Im fooling around with some olive eggers myself, using a wheaten marans and ameraucana and EE hens. Its all about the egg, right? I have a few cuckoo marans girls, and might put them in with my blue wheaten ameraucana to get sex linked olive eggers. Fun stuff, huh.
The Olive-Egger thread!
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My broody BW Ameraucana hatched another Olive Egger baby!
This one looks like it is black, she still has 4 eggs under her and another 5 in the bator that hopefully will be grafted under her soon.
This one looks like it is black, she still has 4 eggs under her and another 5 in the bator that hopefully will be grafted under her soon.
So excited to have some of alicefelldown's olive-eggers hatching! 10 of 13 hatched so far, and these shipped 3000 miles! 6 are in the brooder, 2 drying off in the incubator, and while I think the hatching is done, I'm leaving the last 2 eggs in there for another day or so. I did have one of the 10 die. It was under a broody and I am a little paranoid about leaving the other one under her, although there was no evidence that she killed it.
Anyway, they are adorable! It will be a long wait for the eggs!
Anyway, they are adorable! It will be a long wait for the eggs!
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How the cuteness overload!
~Aspen
How the cuteness overload!
~Aspen
I have been following this thread for a while, and I do have some EEs, but I think I finally want to take the plunge. So I need to see if anyone has an olive egger rooster that I could buy/trade/etc to put over my EE hens. But I wanted to put it on this thread because I am looking for something in particular. I want a rooster that is clean legged, (obviously pea combed), bearded/muffed....and preferably wheaten instead of dark like a BCM. I also do not want an F1.
If anyone within ,say, 50 miles of Paulding County Ga has a bird that fits this description that they want to sell, please PM or e-mail me.
Or respond here, I watch this thread.
If anyone within ,say, 50 miles of Paulding County Ga has a bird that fits this description that they want to sell, please PM or e-mail me.
Or respond here, I watch this thread.
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I have several f2 OE roos- they are all pea combed and loo very similar to wheaten ameraucanas. I think they would work better with dark egg females though- not sure they actyually have a dark egg gene, but they have the blue egg gene. I am 1 hour from the GA/AL border and I go to Rome occasionally.
I have several f2 OE roos- they are all pea combed and loo very similar to wheaten ameraucanas. I think they would work better with dark egg females though- not sure they actyually have a dark egg gene, but they have the blue egg gene. I am 1 hour from the GA/AL border and I go to Rome occasionally.
Good morning, olive egger friends! What a beautiful Friday in Michigan (it's very humid, but nice & hot!)!!!
Cyn, does your little OE gal have a single comb? The last pic almost looks like she does...if so, it's not likely she'll lay olive, as the blue egg gene is closely connected to pea combs. However, there is someone on this thread (and I always forget who) that has a single comb gal that DOES lay olive colored eggs, so there's always the possibility! That chick is super cute!
Bailey - your little ones are just gorgeous!
I just love olive eggers - the variety, and those eggs....HALO - yep, it's all about the eggs!
Cyn, does your little OE gal have a single comb? The last pic almost looks like she does...if so, it's not likely she'll lay olive, as the blue egg gene is closely connected to pea combs. However, there is someone on this thread (and I always forget who) that has a single comb gal that DOES lay olive colored eggs, so there's always the possibility! That chick is super cute!
Bailey - your little ones are just gorgeous!
So! My Ameraucana hen hatched 3 OE eggs that she was sitting on, plus I slipped chicks from the incubator underneath her. She also incubated two of my sex linked EE eggs and they both hatched as well.
That puts 7 little peeps underneath momma tonight. One is the Splash I posted a picture of earlier, there is one I think is a dark blue and 3 that I think are black? They could be darker blue, too. One of the darker chicks has a red face- Monique, have you ever had one like this?
Sorry about the picture quality, it was taken real quick with my phone, I didn't want to keep the baby from her momma too long. I still have 4 eggs in the incubator, Thursday was day 21 but I've had more than a couple late hatchers this year so I'll probably leave them in until Sunday.
