Olive egger roo colors and genetics

[GrymGhoul]

Acquired a new roo to replace my butthead roo. He's an olive egger. His father was a welsummer/CCL. His mother is any of the following: pencil Plymouth rock, ameraucana, lavender orpington, or Rhode island blue.

I will say, all his chicks have laid green eggs. Some brown, mostly green. I got him and a small flock of OEs. They're hard molting right now, so they're very rough looking. There's 5. One has the standard EE brown, one is black, one is black and grey(?), then two that are similar to a CCL in color.

My hens are three mutts, golden comets, buff and chocolate orpington, a black star, and an olive egger.

Will get photos of the hens when I get a chance to band them, attached is a photo of Zorg and my hens with old roo

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Looks like his father was the lavender orpington or Rhode Island blue

 

[OldGreg]

I'm still new to this, but I've got an "olive egger" (allegedly) that I can't figure out. She's all grey, and I don't get any olive eggs lol. She's only about 11 months, and she was right on the edge of laying/not laying yet when it started to get dark last year. The quantity of eggs I'm collecting tells me she's responsible for some of my breakfast sandwiches, but I haven't seen a green egg yet!

 

[kattabelly]

I'm still new to this, but I've got an "olive egger" (allegedly) that I can't figure out. She's all grey, and I don't get any olive eggs lol. She's only about 11 months, and she was right on the edge of laying/not laying yet when it started to get dark last year. The quantity of eggs I'm collecting tells me she's responsible for some of my breakfast sandwiches, but I haven't seen a green egg yet!

There's often a chance that "easter eggers" / "olive eggers" wil just lay white or brown. If she's laying now and you haven't seen any green/olive eggs, then she must not lay that colour.

 

[OldGreg]

There's often a chance that "easter eggers" / "olive eggers" wil just lay white or brown. If she's laying now and you haven't seen any green/olive eggs, then she must not lay that colour.

Thank you. I've been driving myself nuts thinking there must be a hidden nest somewhere or something. I think I needed to hear this to just let it go.

 

[kattabelly]

Thank you. I've been driving myself nuts thinking there must be a hidden nest somewhere or something. I think I needed to hear this to just let it go.

If you're definitely sure that you've collected eggs that included one laid by her, and none of them were green/olive, then she must not be laying that colour. If there's a chance you haven't seen any of her eggs (maybe you have ten hens and collected ten eggs one day, but one could've been laid late the previous day after you'd already collected that day's eggs or been hidden in the nest material so you missed it) then it's possible she's laying somewhere secret or hasn't started laying yet.

Without knowing more about your setup it's impossible to guess how likely either of those possibilities are.