The Olive-Egger thread!

[jenniferlamar70]

Not really.....chances are serious breeders have enough of their own cockerels for their OE breeding program.

Please be honest about their parentage...... better they fill someone's empty belly than someone being disappointed using them as sires.

I would never lie about what they are. Where I live colorful eggs are really big right now. I purchased mine specifically for the eggs. If I could keep a roo for breeding purposes I would but I already have to many roosters. Hoping someone will be impressed locally and want them. I don't feel like I have to hide what they are to find them homes..

 

[Lucky Lemon]

My lone olive egger that hatched (out of 12) started crowing this morning at 4 weeks old. I was really holding out hope that it was a pullet.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

My lone olive egger that hatched (out of 12) started crowing this morning at 4 weeks old.  I was really holding out hope that it was a pullet. 

I'm so sorry. I think we all hold out that hope. Especially with a chick we become attached too. I think out of all this. Finding homes for cockerels is the most difficult part. Especially when you love your birds. Hopefully you will find a home for him. Make sure to leave a number at the feed stores. Lots of people who free range on big properties will keep multiple roosters. You may find someone that way. Good luck.

 

[Lucky Lemon]

I'm so sorry. I think we all hold out that hope. Especially with a chick we become attached too. I think out of all this. Finding homes for cockerels is the most difficult part. Especially when you love your birds. Hopefully you will find a home for him. Make sure to leave a number at the feed stores. Lots of people who free range on big properties will keep multiple roosters. You may find someone that way. Good luck.

I REALLY really wanted some hens out of that hatch, the eggs were a beautiful deep olive. Out of the two different types I was trying to hatch, I only hatched two, and I do believe they are both roosters. One of them will get to stay as long as they play nice. The other that hatched is a Lavender Orpington.

 

[aart]

My lone olive egger that hatched (out of 12) started crowing this morning at 4 weeks old. I was really holding out hope that it was a pullet.

Always incubate eggs in the quantity of 4 times the number of pullets you want to end up with......
because, you know, typical 50% hatch rate and 50/50 male to female ratios.

 

[chickengr]

Always incubate eggs in the quantity of 4 times the number of pullets you want to end up with......
because, you know, typical 50% hatch rate and 50/50 male to female ratios.

where I live this year is boy's year. if the eggs hatch at all almost all chicks are boys.

 

[oregonkat]

I would never lie about what they are. Where I live colorful eggs are really big right now. I purchased mine specifically for the eggs. If I could keep a roo for breeding purposes I would but I already have to many roosters. Hoping someone will be impressed locally and want them. I don't feel like I have to hide what they are to find them homes..

What is the problem about them being olive egger roos vs. another breed? Is it because they are a cross themselves?

 

[jenniferlamar70]

What is the problem about them being olive egger roos vs. another breed?  Is it because they are a cross themselves? 

That's what I assumed. I don't see a problem with it though. Most people I know don't...

 

[oregonkat]

Not much risk of weird mutations, at least for few generations, with parent/offspring crossings.
Sibling crossings can be a bit more risky.
Research 'line breeding'.

So from the eggs (BCM specifically) that are under the hen now, which came from a BCM breeder, should I assume that they are siblings and cull roosters? Keeping my current BCM roo for next generations as I love him deeply and although he would not pass muster according to the requirements on the BCM regulations thread and I would not be breeding for show at all, he is a champion in my eyes. Thanks.

 

[buckabucka]

 
Always incubate eggs in the quantity of 4 times the number of pullets you want to end up with......
because, you know,  typical 50% hatch rate and 50/50 male to female ratios.

where I live this year is boy's year. if the eggs hatch at all almost all chicks are boys.

For some reason, that happens to me almost every year