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I love keeping up with this thread too! I have three chicks from eggs I got from a friend they are EE roo over RIR hen cross. The eggs from the RIR are huge and surprisingly dark but I don't know if the Roo carries 2 blue... its a gamble heck I don't even know if the chicks are pullets yet! But if one does happen to be female and lays a green egg I plan to breed back to one of my BCM roos... like some one else said I sure wish chickens matured as fast as button quail for these projects!
 
I haven't gotten this far in my project yet since I'm just growing out my foundation flocks right now, but to create the bird I want I'll have to do OE x OE. Taking advantage of the pea comb/blue egg gene linkage you could weed out the single-combed brown egg layers pretty easily, but you'd have to do test matings like onthespot mentioned to determine if your blue/green egg layers are homozygous for the blue egg gene and to ensure that your pea-combed roosters are carrying a brown egg gene.

...right? LOL I confuse myself thinking about this stuff.
 
Well this is the first project for me and my hubby. We right now have a true blue Ameraucana (sp?) hen with a Welsumer roo. I did check the eggs and they are blue, inside and out. When I finally get the olive egg, the small town we live in will not know what these eggs are, lol... I did finally find out that the other Ameraucana chicken (which is crossed beak) is a roo. However the hen is laying daily, so that is a plus. I am so enjoying this Olive Egger thread.
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I have solved the mystery of the unidentified pullet egg in my coop!!!!! I caught the culprit!!!!!!!!!!!! And it was........................(drumroll)













My BCM hen starting back up!
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I got 3 eggs with no coating, just a weird tan color, then today she laid one the same size, but with some color. I have no idea why she is laying pullet sized eggs, when her eggs before molt were much bigger. I'm thrilled that it isn't my olive egger babies being defective though!
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So here I sit, still waiting for my almost 21 week old olive eggers to kick into gear! And I'm so happy about it!


ETA: I can't say PHEW loud enough. They really had me sweating bullets for a while.
 
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