The Olive-Egger thread!

[jeremy]

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Illia, I've personally never had any with clean shanks (I've never had OE at all... yet!) but I do know that sometimes the feathered leg gene can be supressed? I feel like it's a dominant trait so that usually doesn't happen but it's not unheard of still. I know the Pene crosses typically have clean shanks, that's one reason why I'll be breeding for OE with them too, I actually think I'd prefer a bird with out feathered legs. I feel like it makes their overall appearance much "cleaner".

hipeatall, nice egg!

 

[jemmasgrandma]

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This olive egg is a pullet egg, my first one and I found it on the floor of the coop...

 

[flgardengirl]

I'm sure they could be born with non feathered shanks especially if the marans have a non feathered shank gene somewhere in thier lineage. One of my olive eggers (black copper marans roo (with feathered shanks) over blue ameraucana hen) came out with pea comb, feathered shanks, muffs. The other has a regular comb, nonfeathered shanks, no muffs. They are my first two so far. I have more breeding to do lol because the pea combed one is a boy (I think) and the regular combed one is a girl. I don't know if they will lay olive eggs if they have a regular comb or not...

 

[Illia]

Regular combed birds will lay normal Marans eggs.

Anyone else?

 

[sgtmom52]

I have 6 Olive Egger (Cuckoo Marans/Ameraucana) pullets that were hatched on April 28 and today I got my first olive eggs from them.

 

[buckabucka]

Those are beautiful! Congratulations.

I hope to have olive eggs someday.

 

[Illia]

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See now this I wouldn't really call "olive" (probably because of the pale cuckoo egg color and, was the parent really an ameraucana or an easter egger?) - But it still is beautiful! I hope to get all shades and hues of "olive" and basic green this spring.

 

[sgtmom52]

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See now this I wouldn't really call "olive" (probably because of the pale cuckoo egg color and, was the parent really an ameraucana or an easter egger?) - But it still is beautiful! I hope to get all shades and hues of "olive" and basic green this spring.

Do these look more "olive" now. They are the same 2 eggs taken moments apart in different light (flash & no flash). The roo that fathered these pullets is a pure Ameraucana. I bought the hatching eggs in a BYC auction from BYCer CottageGarden along with some Ameraucana eggs.

Previous picture ~ same eggs.

I actually like the medium olive green eggs as they look less "muddy" than some of the darker ones.

 

[Illia]

I love that color too, but my favorite are the super rich ones - The ones that look like this -

(image from MaransGuy)

Course my all time favorite are from a hen of Wynette's. She lays "half and half" eggs, some are half green, half grey with half chocolate speckles, half copper dusting. Or, they're sometimes olive colored with chocolate blotches, or ribboned with 3 shades of olive green.

 

[hipeatall]

They look beautiful and olive to me... I love all the different varieties... light green to mossy brown!
I'm still waiting on mine to start laying... any day now!
I just love my little olive egger flock.