The Olive-Egger thread!

[jeremy]

Here's the babies from my hatch from Wynette!

All 6 of them are there, somewhere...

I will be keeping 3 and another BYCer will be taking the other 3.

So cute!

 

[Wynette]

Well....I see way too many single combs, Jeremy!

Also - does the one on the far left, 2nd pic HAVE AN EXTRA TOE?????

 

[Happy Chooks]

Wynette, I think that's the toes of the one squished under all the others. (you can only see it's butt)

 

[Wynette]

Kelly, I was talking about the 2nd picture showing 3 chicks - the chick to the far left....

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Oops. Guess I should read more carefully.

 

[DFCottage]

I realize I'm kinda entering on the middle of a conversation, but I was wondering if someone could explain how the sex-linked OE's are obtained. I just hatched out some barred OE's as well as some BCM/Ameraucana crosses (from shipped olive eggs). OE's are a new endeavor for me, so I'm really excited! I'd like to use my up and coming flock to produce my own OE's next year, in addition to what I just hatched: I have black and blue copper marans, welsummers, black and blue ameraucanas, a few easter eggers, delawares, NH reds, RI reds, and barred rocks. I just learned that the single comb indicates a brown layer, luckily only 2 of the BCM/Am crosses I hatched have them. I just hope the rest are pullets! haha

So what's the secret to creating a sex-linked OE?

 

[jarodw45]

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https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=131131&p=252
Start at post 2516

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

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Use a barred or silver-based hen and, preferably, a gold based roo, but with barred hens (cuckoo Marans, for example) you can use almost any color roo.

I just set some eggs from a Silver Duckwing Araucana roo and Cuckoo Marans, they will be black sex-linked Olive Eggers. (Hopefully some will be rumpless and tufted!)

You could also use Silver Ameraucana hens with a non-silver roo, or use barred OE hens with a non-barred roo.

Out of the breeds you have, only the Delawares (silver-based) or the Barred Rock hens would be candidates for making sex-links. (Unless your EEs are silver-based or barred.)

 

[hipeatall]

Wanted to share pics of some of my most recently hatched chicks... a black barred and a BLUE barred!
I only got 2 beautiful blues out of 21 chicks hatched... guess I'm gonna have to keep on hatching!

 

[DFCottage]

Thank you so much for the information! I do have some silver ameraucanas that are in the bator now, which I am SO excited for. With that hatch (ironically) are some golden cuckoo marans.. I don't have a roo at the moment that I can pair with the Dellies or the BR's to work on this project, but after this hatch hopefully I'll be on my way!