The Olive-Egger thread!

[ruth]

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See page 10 for my initial posts - more on pages 11 and 12 of this thread.

 

[kathyinmo]

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Since blue does not breed true, how do you plan to create these?

 

[Cetawin]

Hi Ruth! I was about to ask the same question as kathyinmo but since she did...I will just say Hi

 

[Wynette]

Yes, please....I would like to know, too - I've been trying to get my blue olive eggers to breed true, and it's just not working for me!

My girls are lovely, and I used a beautiful purebred blue ameraucana last time, but only got blacks. This is the coloring that I'm stirving for, along with nice, round bodies. This girl is HUGE now and lays like a dream, XL - Jumbo eggs, and consistently - that's what I'm looking for in my olive eggers, but I can't seem to re-create her!

 

[texasgal]

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Wow .. how does THAT happen .. I would love for ONE of my hens to go broody ..

 

[texasgal]

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Olive reminds me alot of my hen, Cocoa .. she's pretty!

 

[ruth]

Hi Ladies - I did say I'm working on it. I know nothing about nothing about chicken genetics. I only know that I get a "lot" (if not all) of blue chicks that look like those in the pictures. I still have them in a pen with some of my original, pure, French Black Copper Marans which, at this point, are their mamas, daddys, grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-grandparents. I don't know if they will ever breed true but I've got nothing but time to try.

I hatch all eggs - brown or green. Then I take all the blue birds and put them back in the pen when they are old enough to breed. May take years to work things out but right now I'm getting the "look" I want and they lay dark olive eggs so I'm happy.

 

[ruth]

Hi Texasgal - if you want broody - get Marans. Mine stay broody and fight over the nests. It's actually hard to get eggs out of them because they stay broody year round. Right now I have six of them all sitting with their big butts in the same place, each trying to push the other away - and - they don't have any eggs. I've taken the eggs so they'll get off their butts and get back to being chickens, but no such luck when it comes to my Marans - this is the broodiest breed I've ever seen.

 

[le neige homme]

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Since blue does not breed true, how do you plan to create these?

Well then what about calling it a B/B/S Copper Olive Egger?

 

[texasgal]

Soooo .. I've got 4 hens .. 3 started laying last month .. two blue eggs and one olive egg. 2 to 3 eggs a day.

This week I'm getting a solid olive egg one day, and then a speckled olive egg the next..

Can a hen lay eggs like that? Or did my little Hershey start laying ??

I guess if I get two olive eggs one day, I'll know for sure! (And will probably scare them to death screaming .. hehe)

Here is the speckled egg: