The Olive-Egger thread!

[aart]

Quote: I Know, Right!? I was surprised when I open her first egg and it was blue inside.
That brown coating is fading as the season progresses...it's greener, but a weird green.

 

[Catandherchicks]

My first olive egg from my very first breeding. EE x Wellsummer
I'm so excited!!!!!! Just got 3 Aura can as a month ago. Will be great to see what they produce!

Nice! Congrats!

 

[Catandherchicks]

Latest OE pullet, her first egg(a 40g DY!) was laid within an hour or so of when her matriarch had to be put down a few weeks ago. Serendipity, Fate, Coincidence.....whatever you want to call it. I finally got some pics of her today. So sire is Welsummer, mama was a blue laying EE. Didn't think she would lay green....yellowish legs, no beard, crinkled single comb... ......but sure enough, look at that. Now these are not the Deep Dark Olive most of us desire, Woody's sister lays a mediocre wellie egg so...... [COLOR=1D2129]Top 3 are from hens of last years hatching, same cock x hen.[/COLOR] [COLOR=1D2129]Bottom egg is from LLP just this morning, big for a pullet egg - probably a double yolker, she had to really push to get it out.(ETA:just weighed that sucker 68g!!)[/COLOR] LLP LLP LLP comb pics LLP's Sire - Woody the Welsummer LLP's 'mama', Blue Egg Laying Lucille [COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR] Lucilles blue eggs.

Nice eggs, pretty birds!!!

 

[ronott1]

My first olive egg from my very first breeding. EE x Wellsummer
I'm so excited!!!!!! Just got 3 Aura can as a month ago. Will be great to see what they produce!

That is a nice egg!

 

[Chicken5555]

I haven't been on this thread in some time... too dang busy! LOL
Two of my three blue girls (Marans x Ameraucana) are laying now, and I do believe my Splash Marans x Ameraucana Olive Egger laid her first egg today. She was standing over the freshly laid Franken-Egg with a peculiar expression. I know people don't usually see chickens as having personalities and expressions, but my special Crook Neck is different. She honestly had a look of bewilderment on her face. I blame the Franken-Egg on her system being new to egg laying. She has access to crushed oysters and is fed layer pellets.

The carton is blue.... I did not edit this picture at all.

 

[aart]

IME softie eggs DO put a peculiar expression on their demeanors.

 

[TherryChicken]

Anyone have any fertile eggs and in Texas?

 

[Flock Master64]

I have a black olive egger pullet

 

[Catandherchicks]

@Chicken5555
Franken-Egg! Too funny!!! The other eggs are lovely though.

 

[Chicken5555]

@Chicken5555
Franken-Egg! Too funny!!! The other eggs are lovely though.

Yeah, I didn't know what else to call it. I know that pullets can sometimes lay "rubber eggs" or double yolkers but I've never heard of conjoined rubber eggs. Both yolks were full sized. One had a normal amount of 'whites' and the other one had almost none. It was the strangest thing.