Hatching olive eggs

[Auntiejessi3]

Behold my colorful eggs! Jelly? Are ya?!

Jokes aside, they are def pretty but a PAIN to see into!! I can't tell if my eggs are going or not. I just have to hope and pray.

What kind of incubator is that?

 

[Poultrybonkers]

 

[ElfenLied89]

Aww lovely hah well jelly... I have some going in in next few days we'll excited

Let us know how that goes. I still can't see into mine. The sun could lend some light to it and I still couldn't see. I bet the olive eggs put up shades on the inside just so we can't see well. Lol.

 

[ElfenLied89]

What kind of incubator is that?

https://www.target.com/p/rugg-egg--...rature-and-humidity-display--red/-/A-88516806


So far I love it for the price. One day I will get a name brand, and bad behind, incubator. Til then this one works wonders.

 

[TexasBlues]

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So, it’s possible to breed true for olive eggs…if the correct parents (homozygous B) are selected in the F2?
Does anybody here have olive eggers that are f3+?

 

[Poultrybonkers]

So, it’s possible to breed true for olive eggs…if the correct parents (homozygous B) are selected in the F2?
Does anybody here have olive eggers that are f3+?

I stopped after f2 a year old and my hen never layed so i processed her and called it quits even grabbing two olive eggers like f3s you still have a chance of brown unless you bc1 and so on

 

[TexasBlues]

even grabbing two olive eggers like f3s you still have a chance of brown unless you bc1 and so on

If I understand correctly… Those 25% of f2s that are homozygous for the blue gene would not produce brown eggs, only shades of green.

Of course those f2 roosters and hens would have to be tested to know if they had 2 copies of the blue egg gene.

It would make more sense imo to stabilize the olive egg trait before back crossing to the blue egg layer or the dark brown layer.