Olive egger thread

[Emmaloveschickens9156]

I have one EE hen/pullet, and one of her eggs is actually under my broody! If it hatches there will be pics! The Dad is a French (floofy feets) black copper Marans, And the mama is my EE from the store.

 

[Victoria Peckham]

One of our mystery hens (now we know she is ann OE, right?) and one of our bantam EE have been sharing a secret nest. Found a dozen eggs yesterday!

 

[AnimalCrazed]

Hi y’all! I’m working on starting an olive/ Easter egger project. Would love to see photos of everyone’s blue or green layers and the crosses used create these wonderful birds!!
Definitely most interested in trying to find a balance in variety of physical color as well as egg color.

I've been crossing BCM hens to a Blue Ameraucana rooster, and have loved my results. The hens are black or blue sometimes with a beard and some without.

Then I started crossing those back to a AM for minty green and then a Welsummer to get speckles on the olive.

This year I have blue egg laying Crested Cream Legbar hens and I'm crossing my BCM rooster with them. Here are some pictures of my current Olive Egger hens and some of the eggs.

 

[Azulette]

Hodor, From Privett, Creme Legbar x Cuckoo Maran. I have 3 now because they're excellent layers
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Thank you for posting this! My feed store received olive eggers from Privett and I have been curious what they may look like since the Privett website is currently down. This store had some pictures of Privett olive egger birds (chicks and adult hen) but no picture of the eggs- https://douglasfeedandpetsupply.com/products/privett-hatchery-olive-egger.
My 2 chicks have the white dot on the head (were sold as pullets ).

 

[SandyRiverChick]

Thank you for posting this! My feed store received olive eggers from Privett and I have been curious what they may look like since the Privett website is currently down. This store had some pictures of Privett olive egger birds (chicks and adult hen) but no picture of the eggs- https://douglasfeedandpetsupply.com/products/privett-hatchery-olive-egger.
My 2 chicks have the white dot on the head (were sold as pullets ).

I noticed the site has been semi down for about 2 weeks. I have really good luck with Privett, I feel like they're good at chick sexing and the white dot has never turned out to be cockerel for me. But yeah fingers crossed!

 

[Azulette]

I noticed the site has been semi down for about 2 weeks. I have really good luck with Privett, I feel like they're good at chick sexing and the white dot has never turned out to be cockerel for me. But yeah fingers crossed!

Time will tell... but it's looking 50/50 at the moment:

OE#1's comb turned red at 3 weeks. OE#2's comb is getting larger too, and pinkish, but more concerning is that it is growing RAPIDLY in size - I swear it's grown about double the size of OE#1 over the past couple of weeks and generally seems to be feathering out faster (and the tail feathers came in sooner and it's feathering in the cutest little crest). OE#1 has more "white" (double barring gene?) in it that OE#2.

Bottom line, I'm having fun with them though and still hoping there's a chance that OE#2 is still a hen (I will have to rehome any cockerels). There's always next time!

 

[SandyRiverChick]

Time will tell... but it's looking 50/50 at the moment:

OE#1's comb turned red at 3 weeks. OE#2's comb is getting larger too, and pinkish, but more concerning is that it is growing RAPIDLY in size - I swear it's grown about double the size of OE#1 over the past couple of weeks and generally seems to be feathering out faster (and the tail feathers came in sooner and it's feathering in the cutest little crest). OE#1 has more "white" (double barring gene?) in it that OE#2.

Bottom line, I'm having fun with them though and still hoping there's a chance that OE#2 is still a hen (I will have to rehome any cockerels). There's always next time!

Oof, I'd be a bit nervous too! Fingers still crossed for you.