olive eggers

[Spring Chook]

Can someone please explain very simply how to breed an olive egger.

I have a black copper marans roo
an olive egger hen (bought, not bred by me - she lays a good olive coloured egg)
easter egger hens
black copper marans hens

I have hatched 10 eggs from the above ladies and am wondering what sort of eggs to expect from them in 6 months time

oh, and what will the roos be?!

 

[ramirezframing]

pure marans or olive egger rooster are what you will have in males, same with the females

 

[Spring Chook]

that's what I was hoping. I was wondering how the genetics work. Which genes are dominant etc?

 

[ramirezframing]

well I know brown and blue make olive eggers, marans brown to marans brown is marans brown, brown to olive might give you a darker olive or a muddy brown look.