Olivians!!! The creation of olive egger hybrid LF lens!

[Mitsos Lamprogiorgos]

Which do you think is the best way to create olive egger hybrid hens?
I will call the final hybrid hen Olivian.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

To create an olive Egger you have to cross a rooster that has the blue egg gene over a hen that lays brown eggs. So marans roo X araucana rumples hen, barneveleder X araucana rumples hen, welsummer roo X araucana rumoless hen, & marans roo X Araucanian crested hen will not yield olive eggers. If you want dark green eggs cross the araucana, ameraucana, or cream legbar rooster of your choice over a marans hen.

 

[Mitsos Lamprogiorgos]

I will make my poll better. Marans have some hatching problems. I don't think that they are the best choice.

 

[Mitsos Lamprogiorgos]

I can't edit the poll. Sorry.

 

[Mitsos Lamprogiorgos]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...eation-of-olive-egger-hybrid-lf-lens.1214956/

 

[Egghead_Jr]

To create an olive Egger you have to cross a rooster that has the blue egg gene over a hen that lays brown eggs. So marans roo X araucana rumples hen, barneveleder X araucana rumples hen, welsummer roo X araucana rumoless hen, & marans roo X Araucanian crested hen will not yield olive eggers. If you want dark green eggs cross the araucana, ameraucana, or cream legbar rooster of your choice over a marans hen.

Where are you referencing that information from? There are threads here where people created olive eggers from dark brown egg cock over blue egg hens. So we know olive eggers can be made with either cross; are you saying they won't be as nice coloring?

A cool combination done before is Barnevelder over Cream Legbar to make sex-links. Males chicks will have spot on head.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/olive-eggers.1201969/#post-19040927

I like the looks of Welsummer eggs but believe the speckled will carry over and that probably isn't something you want on olive eggs.

 

[The Moonshiner]

It just takes a (pure for) blue egg layer crossed with a dark brown egg layer to make an olive egger.
Doesn't matter if the hen or rooster is the blue egg layer. It works either way.

To the OP... There is no reason to keep making multiple threads on the same topics.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Where are you referencing that information from? There are threads here where people created olive eggers from dark brown egg cock over blue egg hens. So we know olive eggers can be made with either cross; are you saying they won't be as nice coloring?

A cool combination done before is Barnevelder over Cream Legbar to make sex-links. Males chicks will have spot on head.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/olive-eggers.1201969/#post-19040927

I like the looks of Welsummer eggs but believe the speckled will carry over and that probably isn't something you want on olive eggs.

I was under the impression that it had to be a blue egg layer roo over brown egg layer hen. Thank you for informing me.

 

[Mitsos Lamprogiorgos]

It just takes a (pure for) blue egg layer crossed with a dark brown egg layer to make an olive egger.
Doesn't matter if the hen or rooster is the blue egg layer. It works either way.

To the OP... There is no reason to keep making multiple threads on the same topics.

Thank you. I created a new topic because I could not edit the question.
And the question was wrong.

 

[Sneebsey]

It makes no difference which parent is male/female, in regards to the blue and brown egg genes. It will, however, be somewhat hit-and-miss with regards to how many of the dark brown pigment genes pass down. Last year I hatched some F1s from an Araucana (crested) cockerel to RSL hens, more to enhance egg production and move toward the body-shape and features I want rather than for the egg colour, and was surprised to find that several of the pullets lay a decent olive colour already, some, however, lay an almost blue colour. Next year the darkest layers will be penned with my pure Black and Blue Copper Marans, as I can then breed them in the same pen as my pures.

My ideal is to move toward a bird with a production type, rather than the heavy-set Marans type, with a beard, but no crest. Think along the lines of an Ameraucana.

Of course, your chickens are your own, and if you prefer to breed to a certain type, that is your own vision.