How can I "make" an olive egger?

[McChooky]

Something strange that I’ve found, in my flock at least, is that if I cross a blue egg roo with a brown egg hen, the eggs stay blue. But if I cross a brown egg roo with a blue egg hen, then it’s more green.
I still don’t have an olive yet, though.

I only raise smaller breeds because I like to free range. No marans or bigger breeds.

 

[McChooky]

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.

3 of my (4) week old legbar crosses have crests.One looks more like a cream legbar pullet than the other two but all three look like pullets. All 3 have small pale yellow combs, legs and feet. They don't have the black and white barred feathers like the cockerels.They're darker.Both of the cockerels have barred feathers and are lighter, they have bigger reddish orange combs, legs and feet but neither of them have crests

 

[McChooky]

3 of my (4) week old legbar crosses have crests.One looks more like a cream legbar pullet than the other two but all three look like pullets. All 3 have small pale yellow combs, legs and feet. They don't have the black and white barred feathers like the cockerels.They're darker.Both of the cockerels have barred feathers and are lighter, they have bigger reddish orange combs, legs and feet but neither of them have crests

This photo was taken of one of the pullets at 3 weeks old before the crests came in

 

[McChooky]

THe little cockerels are pretty obvious in my hatch.Their barred feathers and bigger,brighter combs stand out

 

[McChooky]

Legbar rooster cross (3 week old pullet)