How to get Olive Eggs?

[Illia]

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You'd just get brown eggs, possibly some green in there.


Any normal brown layer crossed with a blue or green layer gives, at the most, a normal green. To truly get the Olive look like in the photo shown above, your "brown" layer MUST be a dark egg layer.


And to answer, yes, dark eggs are indeed a beautiful red color. People like to call them chocolate brown, but honestly I consider them a blood red, the darker they are, the more reminiscent to thick blackened blood, like found near the liver.

 

[newchickens2009]

Just for good measure, does anyone have an idea of how egg production is with these olive eggers?

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

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I have a young lady here who lays beautiful olive green eggs. They are not as dark of an olive green as in the picture on the first page, however. They are more of a pastel olive green.


Her father was an EE, and her mother was a Buff Orpington.

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

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My little girl (EE father, Buff Orpington mother) lays regularly every other day... Very high quality eggs, I might add...