The Olive-Egger thread!

[HHandbasket]

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WHAT WAS SHE OUT OF?

She has a single comb, and when that started to develop, we kinda knew she wasn't going to lay olive eggs.

She came from one of Wynette's eggs. She had bred a blue ameraucana hen with a penedesenca, then took THAT offspring (pullet) and covered her with a BCM roo. She was supposed to be an olive egger, but you know how it is.... sometimes the genes just want to do what they want to do! She's still one of my favorites, and her egg was such a beautiful terra cotta color that it was almost a light brick red! Just beautiful. You never know what color they're going to lay sometimes! I am disappointed we won't get an olive egg from her, but we'll have to find another OE and try again.

Hehehe chicken math rules.

 

[remington3006]

that was a response to a poste on the first page
hip tale you have the same kind on your square

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Whoops.

Did you hatch her?

 

[hipeatall]

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Yes, all my oliveE's are all from onthespot... all of my oliveE flock are the black barred (like the hen in my profile pic) except one blue oliveE hen... I am hoping I will get some barred blues from her

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[HHandbasket]

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Whoops.

Did you hatch her?

No, but a friend of mine did, and she originated from a BYCer who breeds olive eggers, but sometimes Mother Nature has her own things in mind.

Someone else who had birds from the same parentage had a similar outcome with dark brown eggs that almost look like BCM eggs except without the "shine". My girl's egg had the "shine" but was definitely a terra cotta egg rather than chocolate brown (though it was her first egg, and I suspect it will change over time). Even though it's not olive green, it does look very pretty in the basket with the other eggs.

 

[hipeatall]

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Whoops.

Did you hatch her?

No, but a friend of mine did, and she originated from a BYCer who breeds olive eggers, but sometimes Mother Nature has her own things in mind.

Someone else who had birds from the same parentage had a similar outcome with dark brown eggs that almost look like BCM eggs except without the "shine". My girl's egg had the "shine" but was definitely a terra cotta egg rather than chocolate brown (though it was her first egg, and I suspect it will change over time). Even though it's not olive green, it does look very pretty in the basket with the other eggs.

Did you look at the inside of the shell by chance? I am just thinking it would be interesting to know if the inside of the egg is blue or not.

 

[1 Bad Rotti]

If an Americauna was used instead of an EE, would that increase the odds of getting an OE?

 

[hipeatall]

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I don't think so. As long as you are working with EE's with pea combs and that they are in fact laying blue / green eggs... I think you pretty much have the same odds.
Many are using existing Olive Eggers Chickens (with pea combs) and breeding them back to Dark Egg Layer breeds to get darker shades of greens... mossy greens and khakis. Fun stuff!

 

[onthespot]

Depends on the EE, compared to the Ameaucana. If your Ameraucana is purebred, it should be homozygous for the blue egg gene, and you should get all olive eggers if you breed it to a brown egg breed. Since EE are from unknown background, there is a chance they would only have one copy of the gene. If they have two copies, they will produce all olive eggers. If they carry one copy, and are bred to a brown egg, single comb breed, you will get fifty fifty on the egg color.

 

[Wynette]

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WHAT WAS SHE OUT OF?

She has a single comb, and when that started to develop, we kinda knew she wasn't going to lay olive eggs.

She came from one of Wynette's eggs. She had bred a blue ameraucana hen with a penedesenca, then took THAT offspring (pullet) and covered her with a BCM roo. She was supposed to be an olive egger, but you know how it is.... sometimes the genes just want to do what they want to do! She's still one of my favorites, and her egg was such a beautiful terra cotta color that it was almost a light brick red! Just beautiful. You never know what color they're going to lay sometimes! I am disappointed we won't get an olive egg from her, but we'll have to find another OE and try again.

Hehehe chicken math rules.

Awe...I'm sorry about your girl! I belive that is must be the Penedesenca influence (at least in my situation) that's causing this, but again - watch for single combs. 95% of the time, the single combs did not receive the blue-egg gene; however, I forget who it is...someone on here does have a single combed olive egger that lays olive eggs.

I am no longer using the hen that was part Penedesenca in my olive egger "program." I've been keeping track, and with my breeding, I gt 100% pea combs from the first generations, and typically right at 75% in the 2nd. So, there will always be a possibility of hatching a single combed pullet that does not lay olive colored eggies, unfortunately.