Name this breed

[Ajoy1955]

I was told that this pullet is a Sapphire Olive Egger … when I bought her, but my girl at TSC say she is a Wyandotte… please settle this debate …she clearly has the signature head tuft

 

[Yardmom]

Wyandottes have rose combs, so not a wyandotte.

 

[Ajoy1955]

Wyandottes have rose combs, so not a wyandotte.

Yes I agree

 

[-Chanticleer-]

That’s an olive egger.

 

[Galaxy_rules]

Olive egger

 

[ChickyWhicky]

Looks just like my sapphire olive eggers

 

[Ajoy1955]

That’s an olive egger.

Is it possible that her first several eggs that she lays could be light brown and change to a green egg as she matures?!

 

[-Chanticleer-]

Green is just brown over blue

A olive egger hen produces a brown pigment that penetrates the blue shell of the egg, resulting in a greenish-hued egg. The darker the brown pigment, the more olive-colored the egg appears.

If it comes out completely brown and you crack it and the inside of the shell isn’t blue then it’s a brown laying hen. Sometimes that can happen if both parents of the OE carried the brown egg gene.

 

[Yardmom]

Olive Eggers are often bred using dark brown egg gened roos and a blue or green egg layer. If the blue (green) egg layer had a only 1 blue egg gene half of the offspring will lay brown eggs. If 2 olive eggers were bred together pretty good chance that both parents are only carrying one blue gene, so that also will create 25 percent brown egg layers.