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[KPenley]

Kathy, Lucy was a September hatch with an April first egg. While the first couple were small (45g), she went very quickly to Large sized eggs and occasionally throws XL as well. I haven't had anyone else lay that late since, but I'll try to keep track in case I see the same correlation you have!

 

[enola]

The olive egger question...... I kept an Araucana/cuckoo marans rooster to breed to some olive egger hens, hoping for more olive eggers. It didn't work as well as I thought it would. The resulting pullets laid eggs of all shades of green, and some of the pullets (that I sold) were reported to lay brown eggs.

 

[jerryse]

The olive egger question...... I kept an Araucana/cuckoo marans rooster to breed to some olive egger hens, hoping for more olive eggers. It didn't work as well as I thought it would. The resulting pullets laid eggs of all shades of green, and some of the pullets (that I sold) were reported to lay brown eggs.

Yes it depends on the genes they inherit . In time through selection you could stabilize the genes to produce olive eggers . Until then it is a roll of the dice . That is why most create olive eggers with a first cross . It is dependable and does not take years of selection .

 

[ChicKat]

Thanks to both of you -- it is interesting - and makes sense.

 

[DesertChic]

Yeah, I think it is a matter of bad timing. They just happened to be on the cusp of egg laying right when the days got really short and cold. I saw one peeking into the nest box today but I think she was just taunting me. The girls really are the most "busy body" chickens I have ever had! Which makes them very endearing imo.

Trust me, when they start laying you guys are going to be the first to hear about it. Mostly because no one in my real life cares to hear about my chickens and their egg laying behaviors. Weirdos.

I thought I was the only one with this problem! My son told our friends yesterday, "My mom can't have a single conversation without talking about chickens!"

 

[chicken pickin]

I thought I was the only one with this problem! My son told our friends yesterday, "My mom can't have a single conversation without talking about chickens!"

LOL My DH says the same thing about me

 

[ChicKat]

I thought I was the only one with this problem! My son told our friends yesterday, "My mom can't have a single conversation without talking about chickens!"

too true!

 

[estamets]

 I thought I was the only one with this problem! My son told our friends yesterday, "My mom can't have a single conversation without talking about chickens!"

X500!!!

 

[chicken pickin]

Okay - thanks for the clarification. :O)

KPenley had mentioned that the brown pigment (that greens up the eggs) does get used up in the egg cycle - so later in the clutch the blue may show through more.

I agree that the light has something to do with it...they may surprise you though. A week after red red combs and faces -- it's time for eggs.

100% agree - I have not seen a CL cockerel or even old guy rooster abuse a hen. That is one of the things I really like about them. Once my old rooster was so busy giving treats and feed to hens, I wondered if he ever got any himself. I have also seen them go into the nest box to coach the hen or pullet. Once I had two laying at the same time in two different pens - but only one rooster around at the time everyone was free ranging-- and he kept running back and forth between the two nesting boxes to see which one needed him the most to be there for them. ;O)

And today is the Winter Solstice - yay!

LOL - I hate what autocorrect does to me. Once I typed 'rinky dink' and it got changed to 'donkey dunk'..Once I was talking about the Geminids meterorite shower and it changed it to feminists.
Was your hold out in POL in Nov or Dec? One thing about later starters - they seem to lay larger eggs -- noticably - the pullet egg era seems to be skipped overe.

Fingers crossed for you eggs soon...they are old enough that's for sure.


Me too-- I find it fascinating - Question about olive-eggers for y'all with knowledge there, have I heard correctly that olive eggers don't breed true and you have to always have a dark brown egg parent in the mix to get olive? What color do you consider olive eggers...like the green olives in the jar/
REALLY!! Thank heaven for BYC

Thanks, I have heard that sometimes they will be greener at the beginning of the cycle and as the brown pigments wears off they get bluer. I suspect this will happen. They are young so time will tell.

 

[BuffyBugSlayer]

Look what I got today! Ha, I guess I should have kept my complaining to myself for another day. I found it outside in front of the coop in the mud. Must have come as a surprise. Two pictures in bad lighting. One makes it look green and the other blue. I don't have an OAC yet. But it is pretty and I am excited!