The Olive-Egger thread!

[livin-green]

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I don't know anything about the copper in the wings thing, but I crossed a true Ameraucana roo over FBC Marans hens and the most noticeable thing about my OEs has been that they have the Ameraucana beard right out of the shell--more just "puffy" cheeks on the chicks but still noticeable. If anything, mine look just like my Ameraucana except with feathers on the legs since I have French BCMs.
Here's a pic of my newest blue OE chick at ~1.5 days old:

Honestly, I'd never paid any attention to the black leg/yellow feet thing!

Hope this might help.

 

[Illia]

Oh - My - Goodness

I have an OLIVE EGG!!!!!

My Olive Egger girls are only 16 weeks old, and behold, I found in my nesting box today a gorgeous dark green egg, spattered with deep brown, nearly black splotches and speckles all over it! I was so excited I raced in to show the family.

Though I've got some Easter Eggers who are just at laying age, there is no way this is their egg. . .


This is officially the earliest layer I've had, and go figure, her daddy is from an Araucana line who normally give me eggs at 17-18 weeks. This breeding is officially on my keeper list, and I'm gonna continue with this "recipe."

So either the egg will get darker over the next few days or continue to have deep speckles, either way I'm happy. I'll get photos of it tonight.

 

[alicefelldown]

 

[Wynette]

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Um...okay....SHAME ON YOU for posting this WITHOUT a pic!

 

[Illia]

I know I know

I just couldn't hold it in. I'd get a pic now if my USB transfer cord thing was working, but it isn't, so I use someone else's computer to get photos from the camera to online.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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I wanna see! Congrats!

I was going for speckled olive eggers (via welsummers), but it didn't work.

 

[Wynette]

Illia - you have no cell phone you could get a pic with? Come on, girl! This is MEAN!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Here's what I have been getting from my olive egger girls. At the time, my welsummer rooster and my olive egger rooster were together, so I have no way of know the combination of these eggs, but I suspect they are from my welsummer rooster. I'm awaiting my test hatchers pullets to start laying, I know for sure one of them has an offspring of my olive egger rooster by the feathered shanks and markings.

This picture was taken in natural light, no flash. (as true to natural color as I could get) The 2 eggs that look blue, are not, they are more of a sage color. The white egg and the marans egg are there for color comparison:

 

[Wynette]

OOOhh - pretty, Kelly! I have such a hard time getting decent pics of both darkies (dark brown) and green/blues!

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Thanks.

I can do the dark ones fine, but the blues/greens are so darn hard to photograph!