The Olive-Egger thread!

[Illia]

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Any of them can be used.

I've got Ameraucana based Olive Eggers and Araucana based Olive Eggers right now, but they're all far too young to lay eggs yet.

 

[abellchicken]

PhiladelphiaPhlock
Those eggs are beautiful!! What a nice range of color. I have two OE pullets 20 weeks today. Hopeing to get a egg before Christmas out of them.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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I have some using my welsummer rooster over pure Ameraucana hens and I have 1 from my EE egg. They are only 9 weeks old though. I'm hoping for speckled olive eggs, even if I have to cross them back to my roo to darken them.

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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Thanks. I'm going for the whole rainbow! If my EE, my Ameraucana, my F1 Olive egger, and my Marans would bless me with some eggs, I'd REALLY have the full range. I guess I'll wait for spring.

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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There are people who sell "Amerilegs" which are precisely this cross. They can bee a pretty decent blue, but tend to be a bit paler than a really good Ameraucana. However, they lay lots of big eggs, which is always nice. It doesn't matter how pretty the egg is, if the chicken won't actually lay them!

 

[abellchicken]

Here is my new OE Roo. He is 20 weeks and going to be a looker. Not to interested in the ladies yet.

He is a mix of Ameraucana and BCM. He has a pea comb so do that mean he will pass on the blue gene or will he pass on an olive gene?

 

[rsquared]

Oh my goodness, my first belly laugh of the day re Onthespots post...She has beautiful Barred OE's...just started laying gorgeous eggs this past summer. Thank you for your efforts & you go girl!



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Still have them. Did not breed them this year. Had some "city trouble" and pretty much lost a whole year. (will be contacting an attorney soon to see about punishing the city for their RIDICULOUS behavior and claims. If my thinking is straight, I'm gonna open a whole can of chicken whup-arse on them soon)

So... only have a small flock, two roos and a half dozen hens. On a different note, I have been getting chocolate tinged birds from that pen. Seriously. Not late moult chocolate faded black either.


Edit to add... only a small flock of Barred Olive Eggers. Still have a MESS O' BIRDS, probably more than I need. Still have the Mille Fleur Cochins, two different lines of Copper Black Marans, as well as a (gasp) potentially a bantam CBM pair, more on them later. And, BLRW in full size and bantam, Dark Brahmas, Lav Orps, English type Black Orps to improve the lav orps. Also have my friend's Jersey Giants, and my EE pen, a few Ameraucanas, Silkies and Showgirls, Mottled Javas and Coronation/Light Sussex pen. And the Bourbon Red and Midget White pens too. Oh, and Cotton Patch Geese. Can you imagine a WHOLE YEAR wasted out of all those birds? City's gonna have to barf up a KIDNEY before I'm going to be satisfied with them.

 

[chics in the sun]

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OOoooo - he is pretty!

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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Pea combed Olive Eggers generally are carrying the blue egg gene, so he should be able to pass it on to his offspring.

The blue egg gene, in the presence of the dark coating genes that come from Marans are what produce the olive appearance. There is no such thing as one Olive egg gene. It's the combination of the blue egg gene, with several of the brown egg genes on top. (there are evidently dozens of brown egg genes, as opposed to 1 blue egg gene)

I would breed him to some Marans hens, and keep their pea combed offspring.

 

[abellchicken]

Thanks, I will do that.