Olive Eggs

[BerrytangleFarm]

I hatched some eggs from a local woman who was selling them for eating. She had a Blue Orpington rooster and several different hens (Blue orpington, Lakenvelder, Rhode Island Red, White Leghorn, Ameraucanas, gold-laced Wyandottes, Lakenvelder were the ones I knew of). One of the eggs we incubated that hatched was a huge olive egg. The chick's down is grey with some yellow spots. Any idea, with the blue orp roo, which hen laid the olive egg?

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Its out of an easter egger cross hen.

 

[BerrytangleFarm]

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Okay, then it would the the Ameraucana hen since I believe the hens are all purebred.

Thanks!

That means blue eggs from it if it's a hen? Or will they be olive as well?

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Without getting in to the whole "what is an is not a pure breed Ameraucana" debate, my understanding is to get the dark olive color requires crossing with a chocolate egg breed.


Anyway, I believe any hen from that egg would probably lay ether a brown egg or some shade of green.