The Olive-Egger thread!

[newlyweds]

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I like your thinking, but not sure how to go about that.

 

[wolftracks]

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I know there are others doing this and there's another BYCer out my way working on them. I have an EE who lays a very pretty pink egg. She wanted to buy her, but I'm also working on other colors, so when I have more chicks hatched out and she still wants them, I'll give her some to work with too.

Yep Jovi is still mad. He was out back and I just came in from the front yard and he was in the neighbor's driveway walking toward the sidewalk. I yelled "What are you doing?" and he ran back out toward their backyard. Haven't been able to catch him yet, but that's my project in a few minutes when I can get the neighbor to open their gate. This is why he was on a time out in the first place.

 

[Spring Chook]

I have a pea combed ameraucana roo who is not pure, ie could have a bit of mille fleur and buff orpington in him (I hatched him from a light green/blue egg that came from a neighbour who has lots of different breeds).
I also have several pure breed black copper marans hens that I would like to mate with the roo. What are the chances of producing an olive egger?
be interested to hear your thoughts peeps

 

[buckabucka]

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I would think that would work well. The pea comb, from what I've read, is strongly (although not definitively) linked to the blue/green gene. There are no guarantees, but sometimes you get nice surprises too.

 

[Roosterfry]

Spring-Chook- Maybe it would work. If you were wanting to insure that it would be more likely to work I would look for some type of standard breed Ameraucana. But I totally understand sometimes you have to work with what you have, I've been there...

 

[moodlymoo]

Im wondering if I have this correct. If I cross my blue egg ee's with a FBCM roo I will hopefully get offspring who lay olive eggs? What if I cross my green egg laying EE's with the FBCM roo? Will I get even darker green eggs? Also, does it matter what color my EE's are? I have 2 who are the buff coloring and 2 who are black and white.

 

[Wynette]

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That's exactly right! I have found that the BLUER the egg from the hen, the more GREEN the offspring's egg (well, olive green). With the gals that start out laying a light green egg, the offspring is almost a brownish/green. Very pretty, but not truly an olive shade. Here are some:

 

[wolftracks]

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Sometimes you get a darker olive, but you can also get brown. My big guy up above is from my SQ blue AM and a Bev Davis FBCM. I have only a couple of pullets that haven't started layig from that mix. I got a LOT of cockerels this year. If I get the olive I want from them I'll use Jovi over them to see if he's going to produce those pretty olive eggs with them. I'm also using some EEs that lay a lighter green and a couple of AMs that aren't want I need for my AM breedings, so I'm hoping I get kind of a variation in color from all of them. But I'm using BCMs and Wellies for my F1s and hoping for the best when bred to pure AM roos.

 

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

These are my end of the season eggs:

The 2 on the ends and the brown one are f1 EExBCM(other egg is half cochin, half olive egger. The single combed sister of this hatch layed a nice pink egg also.). They did lighten some but they dont have that brown color over it. I like my eggs this shade and my goal is a bright to dark GREEN color.. (not tinted green like EE's. and not really olive either.) I have 4 20-week-old pullets and 7 8-week-old pullets from these girls with a BCMxEE rooster. Cant wait for them to start laying!

 

[Spring Chook]

Crazycatnchickenlady
& Wynette

Beautiful Eggs! I really hope I can produce an olive green egg laying lady. I did have a wonderful olive egger who laid beautiful dark olive eggs but she was taken by a coyote.