Post pictures of your olive eggers please

[TyRi]

Love my ladies’ green shimmer! Expecting them to start within the next few weeks with hopefully beautiful olive eggs!!

 

[Cheryli]

[Not so] Patiently waiting for the chicks we ordered from Meyer Hatchery (we ordered for a hatch date of April 29, so we have a ways to go yet). I have a pretty solid idea for what most of the chicks will look like, but we ordered one olive egger and from website photos it's a wildcard as to what that one's look like.

In the meantime, indulge me and share pictures of your olive Eggers. Adult or chicks, I just wanna look at pretty birds!

Here you go. Pics of my Olive Eggers

 

[AinaWGSD]

Lovely Limu is all grown up and was the first of the flock to start laying at 24 weeks! We got our first olive egg on Oct 16

She seems to lay every 3rd day

 

[SamLockwood]

My OE rooster, his two bearded OE ladies, and my molting cream legbar. All of them were from Meyer.

Two more of my meyer OE's, with another cream legbar in the background. The lighter OE lays blue eggs, though.

All of the above hens are about 2 years old, my roosters about a year and a half old.

One of my F2 OE's I bred from my birds. Mom is probably one of the cream legbars, dad is either the OE rooster or the cuckoo maran. The bulk of my 2nd generation hens are about 8 months old.

Another of the F2 OE's I bred. Dad is likely the blue copper maran roo.

My youngest OE pullet, one of two that were hatched in the coop & raised by my broody hens. Her first mommy (one of the bearded ladies) abandoned her at 3 weeks and one of the lighter OE's that lost her chick a few days earlier adopted her & finished raising her.

Two more of the F2 OE's. The one in the foreground is the second bearded / cresed bird I hatched. The one in the background looks like a goth cream legbar.

The bulk of my generation 2 OE's have that blue copper maran coloring of black fading to blue-gray at the tail. This is my one genetic anomaly, "Ghost." She's also a bit shy and molting. Curiously in spite of the light feathering she's one of two of the younger that lays a dark olive-green egg.

The bird in the forground is about a year old, with one of the 8-month-olds in the background.

This F2 OE got the most copper feathering out of the lot.

The same hen with her likely papa strutting into the scene, my blue copper maran roo.

 

[SJsChickies]

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This is ash my adorable baby! I absolutely adore this chicken she was the sweetest girl! Plus she layed such lovely olive eggs!!

She looks like mine! So beautiful. I was just told mine isn’t an olive egger though cause she doesn’t have a crest. Yours gives me hope that she still could be.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

She looks like mine! So beautiful. I was just told mine isn’t an olive egger though cause she doesn’t have a crest. Yours gives me hope that she still could be.

If the olive egger doesn't have a Crest, all it means is the parents didn't have a Crest. All three of mine are crestless because neither araucana nor marans have crests, but they do have the color genes needed for olive eggs

 

[rural mouse]

She looks like mine! So beautiful. I was just told mine isn’t an olive egger though cause she doesn’t have a crest. Yours gives me hope that she still could be.

2 of my green egg birds don't have crests either. The 3rd is F2 of an F1 olive egger. She has a 3 feather crest. I was pretty sure her mother didn't have a crest (she was the Egger, pop was a BLRW). Her daughter had a 5 feather crest but lays brown eggs. None of my boys have crests.

 

[SJsChickies]

If the olive egger doesn't have a Crest, all it means is the parents didn't have a Crest. All three of mine are crestless because neither araucana nor marans have crests, but they do have the color genes needed for olive eggs

This is good to know! I didn't think anything of it till someone told me that mine is a Sapphire Gem. She was sold to me as a Sapphire Olive Egger and I've seen some that look like her and are OEs but I know Sapphire Gems look just the same! She's got a super red comb and wattles, squatting and messing around in the laying boxes every day so I guess I'll find out soon!

2 of my green egg birds don't have crests either. The 3rd is F2 of an F1 olive egger. She has a 3 feather crest. I was pretty sure her mother didn't have a crest (she was the Egger, pop was a BLRW). Her daughter had a 5 feather crest but lays brown eggs. None of my boys have crests.

I'm really hoping this is the case with mine. I love her either way, she's such a sweetie, but I was really looking forward to green eggs!

 

[Mother of Chaos]

With Olive Eggers and Easter Eggers, it’s the egg color that proves the name.

Post that first egg for us!

 

[DLA]

The rooster in the middle and the light hen to his right are easter eggers and the black hen to his left is an olive egger. Her eggs are, in fact, a very olive green. The light one lays pale beige/light pink eggs.