Olive egger but no olive eggs???

[HighNDryFarm]

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They DO!!

So anyone know why I get green eggs from my combination of chickens when you're not supposed to? Maybe the roo has more to tell us about his family?

 

[Tikkijane]

I think I have one of these- the only one of my EEs that is laying gives a dark greeny/olive egg. She is also the only one out of my EEs that is not bearded, fwiw. I was wondering. One of these days, I'll have to take a pic, but she is not a regular layer. In the two weeks since she started laying, she's only given us 4, maybe 5 eggs.....

Update: since I started writing this, my second EE just laid her first egg- sooo light blue it's almost white!

Tikki

 

[HighNDryFarm]

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Congrats on all the eggs! I've had chickens for over 30 years and I still get egg-sited

when a new chicken lays her first eggs!

Do you know what the parents of your beardless EE were? Does she have muffs?

Still waiting for some suggestions from the pro's as to how I get all these green eggs from chickens who's mom's didn't lay dark brown eggs...anyone?

I'm thinking of asking the same question on the "green egg" thread someone just started, but hate to double post.

 

[Tikkijane]

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Nope, no muffs, either. She is still the biggest ones out of the EEs, and otherwise her coloring and her legs are the same.

I suppse this is not entirely surprising since they are EEs.

All of ours are hathery birds, so we're out of luck. She looked like the traditional chipmunk when we got her, and they only had 4 kinds: BRs, BOs, EEs, and PRs, all of which we got.

Out of the 13 (ages 24.5-23 weeks tomorrow), only 5 are laying. But we're getting there!

 

[WelsummerCrowers]

I have an OE, I was told that she was an Ameraucana
and Black Copper Maran mix. She gives me olive eggs.