The Olive-Egger thread!

[Tikkijane]

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.

That is incredibly interesting! Has anyone had an EEr go between brown and green? We've got one that the kids swear lays brown now, when we knew she was laying green. I haven't caught her in the act, but I might be inclined to get an egg cam to see if we can sort it out. And even though there are times when she's in the box for a while and there will be a brown egg in there (too many sometimes to determine who is laying what besides color, lol), later on there will be a mystery green egg that I assume comes from her.

 

[Tikkijane]

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.

My EE who lays the olive egg does not have tufts, fwiw. I do have another one that lays a light olive egg that does have tufts. And, periodically, we get an olive egg with brown specks. Now that I know the egg color can change, I assume they can have the addition of speckles or not as well?

I haven't read the whole thread, but is the only criteria for this the color of the egg? Or is this another actual breed at this point?

 

[Christie Rhae]

Not a breed... they are in the club if they lay cool colored eggs! lol

 

[Resolution]

Not a breed yet but the progress these breeders are making is astonishing. They'll be their own subbreed sooner than later!

 

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

I know it's a long-shot but I am moving back to "town" with dbf to be the twenty three year old that I am and not this crotchety chicken, cat, goat, and duck lady that lives in the woods and talks to her animals! Is anyone interested in a flock of dominant white olive eggers? The f1 rooster carries the dominant white gene but I have hatched many chicks and have a dominant white girl that lays a pretty speckled olive egg. There is a lot of potential here and I just hate to see the last year and a half go to waste. I can put them on craigslist or the byc classifieds, but I'd like someone who likes the project have them. I have 9 hens that are 9 months(4) and 1 year & 3 months(5). 2 lay speckled olive, 2 lay solid olive, 1 terracotta speckled, and then the other 4 girls are cochin olive egger crosses. 2 are half cochin/half olive egger with pea combs and lay blue and aqua-y eggs, and 2 are their dominant white single combed daughters and lay pinkish tinted eggs. All the chickens were hatched here! I even have 7 9-week-olds in a different coop (only 2 or 3 are cockerels. They need to go as well.)

If anyone lives in Northern or Central California, even Nevada (I'm really not that far from Reno.) I'd be willing to drive part way or all the way if not too far for reimbursement of gas fare. I'm headed down to the SF bay area for Easter as well. I'm not even looking for an unreasonable amount for the whole flock if they go together I just want to maybe be able to get eggs from 1 or 2 of them down the road. A couple have bare backs because I only had 5 girls with Alfredo for a while.. And It's been raining sooo much here the last week its crazy, they're hating it. If this sparks anyones interest please PM me. I know this is supposed to be in BSA format in the right place on the forum but I really only wanted to check in here and not to everyone.

This is the 1 year, 3 month olds. Pic was taken at POL maybe.


Recent pic of Alfredo and daughter. She is 1/4 cochin.


Olive egger X Olive egger 9 months old

(egg from girl above)

Cajun also lays a speckled egg but I haven't gotten one in a while.. She also is regrowing some back feathers as she is the favorite.

(when I was getting eggs from her this was it. I recently upped the protein and calcium in their diet to hopefully help things.)


The brown egg above is from Picatta her eggs are always so lovely and specled!

Goldilocks


Patty


1/4 cochin. 9 month old.




9 week olds

Chicks I hatched this week.. of 7 chicks 6 are dominant white.






Egg pics along the way:

Unfortunately I no longer have the girl that lays the actual pink egg.





And I even have 3 extra cockerels! Look how handsome my 'yard ornaments' are. (hahah more like preditor attractors!)

 

[jeremy]

I know it's a long-shot but I am moving back to "town" with dbf to be the twenty three year old that I am and not this crotchety chicken, cat, goat, and duck lady that lives in the woods and talks to her animals! Is anyone interested in a flock of dominant white olive eggers? The f1 rooster carries the dominant white gene but I have hatched many chicks and have a dominant white girl that lays a pretty speckled olive egg. There is a lot of potential here and I just hate to see the last year and a half go to waste. I can put them on craigslist or the byc classifieds, but I'd like someone who likes the project have them. I have 9 hens that are 9 months(4) and 1 year & 3 months(5). 2 lay speckled olive, 2 lay solid olive, 1 terracotta speckled, and then the other 4 girls are cochin olive egger crosses. 2 are half cochin/half olive egger with pea combs and lay blue and aqua-y eggs, and 2 are their dominant white single combed daughters and lay pinkish tinted eggs. All the chickens were hatched here! I even have 7 9-week-olds in a different coop (only 2 or 3 are cockerels. They need to go as well.)

If anyone lives in Northern or Central California, even Nevada (I'm really not that far from Reno.) I'd be willing to drive part way or all the way if not too far for reimbursement of gas fare. I'm headed down to the SF bay area for Easter as well. I'm not even looking for an unreasonable amount for the whole flock if they go together I just want to maybe be able to get eggs from 1 or 2 of them down the road. A couple have bare backs because I only had 5 girls with Alfredo for a while.. And It's been raining sooo much here the last week its crazy, they're hating it. If this sparks anyones interest please PM me. I know this is supposed to be in BSA format in the right place on the forum but I really only wanted to check in here and not to everyone.

This is the 1 year, 3 month olds. Pic was taken at POL maybe.


Recent pic of Alfredo and daughter. She is 1/4 cochin.


Olive egger X Olive egger 9 months old

(egg from girl above)

Cajun also lays a speckled egg but I haven't gotten one in a while.. She also is regrowing some back feathers as she is the favorite.

(when I was getting eggs from her this was it. I recently upped the protein and calcium in their diet to hopefully help things.)


The brown egg above is from Picatta her eggs are always so lovely and specled!

Goldilocks


Patty


1/4 cochin. 9 month old.




9 week olds

Chicks I hatched this week.. of 7 chicks 6 are dominant white.






Egg pics along the way:

Unfortunately I no longer have the girl that lays the actual pink egg.





And I even have 3 extra cockerels! Look how handsome my 'yard ornaments' are. (hahah more like preditor attractors!)

OH my gosh, PMing you!

I'm so so sorry that you have to give up your beautiful flock.

 

[DMRippy]

I hate to see people have to do that. Especially when they are project birds you worked so hard on.....

They lay a lovely egg, you have done good

 

[Resolution]

Anyone with a hen that produces an egg as pink- clearly pink as the eggs above and wants to sell her, I will pay 100.00 for that hen plus shipping and box. I don't care what the breed is or even the condition given she's not diseased.

 

[DMRippy]

Anyone with a hen that produces an egg as pink- clearly pink as the eggs above and wants to sell her, I will pay 100.00 for that hen plus shipping and box. I don't care what the breed is or even the condition given she's not diseased.

I have a blue cuckoo marans that started to put extra bloom on her eggs and they are a pretty pink... I don't think that counts though.... she will not always lay with that much bloom.

 

[jeremy]

Anyone with a hen that produces an egg as pink- clearly pink as the eggs above and wants to sell her, I will pay 100.00 for that hen plus shipping and box. I don't care what the breed is or even the condition given she's not diseased.

Why Resolution?