The Olive-Egger thread!

[flgardengirl]

I found my second olive egg today. It is just as olive as the first one but more concentrated because it lacks the freckles this time.

I have a question. With the first olive egg it almost looked like the 'Olive' was painted on the way that Marans eggs are 'painted'. The brown freckling was underneath the green and showed through in spots! I looked at it real good and that's what I think. Anyhow, I was wondering with these Olive Eggers that have Marans in their backgrounds, do they actually paint the green on the outer layer of the egg? I didn't want to crack these open to see the inside of the shell, because I am hoping to set them since I saw the dark marans male mating the OE female the other day. What is everyone else's experience?

 

[ruth]

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In my experience, sometimes their first eggs and even some of the eggs through out the cycle do NOT have the extra "paint" on the outside that makes it the really dark coppery olive green and which can be scratched or scrubbed off. My pure Marans do the same thing. There's the occasional egg that is brown but without the dark outer paint coat.

 

[Mrs MIA]

Interesting that this is the topic this morning... my OE laid a soft shell this morning, then spit out this... She's the one that I posted about earlier that lays very deep olive green eggs (BCMxAmer)...

You can see that it's a green egg with red ink on it...

 

[hipeatall]

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One of mine laid an 1/2 and 1/2 egg a little while back. It's pretty neat getting to see what the egg looks like w/o the coating... it was a really pretty blue on that 1/2. We blew the contents out and are keeping that egg!

 

[hipeatall]

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain :

Interesting that this is the topic this morning... my OE laid a soft shell this morning, then spit out this... She's the one that I posted about earlier that lays very deep olive green eggs (BCMxAmer)...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/6962_img_0002.jpg
You can see that it's a green egg with red ink on it...

it's got a tie dye look to it! how cool!​

 

[Wynette]

Mrs. AK - neat eggie!

flgarden - I don't know that I'd hatch any of that olive egger girls eggs if she was with a Marans - her eggs are SO darned dark now, the offspring's eggs would likely be dark brown, like her Marans genetics. You get to a "point of no return" if you breed them back again & again to a Marans - Ruth posted a few pages back an egg laid by an olive egger that looks like a Marans eggie. That's probably what you would get, I would think. Would be a fun experiment, though!

 

[livin-green]

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Yes, that's what I'm thinking on that 3rd one, too.

It's hard to tell from the photo, but I feel like it's starting to develop some prominent saddle feathers, too. Dang it! I would really rather them ALL be females. Please be a pullet...please be a pullet...

Thanks for the other info.!

 

[mayberrychickens]

I have a question... I have a true blue Ameraucana hen and if I breed her with a Welsummer roo.... my ex-partner said that we would end up with some "Olive Eggers". I am wondering if this is true or will I just end up with an EE?? Can someone help me out????

 

[Noncentzter]

Yes, they would be an EE that is an olive egger

 

[mayberrychickens]

Please forgive me for all the questions.... so when I hatch the "olive eggers" then what would I breed with them to keep the olive egg coloring? I am getting 1 of those eggs daily, so when I get some hatched and ready for breeding... would I breed olive egger to oliver egger?? I am slowly learning as my patner bailed on me.... so I am learning!! Thanks for all the help!