Olive Egger laying brown eggs?

[Xylo]

Hi all! I bought this one year old hen who I was told was an olive egger. But she lays brown eggs! Is she perhaps a black Australorp instead?

 

[ChickyCh00k]

Her comb is not that of an australorp. She looks like an olive egger. Sometimes olive eggers lay brown eggs...did the person you bought her from say she lays green eggs or just call her an olive egger? Olive eggers are typically a cross between a brown egg layer and a blue egg layer, so there's some percentage of olive eggers that will lay brown.

 

[Xylo]

Her comb is not that of an australorp. She looks like an olive egger. Sometimes olive eggers lay brown eggs...did the person you bought her from say she lays green eggs or just call her an olive egger? Olive eggers are typically a cross between a brown egg layer and a blue egg layer, so there's some percentage of olive eggers that will lay brown.

I didn’t even think to ask what color eggs she lays because I didn’t know olive eggers could lay brown eggs. Whoops.

 

[ChickyCh00k]

I didn’t even think to ask what color eggs she lays because I didn’t know olive eggers could lay brown eggs. Whoops.

The person who sold her to you should have been straight forward about that. She's a pretty bird, but if they sold her to you as an "olive egger", assuming you'd think she'd lay green eggs (which is not unreasonable), and knowing she lays brown eggs, that's a bit deceptive.

 

[nuthatched]

The person who sold her to you should have been straight forward about that. She's a pretty bird, but if they sold her to you as an "olive egger", assuming you'd think she'd lay green eggs (which is not unreasonable), and knowing she lays brown eggs, that's a bit deceptive.

Very rarely is someone 100% of what bird lays what egg, unless you see it drop.

 

[ChickyCh00k]

Very rarely is someone 100% of what bird lays what egg, unless you see it drop.

All the more reason to disclose to the buyer that the hen might lay a brown egg, despite being an "olive egger".

 

[Sunnid7296]

Hi everyone im hoping these are all hens

19 weeks old.

The wyandottes are bottom of pecking order.

Im new to chickens these were all sold as pullets at farm n fleet.

 

[Anon112]

Olive Eggers can lay quite a range. I have two. One lays consistently blueish-green eggs, but the other has eggs that range from green looking to an olive-tinged brown (diet? mood? who knows). When she first started laying her eggs were pretty brown looking (very Welsummer-like), but they've gotten greener as time has gone on.

I now have two pullets that are the results of an EE mom and an EE rooster, and I'm interested to see what their eggs will look like.

If you search "olive egger egg" you can see what a range there is in color.

 

[Sunnid7296]

Olive Eggers can lay quite a range. I have two. One lays consistently blueish-green eggs, but the other has eggs that range from green looking to an olive-tinged brown (diet? mood? who knows). When she first started laying her eggs were pretty brown looking (very Welsummer-like), but they've gotten greener as time has gone on.

I now have two pullets that are the results of an EE mom and an EE rooster, and I'm interested to see what their eggs will look like.

If you search "olive egger egg" you can see what a range there is in color.

Interesting! Thank you my brother had one also he actually got mine so we are both curious on their eggs

 

[BigBlueHen53]

The person who sold her to you should have been straight forward about that. She's a pretty bird, but if they sold her to you as an "olive egger", assuming you'd think she'd lay green eggs (which is not unreasonable), and knowing she lays brown eggs, that's a bit deceptive.

Was the hen already laying when you bought it? If not, the seller could not guarantee what color egg the hen would lay. Even an Easter Egger may lay a brown egg.