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An olive egger is just a certain type of Easter Egger that lays darker green eggs.
Orps shade of eggs can vary from barely tinted "creamy" colored to dark brown, really quite a bit of variation in them .
The rule of thumb is that the offspring will lay "between" the color of egg of the lines they come from. Basically between that of the hen and lets say that which the Rooster would have laid had he been a hen....if that makes sense? LOL SOme use the color of egg the rooster was hatched from for this reference, but really then your only considering the roosters mother....what if he was hatched from a very blue egg and had a Marans father?
You can also tell a bit by what your roosters other offspring lay to help with prediction.
The easy answer: If your buff orps tend to lay a darker egg than your EE..the mix will give you a darker green than what you are getting now.
Usually you only get "Olive" colored eggs from a really dark mix such as Marans or some Welsummers, etc...
The EE's I have had from BO mixes are generally about the color of the darker egg in your picture.
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