The Olive-Egger thread!

[stitch_b]

Still no pips yet but I can hear taps coming from atleast 3 distinct sections in the incubator and its way more frequent than yesterday so hopefully I get some peep action today...I feel like the cliche expectant father you see on cartoons pacing and chain smoking lol but seriously this is rough!

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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They would most likely be green using your RIR. You need a Marans, Welsummer, Penedesenca, or other dark egg breed to get the olive eggs.

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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I guess my first question would be, do any DARK egged bantams exist? I've had bantam Welsummers, but they have light eggs. I know there are some bantam Cuckoo Marans out there, but I don't think they're dark egged either. Sign me up, if anyone has some! I have a gorgeous black bantam Ameraucana that is laying some very blue eggs... Maybe I can AI her with a LF Marans rooster...

 

[sgtmom52]

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If you use an Easter Egger you may get brown egg layers or green egg layers. To get olive eggers you must cross a blue egg layer with a dark brown egg layer. Easter Eggers are mixed breeds which may have blue or brown egg genes. "Olive eggers" are really just "Easter Eggers" that lay an olive green egg as a result of the particular breeds that are mixed.

 

[Medicine Man]

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You could expect green eggs, but not so much "olive".

 

[crazy4eggsJulie]

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Got my first OLIVE egg today

and had to share a photo! STUNNING! So excited!

God's creativity never ceases to amaze me!!!

This egg came from an "olive egger" that is the offspring of my Wade Jean C1 BC Marans roo and a Jean Ribbeck Ameraucana (either silver or white, not sure which one) hen. Now I'd like to switch the two breeds and run the blue egg gene roo over the marans hens and see what shade I get!

 

[speckledhen]

Nice eggs!



Here is my Shelby at 12 weeks old. She is a chunky girl.

 

[HenThymes]

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I guess my first question would be, do any DARK egged bantams exist? I've had bantam Welsummers, but they have light eggs. I know there are some bantam Cuckoo Marans out there, but I don't think they're dark egged either. Sign me up, if anyone has some! I have a gorgeous black bantam Ameraucana that is laying some very blue eggs... Maybe I can AI her with a LF Marans rooster...

I have some bantam marans and they are from a decent dark egg compared to any orpington egg I have on the property. No not as dark as most LF but still nice. Attached is a picture of the eggs my were hatched from. They are still growing out so don't know their egg color yet but wonder if they would work??
Three bottom shells are all bantam marans egg color.

 

[Christie Rhae]

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Got my first OLIVE egg today

and had to share a photo! STUNNING! So excited!

God's creativity never ceases to amaze me!!!

This egg came from an "olive egger" that is the offspring of my Wade Jean C1 BC Marans roo and a Jean Ribbeck Ameraucana (either silver or white, not sure which one) hen. Now I'd like to switch the two breeds and run the blue egg gene roo over the marans hens and see what shade I get!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/25108_150.jpg

I read on a marans club website that it was the roo that either passed or carried the really dark egg genetics. So would it be better to use a marans roo over an Ameraucana hen? Any thoughts on this? Seems like people have had success both ways. Just curious.

Or maybe I made it up... Lol.. Too much info...overloading...

 

[flowerchild59]

Has anyone tried a cuckoo marans roo over EE's to see what you get? I have a chance to pick one up and was curious.