Olive Eggers

[Smileybans]

These six are 8 weeks old. I hatched them from eggs and was told they were f1 and f2 olive eggers. Some look like they’re getting straight combs and only two look like they might be females. I’m only beginning with chickens but the ones with the green bands on their feet are the ones that spar the most, and have the reddest combs. So i thought maybe boys. Are they still too young to tell if hen or roo? Would anyone have a guess at the one with the black combs parentage? I asked the person i got the eggs from but they couldn’t tell me.
I tried to get good pictures of their combs but my camera decided to focus on other things in some pictures. They’re also all so skiddish i try not to scare them too much by grabbing them.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Can you repost photos in "full image" instead of thumbnail and number the birds 1 throught 6? Hard to tell which bird is which. From what I can tell at least 2 look to be male.

 

[CluckerFamily]

I'm not seeing anything that really pops out as cockerel right now. Around 12 weeks is when those cockerel saddle feathers start coming in. The sparing can be done by pullets too, they are trying to figure out who is top on the pecking order. EE's are really trick to sex at a young age but it is fun to make guesses and to see who is right. I have a hen who is named Vinnie because I swore she was a cockerel... nope... it was a pullet and the name stayed.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Oh, and welcome to BYC!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

To answer your other question. Your F1s are likely the ones with the pea type combs and the F2s have the single (straight) combs. This is not knowing what breeds were used to create them. Do any of them have feathered legs? I can't tell in the photos. Classically, an F1 that looks like your birds will be an ameraucana crossed with a black copper marans and an F2 would be the pullets of these crossed back to a black copper marans. F2s will have darker olive green eggs, but also increases your chances of having a dark brown egg layer instead.
Photo of my F1 olive egger and her egg for reference.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Assuming the F1 olive eggers you hatched came from blue eggs and the F2 were similar to my photo above?

 

[Painted Calls]

I'm not seeing anything that screams cockerel. Post updated pics in 2 more weeks.

 

[Smileybans]

Can you repost photos in "full image" instead of thumbnail and number the birds 1 throught 6? Hard to tell which bird is which. From what I can tell at least 2 look to be male.

Sure... I didn’t know i had done that. I’m new to the site and still unsure with technology really. But i will try to post better pictures.

 

[Smileybans]

Assuming the F1 olive eggers you hatched came from blue eggs and the F2 were similar to my photo above?

Some of the olive eghers came from eggs like yours. Two have feathered legs and muffs. The rest have no feathers and only one i can tell has muffs of the non-feathered footed. I did hatch some that were in brown eggs. But my Easter egger came from a brown egg so i thought it was normal.

 

[Smileybans]

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