The Olive-Egger thread!

[Wynette]

urbanfarmboi - yes, Olive Eggers will one day rule the world!

le neige - beautiful assortment you have there!

 

[LaSombra]

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I love those eggs!

I'm working on getting all different colors into my egg basket and yours is just about what I'm wanting

Beautiful!

 

[kathyinmo]

Miss Olive, from Wynette's eggs ....
Now if you could create an Olive Egger breed, I think these would be most beautiful and sought after. Isn't she lovely? And to top that, she lays every day. I bet she hasn't 2 days since she started laying. Wynette, I would like to have another dozen girls just like Miss Olive! You do a fabulous job with your creations!

 

[Wynette]

AWE! Thanks, Kathy!

Miss Olive is very lovely! I just love the blues, and the blend is a really good one. My olive eggers are my very best layers of not only pretty, but LARGE eggs!! I think your Miss Olive has some Wheaten Penedesenca in her...she's got that upright tail, and I used a 1/2 Penni and 1/2 Marans hen in the 1st generation (she was also blue). The Penedesenca I had were very good layers, but a bit too flighty for me - I don't see ANY of the flightiness in my Olive Eggers created from them, though!

 

[technodoll]

I got the loveliest surprise a few days ago!

Molly, one of the girls from my first hatch (born March 24th) was an experiment to see if I could get olive eggs out of a production red hen bred with Solaris, my superb EE roo.

Only 18 weeks old and giving me amazing eggs!

Plus she is amazingly gorgeous, this photo doesn't show her full beard, green legs and incredible ginger lacing but it's all there

This is her 3rd egg, she's been laying for 5 days now:

It's not the darkest olive egg in the world but no Ameraucanas nor Marans were involved, so not too shabby I'll say

 

[jeremy]

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WOW! Gorgeous bird, gorgeous egg and gorgeous photography!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Wow, it looks like a jade green! Beautiful egg and girl.

 

[technodoll]

Thanks! we're so thrilled!

We have two more girls from the same hatch that should lay soon (production brown egg laying moms, Solaris the EE roo dad) - hoping for more "olive" eggs!

 

[le neige homme]

Molly's a beauty. I have one similar I call Pumpkin, but she's in my blue egg program.

Thanks everyone for the kind words on my egg colors. I set out with that goal in mind and now I'm just waiting on the Marans to start. Those semi-dark ones in the pic are Penedesenca.

 

[newlyweds]

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I remember Solaris, must be one of the most gorgeous rooster I've ever seen!! Molly is a beauty.