The Olive-Egger thread!

[Illia]

To answer the Barnevelder question - No, you won't really get much out of them, honestly. Those eggs there I'd consider about as dark as my New Hampshire lays, so I'd say you're likely to get an Easter Egger green or very pale khaki/olive green.

That cockerel there is gorgeous though!

 

[Kansaseq]

Thanks, Illia,
I may go ahead and do the breeding anyway, just to have some pretty layers. Even if the eggs aren't super dark, it will be something a little different in the egg basket. I was so sad when Tequila's mother was killed; she was so pretty and sweet

 

[Medicine Man]

I very much recomment using Tequila and the Barnevelder hen for reasons on a whole different plane. And then take one of thos roostys and back to his Barnie mother if you want to see things.

To put an F1 OE such as Teq. on a dark egg hen is the only best use of such a roosty. Here is my warning to you: assume he has only one blue egg gen, only 50% of your babies will get that. The rest if they look like Barnes and have a single comb - it is on you to dispose of those properly. How many have hatched the purebred dark eggs with OEs and when the peeps are in there, "oops who is who?" oops, edit to say 50 percent, not 50 babies!

and to dispose of does not have to mean kill them but ensure(!) that do not get confused with a purebred by anybody.

 

[Kansaseq]

Ok, no Barnie eggs in the bator with my OE eggs. Thanks for the heads-up.

 

[BlueBirdChick]

what about a Naked Neck Easter Egger Cockrel with a Barred Rock hen???? in the near distance future??? Or a Russian Orloff..

 

[Medicine Man]

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SexLinkd babies but not so dark on the eggs. The goal is to combining dark eggs and blue eggs genes to make Olive.

 

[yazzymon]

My Salmon Favorelle roo and americana - will that get me OE?

 

[Goose and Fig]

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It will get you a really cute super-bearded, most-likely friendly EE. That's precisely why I got faverolles.

 

[Medicine Man]

What color is the Favvy's egg?

 

[Illia]

Faverolles lay a light brown, almost pink-tinted egg.