The Olive-Egger thread!

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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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!

They weren't my birds but looked VERY much like white Ameraucanas, but with green or yellow legs. Some were solid white, while others had flecks of black in their feathers.

 

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

My 2 pea combed girls are both laying now. The center eggs. The eggs on the outside are their mama's first eggs for comparison(blown ornaments from about 7 months ago).

They're very similar!

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Congratson the farm! I haven't been on this thread in a while either, but its nice to pop back in and see some good news!

 

[fish n cheeps]

I found this little beauty today. Here it is next to a BCM egg to show colour comparison. It has a funny splotch on one side, and it is also covered in lovely brown speckles. The chicken that layed this was born here, mum is a blue egg laying ee, and dad is a speckled sussex.

 

[bigshawn]

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Loveing those eggs..................

 

[Frosty]

I had my cabinet incubator going last April and told a friend that I was tempted to throw in some eggs from my EE hens. Being the enabler that she is, she said 'Do it!' The roosters that I had at the time were all hatchery stock...1 each Barred Rock, Cuckoo Marans, White Crested Black Polish, Blue Cochin, EE and 2 Buff Orpington. I had no idea who the father was but set the eggs. I ended up with a bunch of barred chicks so that narrowed it down to the BR or CM. I culled the roosters and have 4 hens that are barred with muffs and beards. They almost look like pigeons. At least one is laying now and I have this beautiful disgusting shade of olive drab. I laugh every time I pick one up! I have since culled most of my older chickens. I had a few turn into egg eaters and the rest seemed to pick it up so they had to go. In the way of younger birds I have BCM, Ameraucanas, Chantecler, and Cochins (frizzled and straight feathered). I think I'll cross my olive eggers with the BCM and see what I get...

I saw reference earlier in this thread about the barring being sex linked... how does that work? All of the hens and I think most if not all of my roosters were barred...

 

[Roosterfry]

When you cross barred to unbarred the offspring roosters tend to be barred. If you cross barred to barred the male chicks have the most lighter spot/area on their head.

 

[Frosty]

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My EE hens weren't barred but the rooster was... and I think all of the chicks were barred

 

[Roosterfry]

The cockerals would have more clearly defined barring.

 

[DMRippy]

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Sex links are a solid roo x a barred pullet/hen. She can only pass the barring to the roos, thus sex links by the dot on the roos. If the roo is barred x a solid pullet/hen he should pass the barring to all off spring (but they will not breed true). Sex links will not breed true either so non of this applies to any of the barring info above. Does that make sense? Let me put it another way.... any offspring from only one barred parent will not follow these rules (mostly, barred pullets MIGHT) If BOTH parents are barred they should breed true and 100% barred babies that should also breed true.

I have a BSL (black sex link) Roo and he is giving be all kinds of babies. Should have given me all barred babies, but I get some barred and some solid no gender pattern either so you can't sex these

BUT on the plus side I am getting babies I was not expecting

I don't find that the barring is better in roos than pullets from a Sex Link. The barring is all over too. Some look Barred like a rock some not as barred some I am just not sure if they are really barred or not. Barring is an incomplete dominate gene. It is dominate (barring will show) with one copy, but not complete ie barred with just one of the gene will not look proper, you will get some solid color feathers or oddly barred feathers.

I hope I didn't confuse anyone.... I only know enough to be dangerous