olive eggers?

[Vanessabuffsnsilkies]

What does an olive egger chick look like? please post pics if possible, thanks

 

[ChickenWisperer]

There is no certain "look" to an olive egger.


Olive eggers, at their base, are EasterEggers - so, they can look like anything. I'm guessing most will have the usual "chipmunk" coloring.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I can't upload photos at the moment because my service is messed up, but I have some Olive eggers from Wynette. 3 are black (have the BCM chick look) and 1 is blue. It depends what they are crossed with though. They can have virtually any look depending on what breeds you cross to get them.

 

[Suburban Sprouts]

Like the other said... Olive eggers can look like just about anything because they are a result of crossing a blue egg layer and a brown egg layer... So there is potential for ANY color or pattern in the rainbow... especially when you throw in the EE varieties in the mix!

I have found that the olive eggers you see on BYC the most are black, blue and barred (so a chick of these colors would look like a black copper maran chick, a blue ameraucana chick or a cuckoo maran chick... these are just examples).

Also, if an olive egger chick grows a straight comb, it will lay brown, not green, eggs.... must have a pea comb to lay the green ones. So even "olive egger" chicks could end up brown egg layers.

But the FUN is in the anticipation and mystery!!!

 

[Gallusfarm]

Ours is quite striking... This is an Easter Egger x Welsummer

 

[TheNat]

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[Vanessabuffsnsilkies]

Thanks, I have some EE's that are grey, white, black and some chipmunky looking...different from last year. I bought them from a small local livestock auction. The same man from last year brought them in. The reason I asked is that one has feathers on its legs. Some have slate legs and some have green legs.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Here's an olive egger I have from Ruth's eggs. His coppering has since come in on the hackle feathers.

 

[Bocktobery 10]

I think the OP just wants to see the diffrent variety they can be. I'm with that. I hope more photos are to follow. I'm very curious about it too.


Here are mine:

I got 3 from My Pet Chicken last year. Beautiful chicks- healthy as can be. Here they are as young pullets. Sorry I don't have any recent but they look the same practically. Well, except the first one pictured, grey with a tuft of feathers on her head (most likely Creme Legbar cross) - I lost her to the "road god", first time to have had that happen, which made me very upset as she was quickly becoming a new favorite. I loved the 'hairdo'. I never saw her eggs, but the other two lay a decent green egg... not dark green, but most def green, not pastel green like you might get from an easter egger.. Anyway, here they are... Sorry for not having full body shots...


Patty Pie... (please no jokes about the irony.

Loved her and was most eggcited about the egg color she'd lay. When she's take a sun bath, she would stretch out the plumage on her head like a fan.)


Daphne.. (She has some sparse feathers on her feet. She is all a mottled dark/light grey. Not particularly friendly, keeps close to brooder mates, not flighty either.)


Poppy... (She has the puffy cheek feathers and booted feet. She is all black and is a quiet girl.)