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Thoughts on this..... anyone with OliveEgger or EE experience

"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."
 
Blarneyeggs said:
Awww! I hope she gets better soon for you.

Ray!! I've got a bator running now…are you trying to get me thrown out?! Nice looking whites by the way! I looked at their BCMs and it seems as if they have a Wyandotte Roo in there too.

And what is it with those English and their Roundy Chickens?? Their Orpingtons are rather rotund as well.
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But Blarney, you've got that nice White Marans hen that has no Roo !!! I really like that hen,, and I don't normally like white, I only have one white bird here, a Cochin hen, and mostly because she was so sweet and pretty as a pullet.
 
Sally Sunshine said:
http://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/science-of-fermented-feed/

Mama I read up on it a while ago and I mean read! this is my fav link in regards  ADDING BRUCE ferments his feed!
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I've been feeding FF since October.I do just a small bucket and strainer. I only have 5 egg layers. Birds liked it in the beginning but then my ferment got really strong and they quit eating it. I will be starting over again. I use layena pellets sratch grains and boss.
http://naturalchickenkeeping.blogspot.com/?m=1
 
mama2my4 said:
2 more babies out! Calico silkies, including the one I dropped last week!
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mama2my4 said:
YAY!!

Yep. I was devastated that I dropped it. Well here she is. The baby that shouldn't have lived.


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Nice to hear that you could save that egg / chick, especially since it's one of your project birds. Hope it's a " she " for ya !


Sally Sunshine said:
Thoughts on this..... anyone with OliveEgger or EE experience

"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."
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Makes sense as far as genetics, guessing Heather could answer this.
Guess you have to have a good strategy plan when shooting for olive eggers, should probably cross back to the Ameraucanas.

All of your Olive eggs hatch with straight combs ?
 
Sally Sunshine said:
Thoughts on this..... anyone with OliveEgger or EE experience

"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."

 
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I followed a pretty intense conversation about this once. The final verdict seemed to be that the blue/green laying gene and the pea comb gene are closely related, on the same DNA strand, or some such thing so they USUALLY go together. I happen to have a pea comb girl, green legs, hatched from a green egg and...she lays brown. I've heard she is in the 3% that do, lucky me. I really should play the lottery.

Ray, I do so like that White Marans girl, and she is all alone...

Missy says I should come here for my weather updates...I've heard it's going to be 22 degrees here today, I'm going to put a heat lamp out with the broody and her 6 week olds. My EEs have finally started coming into the coop at night. 22 yr old ended up staying at a friend's closer to civilization so she could get to work this morning.
 

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