The Olive-Egger thread!

Wow! I love these!
I'd normally ask how too, but, it happens. Now as for their avatar I don't think so with them, but that's a good representation (minus white) of what I mean.

I hope Phage doesn't mind I post this, this is his photo of an array of eggs one OE pullet laid, hatched from my F1 breeding. Crazy.

 
Is anyone making bantam olive eggers? Please post the recipe as I have come the conclusion I must have some olive eggs.
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lol Not with Olive Eggers!!

I have two different people who bought only ONE F1 hen from me, the rest of their birds lay brown or white eggs, and that one hen can lay anything from a normal olive egg to a greenish light blueish egg to a half-and-half or even a speckled, splotchy type, or even an olive with a gray haze over it.

It is true with most others yes but F1 Olive Eggers I've seen some crazy stuff.

FYI to folk - Your Olive Eggers don't have tufts unless you actually bred tufted Araucanas in there somewhere ;)


Concerning charts and the sort, I actually made that one, don't have a bigger size unless the demand calls for it. Any other charts are this one, basically gives a good idea of the difference between an Easter Egger (homemade) and an Olive Egger, plus common second gen OE's.






Answering an earlier question, Lav x BCM = black chicks with white bellies, they'll grow up to be black birds with tiny to no reddish leakage, possible golden or silver leakage too, birds should but not always will be bearded, and will have very sparse to moderate leg feathering. Same goes for Black Am x BCM.

On the second picture in order to get that last color egg. Who are the chicks bred back to?
 
I'd normally ask how too, but, it happens. Now as for their avatar I don't think so with them, but that's a good representation (minus white) of what I mean.

I hope Phage doesn't mind I post this, this is his photo of an array of eggs one OE pullet laid, hatched from my F1 breeding. Crazy.

Get outta town!! That is totally amazing...
 
That's what I figured, Just wasn't sure. I can't wait to see what I get from my EE's and my FCBM. He just recently started taking over my flock, he's still scared of my D'Duccle roo's. I can't hatch any eggs until my breeding coop is done so I came remove the mean little D'Uccle . He may just end up dog food if goes after me one more time. So if a D'Uccle was attempting to mate with the EE's and the Marans did complete, will I get crazy D'Uccle mixes or will it be the last roo? I'm not going to hatch yet. Just wanting to know if anyone knows how that works. Thank you Michele
 
I think I forgot to answer the original question...it was my avatar in question. Yes, all the olives came from my first OE girl, Olive. The whites are from my brown leghorns to show the variation and depth of color. Those were her first 16 or whatever eggs over something like 19 days.

I'd normally ask how too, but, it happens. Now as for their avatar I don't think so with them, but that's a good representation (minus white) of what I mean.

I hope Phage doesn't mind I post this, this is his photo of an array of eggs one OE pullet laid, hatched from my F1 breeding. Crazy.

 
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The same hen will lay different color eggs? I mean I understand speckles and intensity being different... but a really different color egg? How is that possible? The avatar in question has greens, blues, and browns. How?



I have a few that lay different colors on different days. Sometimes they are speckled, sometimes not- all depends on how the red "paint" layer gets put on that day. Its the same with marans and welsummers.
 

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