Is this a olive egger pullet

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Hey guys I’ve got this little chick “she” is nearly 2 months old (hatched on Valentine’s Day) just wondering if “she” is what I was told she was... i was told she was an olive egger/EE.... her breed is arunacana x silkie x pekin.... she has the fluff on her head and from what I can tell only 4 toes and no blue ear lobes (so very little of the silkie gene has come out in her)....
 

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I don't see how that combo of breeds would get you an Olive Egger. AFAIK they are produced using a blue egg layer crossed with a Maran of some kind (or other dark brown egg layer). The Araucana would give you the blue but the other two lay white/cream/tinted eggs. So I suppose your bird is an EE if she ends up with blue eggs.
 
That comb looks awfully small, so I’d lean pullet too. My first setting of chicken eggs was a bunch of EEs, and I pretty reliably guessed sex based on the size of their feet and combs at about that age.

As for egg color, that’s tricky. My EEs had EE, RIR, and Gold Sex Link moms with an EE Roo. So far, I have some that lay green eggs, a couple that lay blue eggs, and some that lay brown. She is an EE because she has a heritage that includes that blue gene, but it remains to be seen on whether or not she actually got it.
 
I agree that OE are produced through blue eggers and dark (usually maran) egg layers. She is definitely a girl but whether or not she lays olive eggs is in the future. My thoughts are highly unlikely that it will be the same as ‘true’ OE’s. :)
 
I see no signs of Cochin or Silkie, since she has clean legs. Araucanas in Australia do have crests, so she's probably an Araucana mixed with something else. If that's true, then she could produce olive eggs if there was also a dark brown egg layer in her ancestry.
She’s arunacana x silkie/pekin mix... mum was the EE dad was the silkie/pekin
 
Thanks guys... I’ll just wait until she grows up and see what happens.... do you think she’s big enough to go out with my other silkies and bantams for night time or is she still too small... my bantam breeds all have there own house I have 4 other chicks out there with them but they are a little bit older
 

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