The Olive-Egger thread!

[heath_elisha]

My little Olive Eggers are growing =) 5 weeks old now. I know I have two roos for sure.

Painted the girls toenails today...just to mess with my boyfriend, but I kinda like it LOL.

LOL I love it..... great idea for keep track of who is who.... please do let us know how long it lasts

 

[heath_elisha]

That is a great way to ID them LOL I just don't have that many bottle of polish

Let us know how long that lasts.... my guess would be no long with all the scratching.

maybe a clear coat would be effective

 

[Arielle]

Divas!!

 

[DMRippy]

This is Cinnamon, my pullet that layed the green egg.


I can't wait to see what color the other 2 Olive Eggers lay.   I don't have any pics of Barnevelder eggs.  I just have the 3 Olive Eggers.

Haha...she is not supposed to lay a green egg..... genetically speaking. No pea comb.....sceince does not know everything LOL.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Haha...she is not supposed to lay a green egg..... genetically speaking. No pea comb.....sceince does not know everything LOL.

Yeah I do not agree with that anyways lol

mine is the same no pea comb and lays olive eggs
and what about Legbars they lay a blue tinted egg and isbars lay green eggs

 

[Time-Out]

The peacomb things isn't true. Look at all the other pea-combed breeds, none of them lay blue eggs (brahma, indian game, etc)

 

[Arielle]

Quote: Linking---it does happen. Has to do with how the chromosome split after duplicting. Usually it does it "correctly" and sometimes it doesn't.

 

[lizanne]

Haha...she is not supposed to lay a green egg..... genetically speaking. No pea comb.....sceince does not know everything LOL.

I guess no one told her that...

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I guess no one told her that...

 

[DMRippy]

Quote:

I just use it as a guide. I know it happens both ways, just not often. I think they say it is something like 3% with straight combs will lay a color egg.... I think it is much higher than that.