How can I "make" an olive egger?

[Emmaloveschickens9156]

BCM x Ameracaua or cream leg are or any (purebred or homozygous for blue egg laying gene) blue egg laying breed.

 

[NatJ]

BCM x Ameracaua or cream leg are or any (purebred or homozygous for blue egg laying gene) blue egg laying breed.

If you want all the daughters to lay olive or green, yes that works well.

Chickens that are heterozygous for the blue egg gene can also be used, if you are willing to accept that half of their daughters will lay brown eggs and only half lay olive or green. (Handy to know if you don't have access to homozygotes, or don't have an easy way to identify them.)

 

[LtDanFan]

Thanks for the chart. I realize this is an older thread so i am hoping that people are still around because now I am curious. I have a cream legbar rooster and a couple of olive eggers. Got my first olive-colored egg yesterday and it was really pretty, a rich deep olive green color. Not sure how long I will keep my cream legbar Roo, but if i keep him long enough to get fertile eggs and incubate them, i should end up with females that are all olive eggers, correct?

 

[McChooky]

Yes, but not of the egg. The egg that the chick hatched out of was this color (ps not my pic) and now the baby herself lays that color.
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Here is their baby, Little Debbie. She absolutely sucks as she is skittish and gives me the evil eye all the time.
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This isn't the most recent pic, she has grown quite a bit since the pic was taken in October. I find it weird how she doesn't have fluffy cheeks.

One of my Welsummers will walk up and stand here until I pet her.When I pet her my Sapphire gem attacks her

 

[wrathsfarm]

Thanks for the chart. I realize this is an older thread so i am hoping that people are still around because now I am curious. I have a cream legbar rooster and a couple of olive eggers. Got my first olive-colored egg yesterday and it was really pretty, a rich deep olive green color. Not sure how long I will keep my cream legbar Roo, but if i keep him long enough to get fertile eggs and incubate them, i should end up with females that are all olive eggers, correct?

Correct, although you may create progeny that soften the Olive color that the hen lays as your adding Blue from the Roo over the hens Olive color, they will be varying shades. The same theory with using a Marans (dark brown egg gene) Roo over Olive Egger, you'll most likely darken the Olive shade and/or add speckles.

I'd also expect you'll create sex links if the Olive Eggers are not Barred or Crested. All female progeny from CCL x OE will be barred with crests as the Roo passes this to his daughters only.

 

[LtDanFan]

I'd also expect you'll create sex links if the Olive Eggers are not Barred or Crested. All female progeny from CCL x OE will be barred with crests as the Roo passes this to his daughters only.

I wonder if this explains why my OE’s have crests and barring causing me to temporarily get confused and think i magically had 4 CCL pullets when I only hatched out 2…. until i remembered that i bought 2 OE’s from Fleet Farm this spring, lol. I am guessing they are F1 OE’s from CCL roo and Maran (or other brown egg layer) hens.

But cool to know, this would make it easier to weed out the cockerels before they get big enough to be obnoxious i suppose.

 

[wrathsfarm]

I wonder if this explains why my OE’s have crests and barring causing me to temporarily get confused and think i magically had 4 CCL pullets when I only hatched out 2…. until i remembered that i bought 2 OE’s from Fleet Farm this spring, lol. I am guessing they are F1 OE’s from CCL roo and Maran (or other brown egg layer) hens.

But cool to know, this would make it easier to weed out the cockerels before they get big enough to be obnoxious i suppose.

This thread might be useful...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...lack-copper-maran-hen-for-green-eggs.1228802/

 

[NatJ]

I'd also expect you'll create sex links if the Olive Eggers are not Barred or Crested. All female progeny from CCL x OE will be barred with crests as the Roo passes this to his daughters only.

No, you have that backwards.

A rooster passes barring to both his sons and his daughters. The sexlink cross takes a barred hen and a rooster with no barring.

I wonder if this explains why my OE’s have crests and barring causing me to temporarily get confused and think i magically had 4 CCL pullets when I only hatched out 2…. until i remembered that i bought 2 OE’s from Fleet Farm this spring, lol. I am guessing they are F1 OE’s from CCL roo and Maran (or other brown egg layer) hens.

But cool to know, this would make it easier to weed out the cockerels before they get big enough to be obnoxious i suppose.

If the Olive Eggers have barring and generally look like Cream Legbars, and the rooster is a Cream Legbar, you might be able to sex the chicks the same way you would sex pure Cream Legbar chicks.

 

[wrathsfarm]

No, you have that backwards.

A rooster passes barring to both his sons and his daughters. The sexlink cross takes a barred hen and a rooster with no barring.


If the Olive Eggers have barring and generally look like Cream Legbars, and the rooster is a Cream Legbar, you might be able to sex the chicks the same way you would sex pure Cream Legbar chicks.

Oops, I apologize for the misinformation...thank you for the correction.

 

[LtDanFan]

No, you have that backwards.

A rooster passes barring to both his sons and his daughters. The sexlink cross takes a barred hen and a rooster with no barring.


If the Olive Eggers have barring and generally look like Cream Legbars, and the rooster is a Cream Legbar, you might be able to sex the chicks the same way you would sex pure Cream Legbar chicks.

Yes, that’s what I have. I went back and looked up the description on the farm and fleet website and they state that to create the F1 chicks they sell they use a Cream Legbar rooster over a Welsummer hen, which makes sense to me with what my girls look like and what i can expect. Not sure if I will be able to keep my CCL rooster long enough to get to have fertile hatching eggs from my hens as they are just now starting to lay and from watching him mount (I’ve only seen it a couple of times) he is very clumsy. But if i do end up with OE x CCL hatching eggs at least i know what the offspring will look like and what color eggs they will lay.