Olive Egger egg possibilities

[Rooski456]

My chickens are all starting to lay and I’m trying to piece together who is laying what. I currently have a light brown egg I have not been able to figure out who is laying. My olive egger is starting to get a lot more vocal and exploring the nest box so I expected her to lay soon. I’m not sure if the egg is coming from her as I’ve read green is not guaranteed. I contacted the breeder to figure out her background and was told she comes from a cuckoo maran rooster and Ameraucana hen. What are the possible egg colors we could get? Share your olive egger eggs!
Attached photo of my girl and today’s eggs. Number 3 is the egg in question.

 

[Buckeye Amy]

With that combination in her parentage I would expect olive/dark olive eggs from her. Out of curiosity, was the Ameraucana mother black?

Here's a photo of an olive egg (upper right) compared to blue and light brown from my own birds. The olive egg hen is a Welsummer x CCL cross.

 

[Rooski456]

With that combination in her parentage I would expect olive/dark olive eggs from her. Out of curiosity, was the Ameraucana mother black?

Here's a photo of an olive egg (upper right) compared to blue and light brown from my own birds. The olive egg hen is a Welsummer x CCL cross.

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No idea what color the mother had. I went back and checked the business website and realized it was an Americana so I’m assuming not a true blue layer. That olive egg is beautiful and exactly what I expected. I camped out the coop today and confirmed my “olive egger” is laying the brown egg in question.

 

[Rooski456]

Camped out the chicken coop today and caught the “Olive egger” laying. These are her brown eggs

 

[WingItRanch]

I'm sorry! That's a bummer! I just added 6 Olive Eggers to my flock this year. 5/6 lay a variety of olive. One lays brown.

Here's a basket full of the greens to show the variety

 

[Buckeye Amy]

Glad you figured it out! I think the best part of breeding my own colored egg layers is waiting to see what I get. With the Americana (Easter egger) in the original pair, you do have a chance of getting a brown egg. I've been lucky in that so far my EE crosses have laid green eggs in varying shades.

Something else I noticed about the hen in your picture is she's missing the muffs and beard that an Ameraucana has. Not all Easter Eggers have them (I have a few beardless, muffless mixes) but Ameraucanas do.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Glad you figured it out! I think the best part of breeding my own colored egg layers is waiting to see what I get. With the Americana (Easter egger) in the original pair, you do have a chance of getting a brown egg. I've been lucky in that so far my EE crosses have laid green eggs in varying shades.

Something else I noticed about the hen in your picture is she's missing the muffs and beard that an Ameraucana has. Not all Easter Eggers have them (I have a few beardless, muffless mixes) but Ameraucanas do.

Yes, my Easter Egger is clean-shaven, lol.

We do have a second EE, 9 weeks and just added, and she does have some random sproutings of feathers around her head, but I think it’s just the adolescent molt.

 

[Rooski456]

I'm sorry! That's a bummer! I just added 6 Olive Eggers to my flock this year. 5/6 lay a variety of olive. One lays brown.

Here's a basket full of the greens to show the variety
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Those are so beautiful! We would have been happy with either of those colors. Talk about having bad luck getting the brown egg my poor husband was so bummed as he’s the one who picked an olive egger.

 

[Rooski456]

Glad you figured it out! I think the best part of breeding my own colored egg layers is waiting to see what I get. With the Americana (Easter egger) in the original pair, you do have a chance of getting a brown egg. I've been lucky in that so far my EE crosses have laid green eggs in varying shades.

Something else I noticed about the hen in your picture is she's missing the muffs and beard that an Ameraucana has. Not all Easter Eggers have them (I have a few beardless, muffless mixes) but Ameraucanas do.

I’ll be honest I didn’t really ask any questions when I got her, they sold her as an olive egger so I assumed olive egger lol. It wasn’t until I couldn’t figure out the egg that I really started asking questions and was told Ameraucana. The birds listed they sell only has Americana so obviously mama just a mix. Had I known that information about parents sooner I would have probably questioned it more.

 

[Rooski456]

Yes, my Easter Egger is clean-shaven, lol.

We do have a second EE, 9 weeks and just added, and she does have some random sproutings of feathers around her head, but I think it’s just the adolescent molt.

I think it’s so funny how they decide to pop up or not pop up. I bought three Easter eggers from a farmer down the way (expecting just a total backyard mix) and they have them and my little mutt rooster looks kinda like a brown red Ameraucana