The Olive-Egger thread!

[RHRanch]

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I have the Cuckoo Olive Eggers now.

 

[EweSheep]

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They are getting there! I say about three generations they should be even closer to their larger cousins. Sometimes more if they want to be really consisent. Bantam Marans laid darker eggs than the bantam Welsummers, that is for sure.

It all depends on how dark of an olive bantam egg you want. Crossing with a regular sized hen, it would take a couple of generations to get it down to size and they are not always consisent. But if that is all we have to work with, go for it!

 

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

I'm going for green eggs. Like DARK GREEN and not olive. The egg I got yesterday was pretty stinking close to what I want too.

My 2 pea combed olive egger x olive egger girls are the one in the top pic and the only brown one in the second picture. Only 2 girls that coulda layed the green egg(s).

Musta caught the girl in front right after a shake cause she looks all fluffed up! The girl in back on the left layed the pinkish egg posted on the last page.
And their crops are huge. They had just gotten a bunch of goodies!

And I still have this guy! He can stay, I guess! In a few months I'll put Alfredo over these girls and put this boy over the main flock of hens(the mama's). Do a test hatch after about a month or so, then switch the roo's back.

 

[jeremy]

I still would LOVE to do a test hatch!

 

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

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Lol! I had eggs collected for you and ready to send with my cousin but never heard back. No worries though I think I ended up setting them

. My 3 olive egger girls are still laying okay and turned a year old last week! Longest I've ever kept chickens from a preditors mouth I must add! With a new neice around I'm always headed to the bay area at one point or another if you ever want some. I like giving people eggs and getting my chickens out there!

 

[Roosterfry]

I've been chewing on if I should say this or not. But I have to.... Easter Eggers lay olive colored eggs all the time and to be an Easter Egger technically you could cross and ameraucana rooster with a buff orpington hen and you would have "Easter Eggers" that would lay pink, bluish, greenish, and olive colored eggs. I've read several comments of how people are making "olive eggers" and honestly I think those birds belong to the Easter Egger section

My statement is this, a MaranS or less preferred but would work penescenica,welsummer, and barnvelders of some type should be used by crossing to something that actually layes an egg that is green blue or olive.
The BEST way to get an olive egger in my opinion is with a pure Marans crossed to a good hatchery stock Easter Egger with facial muff and pea comb or a pure bred ameraucana like wheaten, buff, black, brown red, etc. You can NOT use a regular brown egg laying chicken like a barred rock to an Easter egger to make what we are calling "Olive Eggers" breeds like a barred rock don't carry enough dark egg genes to rise obove Easter Egger status. I didn't make this comment to offend anyone I just hope it clarifies the difference between olive eggers and easter eggers... again I said this to help

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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I don't think you're offending anyone. We all know that Olive Eggers are mutts as well, they just tend to lay darker green eggs that commonly seen from hatchery EE's. Any dark egg breed, and any blue/green egg layer will do!

 

[Roosterfry]

Lol ok good. Just last time I was on this thread it was taken over my people saying their going to cross a breed like a barred rock to a chicken of unknown origin, clean faced straight comb that layed a light green egg to create an "olive egger" I didn't know what to say at the time so I just didn't come back for awhile lol...

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

I haven't been on BYC for ages, since I've been in the process of moving from Philadelphia to a 110 acre farm in NY state! I can FINALLY have all the chickens, and ROOSTERS I want or need. My first order of business was making my Wheaten Olive Eggers. I was hoping to not hatch until spring, but my Wheaten Marans hen was laying, and was only exposed to my blue Wheaten Ameraucana, so I went for it. I got 12 out of 13 to hatch. Here are 3.

I also have some interesting Olive Eggers. They are Welsummer x (BBS Ameraucana x Leghorn). They all hatched out of blue eggs. I got rid of most of the straight combed birds. Some got the dominant white from the Legorn, and look muddy white. Others look more or less black coppery. The Wellie dad comes from a line of super speckled eggs, so I hope they will lay big and often like the Leghorn, but be splotched with olive. It looks like we'll find out soon. This one is getting red in the face. She may be straight combed, but there are several more pea combed sisters out there.

 

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

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Do you still have the Ameraucana x Leghorn? Do you have any pictures? I would LOVE to add a couple of those babies to my project. The pics posted a few posts up have dominant white. I get about 50% dominant white chicks right now and I love the color that bleeds in. I'd even buy or trade eggs!