The Olive-Egger thread!

[hipeatall]

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I would love to get my hands on an old slide projector... I've heard you really can see everything with those... I will put the word out and see if any of my friends have one collecting dust in their garage... you never know... maybe I will luck out!

 

[flgardengirl]

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Thank you. There is the dark marans roo and the OE roo running around with her (freeranging). So really she could be getting mated from either so it wouldn't be a very controlled experiement LOL! I do want to experiment with her eggs though and different roos because it would give me some insight on what I should be shooting for at this color point.
I have 3 of her eggs now. Ever since she laid the one on the porch she decided that she likes the little hay nest that I made her and another hen (not OE) has been laying in it too.
The third egg is more olive than the last. So now thinking I should definitely not go in the Marans direction lol.

I love that tie dye egg! That is about the coolest egg I've ever seen!! (Besides maybe the lavender ones LOL!)

 

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

Okay so I'm trying to catch-up on this thread. I'm like half-way through reading but I figure I'd share some pics of my youngins in the meantime!


Okay so I like the roo's better! They're always wayy prettier! These are first generation EE/BCM. (N.A. Quechua hens in the mix too.. (??) They're 8 1/2 weeks old!!

[Chicken] Alfredo

[Chicken] Cordon Bleu

Alfredo and Cordon Bleu

Pretty sure this is Blackened [Chicken](has a twin named Cajun) and [Chicken] Piccata (who has a single comb.)

[Chicken] Piccata and [Chicken] Parmesan (look the same except one has a single comb!)

And lastly Cleveland! I have no clue what he is but he hatched from a HUGE olive egg!

I just realized only Alfredo and [Chicken] Parmesan have a beard/muffs. Funny how it takes seeing pictures to realize this!

ETA: Aha! I found a pic of the illusive 'Cajun'! She's a wild one for sure!

 

[jeremy]

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Your Olive Eggers are beautiful!

You said you received hatching eggs from a breeder here in California, right?

I would love their contact info in hopes of getting some eggs, if you are able to pass it along, PM me!

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

I'm wondering, and this is perhaps more of an EE question than just an OE question, but could the cushion or strawberry comb be as likely to produce blue eggs as the pea comb?

 

[mayberrychickens]

I have just set 3 Ameraucana/Welsummer eggs in the incubator. I ordered another incubator last night for my hatcher since I have scattered hatches all the time. I cannot wait to see what these chicks will look like. This is the 1st step to my project Olive eggers!! Yay

 

[TheReidHomestead]

OK, I'm just reading back a few pages in this thread for the first time. I have two Olive Eggers that I bought off one of our senior 4-H members two years ago. They lay gorgeous eggs, and look to me to be a wheaton maran or wheaton ameraucana cross of some sort. They have been two of our best layers and I had not even thought to put them in my current Olive Egger breeding pen! We have only a pair of LF Lavender Ameraucana we got as chicks last August, and I have one Marans mix hen we put in with them. We are still waiting for the Lav Am to lay her first egg. I had plans to hatch some of the pure Lav Am eggs and some Olive Egger eggs with the single Marans hen I have. But you guys are saying if I put my two current Olive Eggers in their, I can get MORE Olive Eggers!!!???? They are moving in tomorrow!!!

One lays a darker olive egg and one lays a lighter olive egg. I just want colorful eggs from the layer coop so I am truly excited now to get even more of them!!!

 

[Illia]

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Yes, if you cross the OE's with a Marans, you get darker laying OE's. If you cross with an Ameraucana, they get lighter and often greener. If you cross OE's together, you get more, but a small chance of normal brown and blue-green, too.

 

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

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I got the eggs from Medicine Man on here. (Even though I found them through CL!)

I just LOVE my babies!

 

[Happy Chooks]

I have seen my olive egger babies getting vocal like adult hens, eating oyster shell, and now I've seen the rooster mate them..................but no eggs yet. The hardest part is when you know they are so close, the days just drag.