Thanks I guess I’ll take my chances! She is a pretty pullet, all black with the ameraucana cheeks!This is true...still hard to say until you see her egg if it'll be olive or just green.

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Thanks I guess I’ll take my chances! She is a pretty pullet, all black with the ameraucana cheeks!This is true...still hard to say until you see her egg if it'll be olive or just green.
I don't have olive eggers that are that cross, but I think my starlight green eggers have RIR in them, they are a cross between a Prarie Bluebell egger (which is an Aruacana x white leghorn) x "Brown egg layer" according to the hatchery site. Their eggs are a lighter green though. I'm glad you got her, post when she lays an egg!Hi out there on the olive egger thread! I was wondering if anyone has seen a production red/ameraucana(not EE) cross as an olive egger? I have the opportunity to buy one, though I understand Marans and Welsommers are usually used for the brown egg layer parent.
Though I have seen some production reds with darker brown eggs (though not as dark as the other two mentioned). Thanks![]()
You're welcome, chicken genetics are pretty fascinating.Thank you so much @JennyHeidewald for your reply. Interesting combination of birds you have! I did not realize so many different breeds could make up an olive egger!![]()
Thank you. They really are. I was pleasantly surprised with them. 4 out of 6 have the crest, but all look similar. I contacted Hoover’s hatchery and was told they would start laying at around 20 weeks.Those eggs are gorgeous! Looks like your hens are a cross between cream leg bar and not sure what the other half is! Amazing that they’re already laying eggs at their age. Congratulations!![]()
Yes! I believe that’s what they were listed as at the farm store.Pretty! Sapphire olive egger?
No I hatched them.... sorry I was gone for a while... ended up with 8 Roos out of 12.... olive eggers, what now?Pretty hard to tell with a chick, might know more once it gets its adult feathers.
Where did you get it? Hatchery should be able to tell you parentage.