Sorry about the picture quality, it was taken real quick with my phone, I didn't want to keep the baby from her momma too long. I still have 4 eggs in the incubator, Thursday was day 21 but I've had more than a couple late hatchers this year so I'll probably leave them in until Sunday.
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Jeremy - after about 4 generations of always breeding my olive egg laying hens back to pure BCM roos, I've finally put the hens in with three different colored roos which hatched from olive eggs - so they are now being bred back to entirely new OE roos and I'm seeing all sorts of colors including some that still look like BCMs and some Splash.
I'm learning that if I want to keep up with my prior goal of having hens that look like Blue Coppers with muffs and feathered legs, I will have to go back to breeding them to pure BCM roos but I was afraid I'd lose the dark green egg color and end up back with brown eggs. I've hatched a few myself and will wait and see what they lay and how they do. It's a breeding program in progress and I may have to give up on going for a consistent "look" in the bird and just strive for beautiful green eggs. I have a new hen in the pen and she lays the original light blue/green egg, like an Ameraucana lays so I'm going to hatch those and see what results and what it lays since she too is breeding with the OE roos.
That little red faced chick looks almost like some of my BCMs when they hatched, before I pulled the roos that were too red or had Wheaten cross out of the pen. Thus far any red faced BCM that hatched turned out to be a roo. In my OE pen I have what initially appears to be a beautiful, award winning BCM roo, till you look at the comb and it's a pea comb so that could be the baby daddy.
Keep me posted as to the colors you end up with and what color egg they eventually lay. I'm glad you got so many to hatch.
Jeremy - after about 4 generations of always breeding my olive egg laying hens back to pure BCM roos, I've finally put the hens in with three different colored roos which hatched from olive eggs - so they are now being bred back to entirely new OE roos and I'm seeing all sorts of colors including some that still look like BCMs and some Splash.
I'm learning that if I want to keep up with my prior goal of having hens that look like Blue Coppers with muffs and feathered legs, I will have to go back to breeding them to pure BCM roos but I was afraid I'd lose the dark green egg color and end up back with brown eggs. I've hatched a few myself and will wait and see what they lay and how they do. It's a breeding program in progress and I may have to give up on going for a consistent "look" in the bird and just strive for beautiful green eggs. I have a new hen in the pen and she lays the original light blue/green egg, like an Ameraucana lays so I'm going to hatch those and see what results and what it lays since she too is breeding with the OE roos.
That little red faced chick looks almost like some of my BCMs when they hatched, before I pulled the roos that were too red or had Wheaten cross out of the pen. Thus far any red faced BCM that hatched turned out to be a roo. In my OE pen I have what initially appears to be a beautiful, award winning BCM roo, till you look at the comb and it's a pea comb so that could be the baby daddy.
Keep me posted as to the colors you end up with and what color egg they eventually lay. I'm glad you got so many to hatch.
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Cyn, does your little OE gal have a single comb? The last pic almost looks like she does...if so, it's not likely she'll lay olive, as the blue egg gene is closely connected to pea combs. However, there is someone on this thread (and I always forget who) that has a single comb gal that DOES lay olive colored eggs, so there's always the possibility! That chick is super cute!
You know, I'll have to look closer. I thought it was just the center ridge raised up, but could be, Wyn. I'll let you know when I check her out. She's really a pretty thing, isn't she?
ETA: I checked her out. To me, right now, it appears to be a prominent center ridge on a pea, not a single; the spikes seem rounded a bit on top is why I think so. It's so small still, I can't really tell yet. Will have to update later.
You know, I'll have to look closer. I thought it was just the center ridge raised up, but could be, Wyn. I'll let you know when I check her out. She's really a pretty thing, isn't she?
ETA: I checked her out. To me, right now, it appears to be a prominent center ridge on a pea, not a single; the spikes seem rounded a bit on top is why I think so. It's so small still, I can't really tell yet. Will have to update later.
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