Ready..drumroll...for my really stupid question of the night?

[farmerChef]

Can you only get an 'olive-egger' from a brown egg rooster and a blue/geen egg hen? Does it have to be a dark brown egg chicken or can it a light brown one? Would the olive color just be lighter?

 

[wannabchick]

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My understanding..dark brown
Xoxo

 

[wsdareme]

This is an interesting thread and is answering a couple of my questions.

I have a Black Copper Maran roo, and one BCM hen. I just hatched some of their chicks.

But, I also have an Australorp, Ameraucana, Wyndottes (SL & GL), Cochins (Blue, White, Partridge), Barred Rock, Dominique, EE (blue eggs), Delaware, and Marans (Silver Cuckoo, Splash, Blue).

Would anyone care to take a stab at what color eggs the offspring of the BCM roo crossed on these hens would produce?

 

[MuranoFarms]

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When I breed my blue egg laying hen to my FBCM roo I get an olive egger. When I breed a cream colored egg laying hen to my FBCM roo I get a brown egg layer. When I breed him to a brown egg layer, I get another brown egg layer.

The only thing I haven't tried to do...is the whole thing backwards! lol With a roo out of a blue egg, white egg etc...but I imagine it would have to work the same.