The Olive-Egger thread!

[PoultryArk]

I would cross breed them, then let the next generation grow out. At worst you will have some blue eggers in there. I think they are the best egg for poaching, anyways, so no loss there! If you are limited on space you can sell the blue layers, and keep your first generation OE to breed. I believe when you breed an OE to another OE you will then have all OE 2nd gen babies.

 

[PoultryArk]

There are only blue and white egg shells....the brown coating genes are another thing altogether and much more complex as there are many more of them.

Muffs and blue eggs are only part of the equation.....what color are their legs? Does their plumage pattern match the SOP for Ameraucanas?

Same way the hatcheries sell Ameraucanas that are not Ameraucanas...they use the terms that sell best, rather than the truth.

Sorry, pet peeve....I love my EE's but I call them what they are, not what the hatchery and my dealer calls them.....I call them AmerauKindas Hahaha!

Mine all have the grey legs. They look mostly like silver to me, some are white or black. I do not know enough about the breed perfection standards to know if the silver colors are good enough. I am primarily interested in egg color and quality. In 4 years I have yet to get a bird throwing any color other than blue, so I figured that was a win. I got shafted by a local breeder, so until i have a better source, I find these pullets to be ideal. Heh-heh. AmerauKinda is a cute name. I like it.

 

[aart]

http://www.ameraucana.org/gallery.html

 

[annabellaknits]

I guess colored eggs are in these days and my wife thought green and blue would be neat, which is when i started thinking about crossing our Welsummer and Ameraucanas. So, what it sounds like to me is even if mine are pure bred getting a green egg layer is still a toss up. This brings on another queation. How can people sell olive eggers if your not sure what color it will lay? We had thought about buying more chicks, but now I'm not so sure.

I think you first sell them as OE but explain what exactly they are and what they could lay. You also can breed yourself until you get what you want and it keeps breeding true

 

[dekel18042]

I guess colored eggs are in these days and my wife thought green and blue would be neat, which is when i started thinking about crossing our Welsummer and Ameraucanas. So, what it sounds like to me is even if mine are pure bred getting a green egg layer is still a toss up. This brings on another queation. How can people sell olive eggers if your not sure what color it will lay? We had thought about buying more chicks, but now I'm not so sure.

If your Ameraucanas are true Ameraucanas and not Easter eggers all the girls should lay olive eggs if the other parent is a welsummer. Last year I used a cream legbar as my blue egg layer for the olive eggers. Now I have eggs in the incubator where the father is an Ameraucana so I'll see. Unless I get all roosters.

 

[annabellaknits]

I was wondering
Have people had better luck using legbars versus Ameraacanas? Is there a better chance they carry two blue egg genes? Have there breed not been washed out as much as Ameracaunas?

 

[FlyWheel]

their eggs should be blue inside as well. when you crack them check for colour. if they are white inside than they have only 1 blue egg gene.

Wait, let me get this straight. You're implying one of the blue egg genes controls the color of the outside of the shell and the other gene controls the inside? I thought the blue egg gene controls the color of the shell, period; IOW if the outside is blue then so will the inside be. EEs the possible exception, as I understand the brown tint is added after and can effect the color of the [normally blue] outside.

 

[Cage10]

I was wondering
Have people had better luck using legbars versus Ameraacanas? Is there a better chance they carry two blue egg genes? Have there breed not been washed out as much as Ameracaunas?

I think you guys are missing the point.
Some companies advertise Easter eggers as true Ameracaunas. If you have a true Ameracauna you will have no troubles, if you have an Easter egger you may have some trouble.

 

[ICB42]

We just two new hens they are black sex links mixed with EEs ( or so we are told) and today I got an olive egg.... And the color is a color we haven't had before would this egg be from one of them?? See picture below!!

It's a dark olive... The picture does do it justice!

 

[Catandherchicks]

We just two new hens they are black sex links mixed with EEs ( or so we are told) and today I got an olive egg.... And the color is a color we haven't had before would this egg be from one of them?? See picture below!!




It's a dark olive... The picture does do it justice!

Your photo looks like it has some blue. But, yup! That's my vote based on your description. I have two OEs and they lay a range of olive; about 3 levels of darkness and occasionally speckled.