Olive Egger egg possibilities

[LtDanFan]

I love this stuff!! I will definitely look at the next green egg i crack open and note color of the inside of the shell. I may be trrible at telling the difference between light blue and white though. Is the inside a true BLUE blue? I have yet to crack open a blue egg, of which I have more than green ones but i guess that will be my answer.
From the description of the origin of my girls, i assume it will be blue, but i will check for sure.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

I love this stuff!! I will definitely look at the next green egg i crack open and note color of the inside of the shell. I may be trrible at telling the difference between light blue and white though. Is the inside a true BLUE blue? I have yet to crack open a blue egg, of which I have more than green ones but i guess that will be my answer.
From the description of the origin of my girls, i assume it will be blue, but i will check for sure.

I occasionally still buy crappy (but cheap!) grocery store eggs to make deviled eggs. I keep a shell to serve as a color standard for white shells. Don’t know if that would be useful.

Also, I don’t know if the blue shell gene can get diluted with repeated breeding to white egg layers. Chicken sex-linked genetics are waaay more complicated than human!

 

[LtDanFan]

I occasionally still buy crappy (but cheap!) grocery store eggs to make deviled eggs. I keep a shell to serve as a color standard for white shells. Don’t know if that would be useful.

I know what I’ll do. I will just tell my bf that i need (NEED) a white egg layer to so that i have white egg shells to compare to the inside of my blue shells. Bam! Just justified at least 2 more hens. I mean, i have to get more than one so the one laying white eggs doesn’t feel singled out. But then again, technically i should probably plan to get three because the hatcheries will not ship less than 3 chicks. And then, sometimes the hatchery sends extras so maybe I’ll end up with like 4 or 5.

 

[McChooky]

Blue, green and olive eggs are wonderful but my favorite eggs are the welsummers and leghorns. Never broken one in my pockets before!

 

[LtDanFan]

Blue, green and olive eggs are wonderful but my favorite eggs are the welsummers and leghorns. Never broken one in my pockets before!

Yet another reason to get more chimkins!! Lol. I was thinking about getting a marans or 4.

 

[McChooky]

The marans make the cutest chicks. They're fluffy and rounder lol

 

[SamLockwood]

My understanding is if they're first generation olive eggers, you could get brown, blue, or green eggs depending on the exact genetics of the parents.

If you want the really dark olive layers you've got to breed a second-generation olive egger. I think the combination is a green-laying hen with a rooster that has brown-egg genes.

My current flock is equal numbers of first and second generation birds, a few are cream legbars & the rest olive eggers, and it's a roughly equal distribution of brown, green, and blue layers. One of the 2nd generation hens lays a very dark brown egg, and two others lay the dark olive eggs. Total laying hens right now are 17.

 

[McChooky]

My understanding is if they're first generation olive eggers, you could get brown, blue, or green eggs depending on the exact genetics of the parents.

If you want the really dark olive layers you've got to breed a second-generation olive egger. I think the combination is a green-laying hen with a rooster that has brown-egg genes.

My current flock is equal numbers of first and second generation birds, a few are cream legbars & the rest olive eggers, and it's a roughly equal distribution of brown, green, and blue layers. One of the 2nd generation hens lays a very dark brown egg, and two others lay the dark olive eggs. Total laying hens right now are 17.

One of my chicks is a welsummer legbar roo cross. The other 4 are brown leghorn and legbar roo crosses. I'm still having a hard time determining which one is which. One of the cockerels is smaller than the other so maybe that's a clue

 

[McChooky]

My understanding is if they're first generation olive eggers, you could get brown, blue, or green eggs depending on the exact genetics of the parents.

If you want the really dark olive layers you've got to breed a second-generation olive egger. I think the combination is a green-laying hen with a rooster that has brown-egg genes.

My current flock is equal numbers of first and second generation birds, a few are cream legbars & the rest olive eggers, and it's a roughly equal distribution of brown, green, and blue layers. One of the 2nd generation hens lays a very dark brown egg, and two others lay the dark olive eggs. Total laying hens right now are 17.

Thanks for the suggestions! I want a flock that looks similar but lays all different color eggs(green, blue ,white and brown eggs) I only hatch chicks from my brown leghorns and welsummers and only have one roo(legbar)

 

[McChooky]

A couple of the chicks...