My Handsome Olive Egger Boy, Eddie ... and I’d Love to See Pics of Yours!

[TheOddOneOut]

So maybe one of the parents was a cross, carrying only one barring gene

Likely.
There's just no way for it to be female looking like that at that age.

 

[CalBickieMomma]

How is yours now?
Also, that is NOT a pullet at 7 weeks, lol.

Sorry! My reply was meant for Bsouthard ! And here’s my Eddie now (the close up was taken about a month or so ago. The other two are pretty recent). He has some cream striped feathers mixed in with the regular black and white ones.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

I know...I’m saying that’s NOT a pullet.
He’s so handsome!!!

 

[Poultrybonkers]

Sorry! My reply was meant for Bsouthard ! And here’s my Eddie now (the close up was taken about a month or so ago. The other two are pretty recent). He has some cream striped feathers mixed in with the regular black and white ones.

I don't think he's an olive egger at all as they would either have pea combs from ameraucana or a crest from a parent being a legbar unless they used a welsunmer rooster over a barred hen males would be barred hens would be solid but feet look white.

 

[CalBickieMomma]

I don't think he's an olive egger at all as they would either have pea combs from ameraucana or a crest from a parent being a legbar unless they used a welsunmer rooster over a barred hen males would be barred hens would be solid but feet look white.

I did finally manage to contact the breeder and they told me their Olive Eggers this year were a Cuckoo Marans / Cream Legbar cross (which makes sense because his sister has a little feather crest and lays green eggs (though not as deep olive as I’d hoped), and Eddie has the cream overtones on his striped feathers (so he more resembles a Cream Legbar roo).
So I guess they aren’t the Olive Egger cross most people are used to, but they have the blue and dark brown egg color gene from both their parents .
Now I’m super tempted to put my Easter Egger hen in with him (she lays light green eggs) to see what kind of egg color their offspring would lay (but with my luck I’d end up with mostly roos and I have nowhere to put them and I don’t have the heart to eat them ).

 

[Pentatonchix]

Do you have any pictures of the sister?

 

[CalBickieMomma]

Do you have any pictures of the sister?

Yup! Here’s Zinnia.

 

[BUTT NUGGETS EXPRESS]

Yup! Here’s Zinnia.

Looks like my cuckoo try to cross the f1olive Eggers back to the matan again eggs should come out a little darker f2s