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[La Casa de Pollo]

Michelle, I have my first olive egger from you laying now! Nice egg! Again haha! This one is from the Wheaten/marans mix.

Stinker, she is under the coop in a corner where it is dark. I wanted to put her picture up. But here is a pic of the Silver Am/marans mix, she is ready anyday too. Pretty girls! The wheaten mix has not quite as much flecks on her neck, is a little fluffier, and has more comb. Pretty hard to tell them apart though, they have the same look. Love them

The marans in the background is one of yours..."Finkle" haha she has this look like "Ma! Why does she get all the attention!"

 

[pawtraitart]

Pretty olive egg! I miss seeing olive eggs in my basket. I sold all of my olive eggers so I don't get those right now. For next year, I'll have some really cool first generation olive eggers available, though. I'm going for a wide range of OE plumage color, something other than black. Those silver cross girls did turn out nice!

Okay...so I have to go to the store today. I can't put it off any longer. I did my best with makeup to hide the bruising around my eye.....but it still sucks. I took my stitches out yesterday.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Question Michelle---I have a friend who has some of your FBCM and some Wheaten/Blue Wheaten Ameraucanas---one rooster of each kind and several hens of each kind.

To make olive eggers, who should be the dad, the FBCM or the Ameraucana? Does it matter?

 

[pawtraitart]

It doesn't really matter, but I usually use ameraucana hens because their eggs are easier to candle/monitor in the incubator and typically hatch better for me than the dark marans eggs.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Well that makes perfect sense! Does the color of the chick come out different, do you know? If the mom/dad combo is different? Seems like most of the Olive Eggers are black, with a black marans dad, so was wondering if the Dad was a Wheaten, would the girl chicks be possibly buff or does the sex-link not work because they both have the red/gold hues somewhere in there?

 

[pawtraitart]

The OE I've raised have always been either silver hackled or copper hackled depending on if I used a wheaten or a silver ameraucana with the black copper marans. I've paired them both ways and never noticed any difference. They are all black at hatch.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Awesome, thanks for the info! I love the way they look just like they are

 

[Daloorashens]

Sheesh Michelle, you're a brave woman for pulling out those stitches, I'm a nurse and I'm not sure I could pull out my own stitches....

The OE's are interesting, the crosses... I've seen some cool pics of them on the OE thread... Some of them look just like the Ameracaunas with a few feathers on their shanks... the OE pullet I have is like that... similar feathering to a wheaten with a straight comb and a few feathers on her shanks... I suppose if you used wheaten marans and wheaten amers you'd get wheaten OE's=) The genetics fascinates me, seriously...

 

[idahobird]

so i recently got a copper maran roo is it true i will get olive eggers if i breed him to my easter eggers or do they have to be amaracaunas??

 

[pawtraitart]

There were only 5 stitches, so no big deal. It saved me a trip back to the ER.

Idahobird, it depends on if your Easter Eggers have one copy of the blue gene or two. What color/shade of egg do they lay? If they lean more towards pale blue, I'd say they probably don't have a copy of brown mixed in there. If they are more greenish, they could have a copy of brown.