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Hi,
I'm new to the list but not to chickens. My daughter and I love our chickens and have fun seeing what color eggs and chicks that we get. I've been trying to figure out how the Olive Egger colors go. When you have Olive Eggers, so you get dark brown and olive colored eggs or are they all olive colored. Also, I have found some charts and it shows blue with dark brown and blue with light brown (Easter Egger) But does anyone know what color you get if you breed an Easter Egger with a dark brown egg layer? Thanks for the info and letting me join.
Sheri
 
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hello and welcome to the BYC flock. I'm sorry I know nothing about genetics but, I'm sure the forthcoming responders will have much to offer.
 
Welcome to BYC. Glad you decided to join our flock. Olive Eggers are Easter Eggers that lay olive colored eggs. If they do not lay olive colored eggs, then they are just Easter Eggers but not Olive Eggers. Easter Eggers are produced by crossing blue egg laying breeds (usually Ameraucanas) with other breeds to produce offspring that lay eggs in different colors other than just blue. To produce Easter Eggers that lay olive eggs (Olive Eggers), blue egg layers are crossed with chocolate egg layers (usually Marans, but you can also use Welsummers, Barnevelders, Empordanesas, or Pendesencas). There is a good article explaining the differences between Araucanas, Ameraucanas, Easter Eggers, and Olive Eggers at http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2011/09/ameraucana-easter-egger-or-araucana.html. If you breed an Easter Egger with a dark brown egg layer, you will only get an Olive Egger if the EE parent gives the blue egg gene to the offspring, but since EEs are hybrids with another egg color gene (usually brown) as well, you may also just get a brown egg. Please feel free to ask any other questions you may have. We are here to help in any way we can. Good luck with your flock.
 
Hello there and welcome to BYC!
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I too know nothing about these birds.
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But Michael seems to have you on a good path to all the learning.

Enjoy all your adventures and welcome to our flock!
 
Welcome to BYC!
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We're glad to have you.

You've received some excellent advice already.
 
My RIR cross EE( maybe he's an Americana )
Lays olive coloured eggs. The shells are blue on the inside, consistently olive outside.
Welcome to BYC :)
 

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