The Olive-Egger thread!

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

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Pretty good idea. If I don't wind up adding any more eggs, then I'll have both 'bators available. I could brood them separately for a while and see how they turn out.

This is all assuming they hatch, but they're local.

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

Good luck with your hatch!!!

 

[onthespot]

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When I hatch stuff that might look the same, I get little plastic baskets from the 99 cent store and set them over the stuff I want to keep separate. Then i mark them when I take them out. Strawberry baskets work too.

 

[chicken stalker]

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When I hatch stuff that might look the same, I get little plastic baskets from the 99 cent store and set them over the stuff I want to keep separate. Then i mark them when I take them out. Strawberry baskets work too.

Brilliant! I was just wondering how I was going to keep the ones you sent me seperated

 

[the simple life]

I just hatched out some second generation Olive Eggers today, the roo was a BCM.
I also hatched some pure black copper marans as well.

My first generation Olive Eggers had a pea comb and did not have the heavily feathered legs/feet.

My second generation that hatched today all had straight combs and very heavily feathered legs/feet.

They were almost identical to the pure BCM except for the fact that the pure bred BCM had the white/pinkish feet and the olive eggers had mottled black/white/pinkish feet.

They also had more of the tuft/beard feathers going on but it was slight and would have been very very hard to tell them apart if I had not been playing close attention to the hatch (yes I stayed in all weekend and hovered over the bator)

I took notes on them as they hatched and then marked them when I put them in the brooder.
The second generation defintely picked up more of the BCM characteristics.

I also hatched some first generation Olive Eggers today but they were easy to tell the difference as they were all born with pea combs.

Does anyone here have a second generation olive egger already laying?
I would love to see what the egg color is if anyone has any pictures to share.
I am curious to see if the color gets a deeper green or more of a brown.

 

[Wynette]

I've got one olive egger pullet that hasn't yet begun to lay. There's a 50/50 chance she's a 2nd gen, as I three olive eggers in that hatch - two first gens and one 2nd gen. I've got my fingers crossed and crossed again that this pullet is the 2nd gen and not another first gen. She's brown, and I've never hatched a brown one before. And, her grandma was a purebred wheaten penedesenca, and this girl certainly has the penedesenca tail - very upright as opposed to the normal looking marans or EE/Ameraucana tail I'm used to seeing. She's been bright red in the comb/face for a few weeks and has been investigating the nest boxes, so it shouldn't be long now! I'll get some pics of her this weekend & post on Monday. Hey, maybe she'll lay by then! THAT would sure be something!

 

[kathyinmo]

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Wynette .... That's what I hatched from your Olive Egg .... a brown one!

 

[pbjmaker]

Ok maybe this question has been answered before. I set two olive eggs that are due tomorrow. If they hatch and are both miraclously pullets - will the eggs they lay be just a darker olive? These chicks would be (BCM X EE) X BCM.

 

[SteveH]

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Since you set olive eggs , I'm assuming you inversed the breeding description and it was BCM X [ BCM X EE ] . That would give you a 50% chance of an olive egg , 50% chance of a brown egg . Getting a darker color of olive will not necessarily happen but chances are good it might happen .

 

[pbjmaker]

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Since you set olive eggs , I'm assuming you inversed the breeding description and it was BCM X [ BCM X EE ] . That would give you a 50% chance of an olive egg , 50% chance of a brown egg . Getting a darker color of olive will not necessarily happen but chances are good it might happen .

I wasn't sure who to put first - the hen or roo. Thanks, I learned something new today.

Suppose I hatch cockerals and breed them back to the mom? I may just be wanting for a rooster this time around