The Olive-Egger thread!

[Happy Chooks]

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So... you're letting me come pick them up this weekend, right?

Nope, not a chance. They are mine all mine.

 

[jeremy]

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So... you're letting me come pick them up this weekend, right?

Nope, not a chance. They are mine all mine.

Well then you'll just have to set some more OE eggs underneath another broody for me!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Here's some updated pics of my olive eggers. They are a week old now.

Broody mom and some of the babies.

This one is my favorite, so it's probably a boy.

And I'm not sure if this one is an olive egger or pure wellie, but I'm thinking boy.

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

Oh the stance on that last pic is ALL rooster but he is so CUTE!!!

 

[chics in the sun]

What cutties!! I love that little blue one, too!

 

[ruth]

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I love the little blue one too. I think he's a grandbaby of mine.

Welsummers can be sexed at hatch. Girls have full eyeliner - boy's don't. From the pic, it looks like a full-blooded Welsummer Boy.

 

[Illia]

Love the chicks!

Still waiting for my broody Ameraucana to hatch out some Olive Eggers. . . Due this weekend!!

Can't wait to see my surprises. All I know is that at the time the eggs were collected and set, I had all my roos and all my hens together, and I've got 3 eggs of each color under there, all fertile, soo...

I could have some Ameraucana x Marans or Araucana x Marans or who knows what. . . . I REALLY hope to get at least one tufted Araucana cross or pure Araucana in there though!

Oh and of course I hope for some crazy colors other than blue and black.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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I love the little blue one too. I think he's a grandbaby of mine.

Welsummers can be sexed at hatch. Girls have full eyeliner - boy's don't. From the pic, it looks like a full-blooded Welsummer Boy.

Yes it appears that way, but I can't be certain that the welsummer eggs weren't fertilized by Ford. (the boy I have from your stock) I have both roosters in with the hens right now. So they are either welsummer/welsummer or welsummer/olive egger (2nd generation). When they feather in I should be able to tell. I have seen Ford mate with one of the wellie girls, the other one beats him up and won't let him near her. So I probably have a bit of both.

And I have 2 blues (2nd generation) so both blues are definitely from Ford, that blue one is lighter and my favorite. And of course they inherited their daddy's big beard.

 

[flgardengirl]

I have a question: I think one of my two olive egger chicks is a male. Should I bother keeping him or should I get rid of him and breed back to blue eggers or brown eggers? They are babies from bcm roos over ameraucana hens. I realize you probably have to wait and see what the egg color looks like but I was wondering what others have typical done (bred back to egg color wise) with that cross?

 

[Happy Chooks]

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The only reason I kept an olive egger rooster, was because I think he's gorgeous, and I wanted to see what his offspring lay. Once my new coop is done, he will be in it, then I will test hatch him to Ameraucana, BCM and wellie ladies. Then I'll see what range of colors the female offspring lay and go from there.

Generally, I think people keep the pullets and mate back to the father to darken the olive color of the female offspring. With a rooster, you really don't know what egg color combination he might be adding to the mix.