The Olive-Egger thread!

[HatchingFever]

Hey All just letting you know I have an auction up for 9+ barred olive eggers

 

[Roosterfry]

I have a question, I recently bred by decent bloodline black copper maran rooster to a blue egg laying Easter Egger hen, I have a hen setting on 9 of those eggs and the eggs are good I candled them. they are due to hatch anytime. What should I expect in egg color, or should I breed the offspring of this hatch back to the same rooseter to get the dark olive eggs I've been seein? Or will these get me some dark olive eggs?

 

[enggass]

Assuming the Marans has nice egg coloring, you should get a decent Olive Colored egg...

 

[jeremy]

These are my Olive Eggers out of ruth's eggs, the gorgeous coppery olive ones. I cannot wait until these guys start laying!

 

[Spitman]

Hey guys , what egg color will i get with EE hen with RIR Roo, is there a chance of olive egg?

 

[speckledhen]

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Those are such pretty little things, Jeremy!

 

[buckabucka]

I posted this under "what gender or breed is this", but thought I should put it out for the experts! I appreciate your opinions. I got these eggs from alicefelldown! Robin

I need some help sexing these olive-eggers. All of them are 6 weeks old. Of the 10 that hatched, 3 are obvious roos, 3 hens, and then there are these 4 which I am not sure about:

#1 has a fairly big comb, but the tail looks hen-like to me:

#1 comb close-up

#2 Has a pale, straight comb, but the tail feathers are slower growing:

#2 comb:

#3 also has slower growing tail feathers:

#3 comb:

#4 I think is a rooster, but the comb, while pink, hasn't grown much. This chick suffered a large gash to the chest in it's first week, and is behind in development:

#4 comb:

Thanks for any insight on these!

 

[Roosterfry]

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I've heard of someone crossing a barred rock roo over an EE hen and got a pure blue egg, even more so than the EE. But genetics are a funny thing it's possible to get a light olive colored egg. Normally an olive egger would be made by crossing and EE/ameraucana with some type of Maran.

 

[newlyweds]

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Hate to say it but I think #1, 3 and 4 are all possibly roos.

 

[Roosterfry]

Here's a picture I took yesterday of my surrogate black copper hen with her new olive egger chicks. I used her to hatch the offspring from a maran rooster crossed with a blue egg laying EE hen, some of the chicks have huge facial muffs and some have feathered legs. Hope they will lay the dark olive eggs I see in pictures! This is my first time trying this

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