The Olive-Egger thread!

[Soaring Chicks]

That's great! Hope you post some pictures for us. I can't wait till mine hatch the 14th.

 

[Stacykins]

No tufts, but that doesn't stop them from being super cute!

 

[Soaring Chicks]

ahh its not fair. I want peeps too.

On the other hand they are very cute. I like the color. they also look like they are saying in their minds...
Geee lady whats all the fuss about.

 

[t/m]

Hi, o.k. I'm on post 241 and all this is very interesting but like nuclear physics to me! What I think I've learned so far is:
I can take my EE pullet and my Welsummer cockerel and if I hatch their eggs and the chicks come from a blue egg and have a pea comb then I've got a good chance of those chicks laying olive eggs.
Correct so far?
What else do I need to know?
How soon can you determine a pea comb?
I love this site and all the wonderful info.
PS, please be kind if I've got it all wrong

FYI, we also have a Barred Rock pullet, a White Rock pullet, a Delaware pullet and a Partridge Rock cockerel;
coming in March a Welsummer female, a Partridge Rock female and a Golden comet female
All are from Meyers Hatchery in OH
Thank you for any and all help!

 

[Soaring Chicks]

Hi, o.k. I'm on post 241 and all this is very interesting but like nuclear physics to me! What I think I've learned so far is:
I can take my EE pullet and my Welsummer cockerel and if I hatch their eggs and the chicks come from a blue egg and have a pea comb then I've got a good chance of those chicks laying olive eggs.
Correct so far?
What else do I need to know?
How soon can you determine a pea comb?
I love this site and all the wonderful info.
PS, please be kind if I've got it all wrong

FYI, we also have a Barred Rock pullet, a White Rock pullet, a Delaware pullet and a Partridge Rock cockerel;
coming in March a Welsummer female, a Partridge Rock female and a Golden comet female
All are from Meyers Hatchery in OH
Thank you for any and all help!

The ee has to be a blue egg layer and yes you can cross them on the welsummer and you can make Olive eggers.
chicks will have both pea comb and single comb. you want to keep the peas comb pullets.
you can tell the pea comb from hatch as it will be flat(smooth) and single combs make it east to tell the pea combs.
pea comb cockerels will have a raised and pinker comb before the pullets in most cases.
if you google the differenty combs (i know there is a site that has them. I just can't think of it.) you can study the diff. between the combs and will help you pick out the pea comb chicks.
Good luck.

 

[Illia]

No tufts, but that doesn't stop them from being super cute!

Very cute!


I hatched two tufted Olive Egger chicks last year and both died

STILL fighting to hatch some again and actually see them live past breeding age. I want an awesome huge bilaterally tufted male, preferably rumpless too. The last OE male I sold, I regretted. Saw him months later at his new home, whoa he got HUGE!

 

[DMRippy]

I just put my first 2nd gen olive eggers in lockdown today

I had an incubator malfunction so I am hoping they are all ok. I could still see moving in some younger eggs so I have hope they are OK.

I will post pics when they hatch! if they hatch .....

They didn't hatch

I did get 1 each Blue Copper/Black Copper Marans and a Easter Egger. Better than the nothing I thought I was going to get.

 

[jeremy]

One of my favorite OE hens, Celia. I plan on putting her with my Platinum Sumatra cockerel to hopefully hatch out a few Dun colored, green egg laying chicks. From there I want to work on a Dun Olive Egger line.

 

[Illia]

Want help with that project?

 

[jeremy]

Want help with that project?

Yes actually! I can only hatch so many chicks here, I'm in a very urban environment. If you would be interested in hatching some of her eggs and then sharing offspring down the road then I'd love to have your help.

My goal is a Dun colored, pea combed, preferably clean shanked, medium olive green laying bird. That's not too much to ask is it?

I think my biggest headache is going to be keeping featherless legs.

ETA: And keeping clean hackles, depending on what color Marans I use, I don't want any copper coloring in these birds.