The Olive-Egger thread!

[Goose and Fig]

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My EEs always seem to start in good time, but the wheaten ameraucanas,,,,ugh! I have had them go 9 months or more! Right now most of my birds are moulting, but the EEs & OEs are still plugging along. And the cochins, seen as how they were broody all spring and summer, are laying well now.

I'm betting you'll get a terra cotta speckled egg from the single combed girl. Hope they start up for you soon. Sometimes if they don't start by Sept/Oct, they will wait til the solstice and suddenly you're buried in eggs.

Are you talking Summer Solstice next June? or Winter Solstice in December?

December. Its the strangest thing- they seem to know that the days start to get longer again, even though its just by minutes. Last year I had one old cochin laying through Novenmber and December, then the day after the solstice- boom! Talk about an accurate internal clock!

 

[AspiringUrbaniteFarmer]

Hey, does anyone have Olive Eggers in FL? For sale? Hens only!

 

[Maggizzle35]

To Happy Mtn:
My girls lay year round and we are in Alaska so the winter months are always a bit more challenging but as long as they have light and good food they are happy campers and continue to lay really well. I do have some olive layers I will have to take some pics and post them. Ameracuana dad and Rhode Island red mom I think is what the lady told me. I took some hens from a neighbor because they are moving.

 

[Illia]

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Sounds like an Easter Egger to me

If someone has RIR's and supposed Ameraucanas, chances are they're actually EE's. And EE x brown layer = EE.


Still would love to see pics though

 

[Maggizzle35]

I can't wait til my Marans start laying eggs. The girls that I got from the neighbors are real pretty and friendly. I picked up some beautiful olive eggs but before I could bring them in and get pics, the darn turkeys ate them.

 

[Maggizzle35]

Hi there
I did manage to collect some of the eggs the girls have going so I'm looking for some feed back on the color.

I think they are more of a beigy olive.

 

[DMRippy]

It finally happened!!!!

My first olive eggs!!!!

SOOOOOO EGGCITED!!!!!!

They have been laying in the Coop and not the nest boxes. I just happened to get there when two were missing and one came out so I had to look at what was going on. Two nesting spots with 5 eggs!

Three new layers and two were olive eggers!

Now two more pullets to go and then they are all laying. Breeding pens and Olive Eggs all in the same month!!

So pretty!!!!

I can finally post pics on here... I have got to start breeding these guys and some new ones too!!!! They are way to pretty, now i know what all the talk was about. I am hoping the color will get better since Marans will darken up some.

but if not

No flash just reg light in the kitchen, petty close.

BTW was that enough smilies????? I wish I had that much energy

 

[Mrsfoote]

My Olive Eggs

From this Pretty Lady...hatched From Sonew123

 

[Illia]

Nice eggs!!

 

[Mrsfoote]

Thank you! I am very pleased with them and they're getting bigger in size

far more impressive than my Wyandotte eggs....

The blond Roo in the back is her hatchmate...Pretty Boy....LOVE him.

My 3 boys....

Pretty Boy also hatched from sonew123

Nosy guy...now if only he did the dishes.