Olive Eggers bred to olive is this commonly done

[Judykaymayes]

I am wanting to raise Olive Eggers and I want to know if the can be bred to Olive Eggers or bred to a Marans Rooster.
Thank you Judy Mayes

 

[RiDaGeckoGuy]

I had a maran rooster who I paired with an EE hen and got 3 little olive Eggers and I was going to sell the rooster son but then my maran passed so now when I want Eggers I put my olive Egger rooster with his EE mom, 2 OE sisters, and my first chicken I ever got a big maran hen.

 

[RiDaGeckoGuy]

 

[Jener8or]

The best way to make Olive Eggers is to breed a homozygous blue egg laying breed with a homozygous dark brown egg laying breed. If you breed OE to Marans or OE to OE, you are not guaranteed olive colored eggs.

OE to Marans will give you 50% olive eggers and 50% brown egg layers. OE to OE will give you 75% olive eggers and 25% brown egg layers.

You could breed the homozygous blue egg layer back to the olive egger and still have 100% olive eggers (but some will be darker shelled, and some will be lighter.)

I think 2 good breeds to start with would be Cream Legbar (since they are homozygous blue) and French Black Copper Marans (since they are some of the darkest brown laying Marans.)

 

[Judykaymayes]

I had a maran rooster who I paired with an EE hen and got 3 little olive Eggers and I was going to sell the rooster son but then my maran passed so now when I want Eggers I put my olive Egger rooster with his EE mom, 2 OE sisters, and my first chicken I ever got a big maran hen.

Have you got Olive Egger Eggs from this cross yet?

 

[RiDaGeckoGuy]

Have you got Olive Egger Eggs from this cross yet?

No they probably won’t reach breeding age until late November

 

[Judykaymayes]

Have you got Olive Egger Eggs from this cross yet?

I’m wanting to breed for Olive Eggers

 

[Judykaymayes]

No they probably won’t reach breeding age until late November

Do you expect Olive Eggers or EE that lay blue eggs

 

[RiDaGeckoGuy]

Do you expect Olive Eggers or EE that lay blue eggs

The dad was a French Black Copper Maran and the mom was a blue Americana so I believe and hope they will be olive. My cousin has one that has the exact same parents but was the only surviving olive Egger in its clutch (that’s one of the reasons why I gave it to him so that he could raise it with his shamos) and it should start laying any day now so I should know

 

[aart]

I think 2 good breeds to start with would be Cream Legbar (since they are homozygous blue) and French Black Copper Marans (since they are some of the darkest brown laying Marans.)

Yeppers!
After screwing around a couple years with EE's, I got some CLB hens and a BCM cock. All resulting females laid nice olive eggs, plus that cross is sex linked so you know right at hatch males from femlaes.