Need help with breed, is she really a Sapphire Olive Egger

[Susan1981lic]

She looks like she is an olive egger, she does have some barred rock markings though? I am still learning to tell breeds, but she defiantly has more marks then the images of olive eggs of have found. Here are egg colors though, the first is barred rock and the second is olive egger.

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Hello and thanks for your reply. I’m glad to know the size of the eggs will usually increase. Yup, the 2nd group of eggs you posted was what I was really expecting...but nope

 

[Susan1981lic]

Unfortunately around 10-15% of "olive eggers" have a chance of laying a brown tinted egg.

Thanks for your reply

 

[Oncoming Storm]

Hello, This is my first time posting but have been reading a lot in these forums for the last 5 months and love it! I am a first time chicken owner. My question is when I bought my girl London, she was sold as a Sapphire Olive Egger. Well...she is now 17 weeks old and began laying yesterday (my first girl to lay of my 7) I was really expecting to get a shade of green egg from her and also a large egg. Instead I got a small ( half the size of a large store boughten egg in a light brown cream color, Instead of green. The egg is about the size my guineas lay. Any ideas if she is really a Sapphire Olive egger....or what breed could she be? Thanks for your help.

I have a “sapphire olive egger” that is blue not barred. She struggles with soft shell for some reason but all the eggs I get are shades of brown or pink.

 

[The Happster]

She looks OE to me.
The cuckoo effect presumably comes from Marans, which combined with the CLB crest makes me sure she's OE.

 

[Susan1981lic]

I have a “sapphire olive egger” that is blue not barred. She struggles with soft shell for some reason but all the eggs I get are shades of brown or pink.

Thanks for your reply. Sorry to hear she struggles with soft egg shells. They color you are getting sounds exactly what I’m getting too.

 

[Susan1981lic]

She looks OE to me.
The cuckoo effect presumably comes from Marans, which combined with the CLB crest makes me sure she's OE.

Thanks for your reply

 

[Susan1981lic]

If she did lay that egg, then she may be barred rock. Olive egger's lay zombie green eggs and barred rock, cream colored.

Thank you for your reply

 

[Susan1981lic]

Are you positive she laid that egg?

Yes, see my reply to Finnie

 

[Weeg]

Wait, I think we found a match! Barred Olive egger, that is why she has the barred markings like a barred rock! She's a cutie!

 

[The Happster]

Wait, I think we found a match! Barred Olive egger, that is why she has the barred markings like a barred rock! She's a cutie!
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The OP's bird has 'cuckooing'.
The majority of Olive Eggers will presumably be Marans × Cream Legbar, (dark brown eggs × blue eggs making the olive eggs) so I would imagine the cuckooing comes from the Cuckoo Marans parent.

You're right that bird is similar.