The Olive-Egger thread!

[ICB42]

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.

Thank you, I have an EE in there as well but she is only 21 weeks so I was I wasn't sure if that was her egg or not, I have been researching, but I wasn't sure, so thank you!

 

[annabellaknits]

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.

Lol I think you missing my point
Most chickens in the US at some point have been cross bred. And with Ameracaunas it's even harder to get pure bred so my question is if it is more likely to get a true legbar as upposed to an Ameracauna?
Even legbars have been showing up with some weird traits which says that they have been cross bred at some point.

 

[FlyWheel]

Somewhat off topic, but for those who want better color accuracy in their egg photos your best bet is to put something that is defiantly white in the same photograph. Especially if you're using a digital camera (which I'm sure most if not all of us are) you don't want the white to fill the screen as the camera will underexpose the egg. A truly white egg in the same photo would work nicely.

The camera can use the white object to set it's internal 'white balance' properly. If it still doesn't look right you can use the basic photo program that probably came with the camera to correct it in your computer before you upload it to the board.

Naturally variances in people's screen settings will affect how others see it, but the more accurate it is to start with the less off it will be due to these settings.

 

[chickengr]

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.

I am not an expert. I remember reading a post where someone mentioned that pure blue egg layers lay eggs which are blue inside as well. I think it was in araucana thread.

 

[StarMeKritten]

I wish you could just crack an egg to see if the hen has 2 copies of the blue egg gene.. But that's unfortunately not the case.

 

[FlyWheel]

I think it's going to take a little more than cracking an egg to tell what the chicken's genes are

- like a genealogist and an electron microscope.

 

[ronott1]

I am not an expert. I remember reading a post where someone mentioned that pure blue egg layers lay eggs which are blue inside as well. I think it was in araucana thread.

The shell can only be white or blue. The coating can be brown or clear(none). Sometimes the brown coating will go through the shell and color the inside.

Green is brown over blue.

 

[ronott1]

I think it's going to take a little more than cracking an egg to tell what the chicken's genes are

- like an electron microscope.

There is a test for egg shell color. I do not know where you can have that done though.

 

[aart]

I wish you could just crack an egg to see if the hen has 2 copies of the blue egg gene.. But that's unfortunately not the case.

I think it's going to take a little more than cracking an egg to tell what the chicken's genes are

- like a genealogist and an electron microscope.

I think they were being facetious.

 

[FlyWheel]

I think they were being facetious.

Well, I know I was!