The Olive-Egger thread!

[spunkychickenmomma]

I have olive eggers set to hatch under a broody on St. Patrick's Day. Didn't realize this until today. LOL

 

[Kate McKae]

I haven't been on this thread for a while, but I got some pics of my favorite splash copper OE yesterday. She and her hatchmates are still a few weeks away from laying.


She seems to be in between a pea and single comb so I am not sure what we'll get.

 

[Kate McKae]

Some of my olives​

 

[Lark Rise]

Beautiful! I love that milk chocolate one!

Some of my olives​

 

[DMRippy]

Some of my olives​

I love all the shades.... I just have 2 and they are just olive.... both about the same. BUT I have second gen olive eggers in the bator due next week

Then the real wait begins... for the eggs

This week I set up another Olive Egger pen. These will be first gen. I have a Blue Copper Marans in with some of my EE pullets. 2 are barred so sex linked too

 

[Illia]

Nice collection!!

The one thing I'm seriously missing from my pretty pallet of "paints" are good olive shades, from a deep dark chocolatey greenish to a normal good rich mossy green.

I've got some F1 x F1 eggs collecting, waiting to be set, from a Duckwing Araucana x Wheaten Marans X Blue Cuckoo Araucana x Black Copper Marans. The hen laying the eggs lays anything from a deep mossy green to a light minty green and much between, including a lot of eggs with a nice chalky haze, making for some rather slate-colored eggs. The hen is at someone else's house though. I only wish I had her, but moreso, the cock that she's with. I often regret selling him, lol.


But, here's my current Olive Egger pullets. Both from the same mom, same dad. (Araucana x BC Marans, however both girls ended up tailed) Their plumage color is a serious mystery to me, as I've no clue how I got some very silver partridge and blue duckwing colored birds out of a duckwing x black copper. Even if the Marans carried recessive Wheaten it wouldn't explain the red breast of this blue gal -



Breast shown with flash.



Her "normal" (non blue) sister. She looks very much like a young silver partridge/penciled/dark in coloration. Behind her on the right is their father, a blue based golden duckwing w/columbian carrying Araucana.




Excuse all the mud, it's Washington in the winter here

Same pullet in better view.




I have a rumpless black cockerel too but he's pretty ugly looking right now. He'll mature to mimic a golden birchen though, as he carries recessive duckwing.

I should expect some pretty eggs from these two girls in about another month likely more. I'll also be expecting more OE chicks.

With these I had two tufted Olive Eggers, one rumpless and one tufted, but sadly they died a while ago. Had a very cold winter and not enough heat lamps in the coop for the little'uns. Not raising birds so late in the season again.

 

[Christie Rhae]

Some of my olives​

wow!! what a collection!!!!

 

[buckabucka]

Those eggs are absolutely gorgeous, Kate! It would be hard to eat them!

I only have 2 hens that lay olive. Right now, I don't have a rooster that is the right breed to make more, but I may cross my olive egger roo (I don't know his parentage) with a few hens just to see what happens.

 

[Kate McKae]

Wow Illia interesting feather genetics! I particularly like the roo in the back. And buckabucka as far as the oe roo go for it experimenting is half of the fun. I'm taking my black oes back to my dark egg Bcm and my blue oes to my lav am, and then later the blue girls to the blue copper maran. All just experiments. Oh and I have a clean legged wheaten maran hen with good egg color that I'm going to breed to my blue wheaten roo I'm going for bright avocado lol.

 

[sewandgrow]

AWESOME EGGS....!!!!!!!! You go Katie girl.........LOL

Some of my olives​