The Olive-Egger thread!

[Illia]

Sadly she won't lay any olive eggs though

I'll get some photos up of my recent (and only) Olive Eggers. They're reaching 2 months and older, so it will be a while before I get any eggs, but they're very pretty. Half of them are Wheatens and Blue Wheatens, half of them are (silver) Blue Birchen and Birchen. Sadly I seem to only have ONE wheaten pullet and ONE blue copper pullet (with a lot of mossiness) though. The rest are all boys.

 

[Medicine Man]

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This is probably true, but not 100%.

 

[Wynette]

Someone posted a pic of her single-combed olive egger maybe a week ago...so yes, it's rare, but sometimes it does happen. We'll keep our fingers crossed!

 

[HHandbasket]

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I have her sister! I think she came from one of your eggs, Wynette.

 

[smoothmule]

I just posted 12 hatching eggs here in the auction section, they're out of my black cuckoo Maran hens and two of my true Araucana roosters, Rudy and Spot. Spot is double tufted and rumpless and Rudy is clean faced and rumpless. Spot is young but has been busy with the hens but Rudy is a proven producer of Olive Egger chicks so I think we have it covered, Plus they will be sex linked too.

I need to take some pictures of the hens, they're coming 3 yr old hens and huge. The eggs are not the darkest that Marans can lay but they are a gorgeous deep color and nice large eggs. One of the hens is the French type and has feathered feet and shanks so some of the chicks may be feathered the same. Every chick from the previous hatches were rumpless too so these will be some fun chicks and unique.

I'm including a couple, maybe more, of my eggs from a coal black hen that is clean faced and rumpless from either a black, purebred Ameraucana hen or one of the Maran hens and Rudy late last summer before I sold all my Ameraucana hens. She doesn't show any sign of a beard or muff so she may be an Olive Egger herself. She is laying medium sized dark green eggs and she's in with my other 2 true Araucana roosters, Degas (double tufted/rumpless) and Joker (clean faced/rumpless) plus an ornery (not really, he's a pesty pet that demands to be held) little young cockerel who just started thinking he was a rooster a couple of weeks ago and tries to breed any hen that walks by. He's tufted and a partial tail. These could be some fun little chickies too and and they should all be pea combed.

 

[Morgan7782]

Single combs mean they won't lay olive eggs? I think she is FBCM (I think?) x Blue Ameraucana (maybe EE? She was hatched from Wynette's eggs).

 

[flgardengirl]

I finally got a pic of my first Olive Egger girl. She is Ameraucana x FBCM roo. She has a peacomb and her black coppering goes around the front of her neck like a collar instead of on the hackles like in the BCMs. Her legs aren't feathered though. She should probably start laying sometime in Feb.
I have one more OE but it is a male. Same cross but he looks like a black ameraucana with copper hackles and featherd legs and peacomb.
OE pullet

 

[Illia]

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99% of the time, yes. The pea comb is linked to the colored egg, and in Olive Eggers you may get some flukes with single combs, who usually just lay brown eggs.

 

[haTHOR]

i think i read there is a 94% correlation b/t pea comb and blue gene...

 

[WVCHICKEN]

I was wondering how to keep the olive egger strain going? Do you always use a Maran Rooster to cross with an Americana hen or do you mate olive egger to olive egger.