The Olive-Egger thread!

[Chic-n-farmer]

Glad you posted that I was admonished last week for suggesting that one hen laid different colored eggs but here's a pic of two eggs from one hen within two days time. I have her separated with a bcm roo so I know for sure they can only be her eggs.

Well, it's either her laying them.... or the rooster.

Which is more likely?

 

[Kate McKae]

Ah ha I knew it, I looked up your web page and I thought that's what I understood Thanks for clarifying I had been told like I was an idiot that egg color didn't change so it's nice to be vendicated, thank you everybody. What's Olive's cross?

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.

 

[Kate McKae]

Ha Ha, hey if it were the rooster then I'd really have something lol

Well, it's either her laying them.... or the rooster.

Which is more likely?

 

[haTHOR]

Absolutely! I do think it has to do with the layer of paint they get from their FBCM half. Some of my FBCM girls lay eggs very different from one day to the next, too.

Olive doesn't have a perfect pedigree! She is the daughter of a very "common" EE, Ruth:

and our FBCM roo, Jules.

Here's Jules and Olive and Orangina, my F1 OE girls. Note the straight comb on Orangina...she lays a pretty olive egg despite that!


a pretty picture of Jules:

Ah ha I knew it, I looked up your web page and I thought that's what I understood Thanks for clarifying I had been told like I was an idiot that egg color didn't change so it's nice to be vendicated, thank you everybody. What's Olive's cross?

 

[dfdesigns]

This may be a stupid question (but I am known for asking stupid questions, so...):

I have OE chicks from two crosses:

1. My true Ameraucana roo x a FBC Marans hen

and

2. My true Ameraucana roo x a Cuckoo Marans hen

It never even occurred to me that the offspring (if female) wouldn't lay a green/olive egg. I know there's a risk when using EEs as a factor in your breeding pair, but if you use a true Ameraucana are the odds higher? (The roos full Am sisters lay beautiful blue eggs, so I'm hoping the genes are there!)

PS: I think it's hysterical that the BYC spell checker wants to change "Ameraucana" to "Americana"...

 

[Illia]

on the spellcheck


Using a purebred Ameraucana with good egg color in his bloodlines gives you a very very low chance for a brown layer, but it still can happen now and then. Honestly though I've only had it happen once with my Araucana boys in about 4 different hatch batches, and it was from a questionable Araucana male. (questionable as in, his comb was pretty floppy and I've seen khaki to olive laying Araucanas before, so I never trust floppy ugly combs)

So I wouldn't worry about it. Even with Easter Eggers, as long as the rooster has a comb that isn't tall, extremely spikey, folded, or floppy, you're pretty safe. Just avoid single combed offspring.

 

[Coopacabana]

So i was wondering abou welsummer/ ameraucana crosses:
a) is the gene for the big, splotchy speckling on welsummer eggs dominant or ressesive and is it sexlinked?
b) is there anything to the claim egg color is inherited via the rooster?
c) is it better to use the welsummer roo or the hen for olive eggs or does it make a difference?
d) is it better to use the welsummer roo or the hen for increased egg production in the offspring?

My idea is speckled olive eggers with a good production rate, as you may have guessed. I'd also like to see what blue partridge looks like...

PS: I think it's hysterical that the BYC spell checker wants to change "Ameraucana" to "Americana"...

lol me too. How many times have we been told there is no 'i' in ameraucana on here...

sounds & looks so much prettier without the 'i' i think

 

[dfdesigns]

Thanks for the explanation, Illia! Now I just need to wait around for these babies to grow up and start laying me some nice, olive eggs!

Coopacabana, I have four Wellies that I plan on crossing with my Am boy, but they too are only chicks... I'm going to have to wait quite some time to see what that pairing will bring.

 

[Coopacabana]

I understand that the F1 would be wheaten/ blue wheaten and then if i bred those back to each other I could get blue partridge (with other colors, of course). I plan on using Blue Wheaten Ams

 

[DMRippy]

I understand that the F1 would be wheaten/ blue wheaten and then if i bred those back to each other I could get blue partridge (with other colors, of course). I plan on using Blue Wheaten Ams

In your comment are you talking about a Welsummer and Wheaten Am cross? I don't think you will get any Wheatens on the first cross..... Wheaten is recessive and you would need to have 2 copies for it to express. Now if you breed those back to each other you will then get some Wheatens in the second gen. Someone help me on this.... I think that is right?