The Olive-Egger thread!

[Wynette]

Jerrilynn - NO worries! I just don't want peeps to think, if they are on my hatching egg list, that they'll end up getting a bunch of brown layin' birds!

I'm super excited about the girls I'm using this year - they phenotype is pure black, but they are recessive for blue. In "normal" genetics, that would mean the offspring should be 50% blue...and I'm thinking they would have copper hackles, so "blue copper" - but I'm just not sure what I'll get with their babies! Olive Eggers are just SO much fun!

 

[ruth]

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Since it was so cute and so small, I just dried it. I didn't get any more but then again, I turned them all loose not too long after that. So now I have to wait to see who lays what.

 

[ruth]

Also if you all take a good look at that wire basket of olive eggs (right after the ones in the carton from the egg show) you'll see some of my "grey" eggs. I think they are pretty cool. They look gray but if you wet them they are dark olive green with a white/gray powder coating. As soon as it dries it's grey again. If you touch a wet finger to it, the spot is dark green.

Here's another picture of them.

And the "pink" eggs are just the opposite. They are dark brown BCM eggs underneath with a white/grey powder coating. I've yet to figure out if it's the same hen that lays these, if so they are rare and she doesn't lay them every time. It could also have been an Olive Egger that lays these because at that time they were in with the BCM roos. Now that the Olive Eggers are in their own breeding pen for the first time I should be able to pin point who is laying what.

 

[Dray67]

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WHAT WAS SHE OUT OF?

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.

breed her to an Ameraucana roo!

 

[Wynette]

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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.

breed her to an Ameraucana roo!

Yep - that would work!

 

[flgardengirl]

Ruth I love those purple eggs. On my monitor they look lavender. Soo pretty!

I have been trying to catch my first Olive Egger (blue ameraucana hen x BCM roo) laying her egg. She freeranges during the day and is very good at hiding her egg. My pomeranian is very good about finding eggs and eating them. Little terd! Anyhow, today it has been raining buckets so all my freerangers have been hanging out on the porch and my OE finally laid an egg on the patio and I found it! I'm so happy lol. It is a light olive and full of tiny brown speckles!

Based on the color, do you think I should breed her to an Ameraucana or a BCM roo? I also have her brother who is an OE too?

 

[Illia]

There's no way that's from an F1 Olive Egger. . . That is gorgeously amazingly dark for an F1. Very nice!!

If she keeps it up like that, I say breed her to an Ameraucana.

 

[flgardengirl]

Yes it is lol. She is my very first (except her brother). Her dad was from a very dark egg though, almost like my avatar. Her mom lays the regular light blue perhaps with a tiny greenish tint. I don't know if this is her 'normal' egg color or not. I suspect she has been laying about 3 weeks now but could never find her eggs between her sneakiness and my dog. She isn't the tamest thing. I should probably pen her soon before something happens to her.

 

[Illia]

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Who'd you get your Marans from, or better, do you sell eggs from your stock?

Seriously I want eggs that dark, and F1 Olive Eggers that dark. . . . Wow.

 

[ruth]

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Beautiful egg - those are my personal favorites (the ones with little specks).