverse F1 crop of chicks to start with. I saved the best roo i could and crossed him back on the barred hen and two of her darkest laying black pullets. Then I saved back a double barred, bearded, clean legged roo from the fall and am crossing him on the original mama, and the six pullets. One of the pullets is blue and goes back to a wyandotte cross that laid blue blue eggs. It was an experiment to determine how much olive genetics my F1 roo could contribute on a hen that had zero brown/tinted genes. The offspring pullet lays a respectable olive egg so I was very pleased with that. You could get the odd blue barred chick from that one, so I could either include hers or pull her out when doing your order. Let me know your preference. Some people like blue barred, some do not. Hope that answers your question. I got kinda windy there, sorry.
oops, forgot to answer, splash over splash, the only one I have is a not quite marans hen that lays a very big egg, in with a splash ameraucana roo. The babies would be splash EE's, and carry a single comb gene so would not breed true. The hen is really nice though.
