The Olive-Egger thread!

[ke_ben]

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cockerals:
wellie mom/cuckoo maran dad

pullets:
ameraucana maybe some EE

best possibilities

 

[crazy huhn]

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Yes, I would love to see the "next generation" FROM the olive eggs...your eggs are such a beautiful deep Olive color....I wondered what color eggs the resulting chicks that hatch out of the olive eggs would lay? I wonder how dark green can get? And what you breed together to continue the correct hue, or does it ultimately revert to brown? Are you keeping the Pea Comb chicks as the layers? Cant wait to follow your crosses to see what happens!

Of course, green is cool, but I really really want YELLOW. Have pink, brown, white, occasional purplish, some spots, never seen stripes yet, but I dream about YELLOW! I've heard there are EE's that lay them too!

Thanks for the pics, beautiful!
Tina

Tina, there is a beautiful breed in Germany called the Vorwerk Huhn. They lay yellow eggs. Here is a link with photo: http://www.bliesdalheim.de/vorwerkhuhn.htm

I would love to find some of these in the US.

 

[tfpets]

Those are beautiful birds! They look sort of like a red colored Lakenvelder? But if the eggs in the incubator are theirs, they look kind of brownish. I wish I could see them closer. Always chasing the golden egg? Let's keep looking!
Tina

Bild aus: Kramers Taschenbuch der Rassegeflügelzucht 1926

 

[Goose and Fig]

OK- I have a question. I have bantam aracaunas. I also have a banty cochin hen that lays a really pale pink egg. You think if I crossed them I'd get purple egg layers? Or would they be pale olive?
I'll probably try it anyway- but it's sooo long to wait!

 

[cottagegarden]

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Happy Mtn-experimenting seems to show that the darker the brown egg side the darker the olive result.
I would assume with a pink/lighter brown egg as half of the equation you would get an egg that resembled
the second from the left, lower row.

 

[Goose and Fig]

Thanks! They'll be itty bitty though!

 

[AHappychick]

I have been hatching my own olive eggers from a FBCM roo over an wheaton Ameraucana who lays a greenish/blue egg. so far they are all very young but I am keeping a few pullets to see what color they will lay this summer

So far all of the chicks that have hatched (over 10) are all blue and look to have nice lacing coming in. They all seem to have pea combs and muffs and beards, some are inheriting feathered legs others are not. I have to say they look like they are going to be very handsome birds.

here is a pic of a cockerel I have for sale if anyone is interested.

now from my understanding they should each carry a copy of a dark brown and green/blue egg gene correct??? or can there be some that will only carry one or the other? They all seem to have a pea comb so it is safe to assume they are all carrying the blue/green egg gene?

 

[chickenherder]

Not sure which I like better, your chicken bowl or the egg colors!

Those are just beautiful eggs, aren't chickens amazing?


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[snowydiamonds]

I have two of these standard sized black Ameraucana looking hens who lay green eggs, who mated w/a banty roo and only one egg hatched out this summer that produced a banty blue hen who looks just like these two hens, other than the color and she lays green eggs, too.

This is the banty roo:

I'd like more of the banty daughter but I haven't the banty roo any longer so am trying this summer w/a GLW banty roo (a half brother to the above roo)
I just got off the night shift so will post pics of the eggs when I wake up.

 

[crazy huhn]

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My apologies to the original poster, as this is a little of topic.
Agreed on the incubator egg photo, but I grew up with Vorwerk chickens in my neighborhood in Europe and be assured those chickens laid beautiful yellowish eggs, not brown or creamish. Fascinating.