The Olive-Egger thread!

[Illia]

Actually the egg color is very poor. One of the blues hatched out of a nice egg, the rest came out of my palest layers. Still better than a Cuckoo Marans, but, not purebred-worthy. I'm keeping her for purposes like this. She's huge, and her daughters make good layers while her sons make great meat boys.

Normally my eggs are as dark as #5, but, most the laying lately is done by my light laying girl and the rest are because it's the end of the season. Now, NO ONE is laying. Everyone's molting.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Wow Illia, such a variety! I'll be following to see how they turn out - especially the brown ones.

 

[RiddleMe]

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Beautiful, love the color!

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I love the egg color from these birds. Wish I could get my camera to capture the true beauty of them.

 

[flowerchild59]

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what are the speckledly ones?

 

[CluckCluck18]

I LOVE your olive egg. I just hatched out a cute little OE......if she stays a she and lays an egg like that I'll be thrilled to death. Good luck with your girls.

 

[Wynette]

Illia, that chick #1 is definitely interesting! Red tints...looks to be a cockerel, which bums me out. I'd really wonder what it would lay if it IS a pullet - I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that it's a gal!

I hope #3's leg issues resolve - big is beautiful! #4 is just gorgeous....and #5 - holy WOOT WOOT!!! Great job - thanks for the pictorials and explanations - super interesting!

 

[Happy Chooks]

I wonder if #8 is a sex link since the hen was cuckoo? Which would make it a male?

Had to go look again, they are just too darn adorable.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Beautiful, love the color!

Thanks, she like her mother did kept me guessing for a while. When my blue OE was a baby, the comb turned pink really early, like 3-4 weeks - so I assumed it was a cockerel. Then the chick grew, but the comb didn't, and by 8 weeks I knew she was a female. This splash baby did the same thing, comb turning pink really early on.

 

[Illia]

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No, the father was the Cuckoo. The mothers to ALL these chicks are Black Copper Marans. The chick is a girl, notice the small white dot.


Wynette, what? Red tints?


I'm thinking it's a girl with its color, but that's me. I'm hoping the rumpless brown one is a girl though ( #7 )

My browns usually go - Boys are black with yellow and brown face, underside, wings. Girls are mostly solid brown.