Please help me with breeding for olive eggers!

[Prettyhorse32]

Hi All, I am looking for advise on breeding for olive egger's.. I know you need a brown egg with a blue egg gene but what breeds do best..
I have BLRW roos and I have a RIR roo, my hens are true ameracaunas, marans, rir, ...a few EE and Buff orpingtons...
Thanks

 

[Kelsie2290]

For olive eggers you want a dark brown egg layer, most people cross something like a Marans, Welsummer or Penedesenca to a blue/green egg layer, both the darker the better. If you only have BLRW and RIR roos and want OEs you are probably better off to get another rooster, either a Marans to use on your EEs and Ameraucana, or a Ameraucana roo to use on your Marans.
Long BYC thread on them with a lot of pics and crosses people have done.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/131131/the-olive-egger-thread

 

[onwingsofdragons]