The Olive-Egger thread!

[Goober1201]

aww, you mean I cant have 2 boys?

I just really like the look of them. And that DARK Chocolate eggs the hens have. I want 2 or 3 hens too..lol.
Plus I want to get some Easter eggers and some Americanas and some Olive eggers or make my own...lol. I love Ill the different looks. The only think I don't have is a white egg layer. Hmm gonna have to get one of them too.

 

[KYTinpusher]

aww, you mean I cant have 2 boys?

I just really like the look of them. And that DARK Chocolate eggs the hens have. I want 2 or 3 hens too..lol.
Plus I want to get some Easter eggers and some Americanas and some Olive eggers or make my own...lol. I love Ill the different looks. The only think I don't have is a white egg layer. Hmm gonna have to get one of them too.

Yes, you can have 2 boys as long as you have enough hens to keep them both happy. It will take an adjustment period while they sort out the pecking order and will probably mean some flying feathers. Just keep a close eye on them and be ready to remove one if they just can't get along. I have 3 roosters in a pen with 11 hens, and 4 roosters in with 7 hens in another (Yes, I know, I need to lose a couple in this pen, but so far they are doing fine and the girls don't seem overbred, yet.) If they don't get along, you can always split them all up between 2 pens (I feel chicken math taking over here

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[Goober1201]

HAHA, ya, I know I want to lock him and a few of my girls up so I can get some babies. All my girls and boy free range. But I do have one BIG pen and coop.

 

[DMRippy]

To get TRUE Olive Eggers you need a dark egg layer like a Marans. A brown egg layer will not give you true Olive Eggers just green like you see in EE.

I like my Olive Eggs even darker, so I am breeding back to a BCM. May be too dark but we will see.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

To get TRUE Olive Eggers you need a dark egg layer like a Marans. A brown egg layer will not give you true Olive Eggers just green like you see in EE.

I like my Olive Eggs even darker, so I am breeding back to a BCM. May be too dark but we will see.

can not wait to see those...
I like all shades of Olive.
My lavender ameraucana x barnevelder lay a nice olive egg like the leaf of a olive. could be darker but not green for sure.

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: Me either..... still waiting, but not much longer. They are getting near POL.

If the color is good, I am going to try breeding Olive Egger to Olive Egger. I have a WL in a pen with a young Olive Egger roo.... I think I am going to hatch some just to see what I get LOL Super Blue Olive Eggers

 

[seventreesfarm]

I'm planning to keep a roo from my first hatch of BCMxEE and OEs. We'll grow them all out to crowing age, then pick one based on looks and temperament. I have space and hens to keep a couple roos happy, and want to have diiferent bloodlines to play with as much as possible.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I'm planning to keep a roo from my first hatch of BCMxEE and OEs. We'll grow them all out to crowing age, then pick one based on looks and temperament. I have space and hens to keep a couple roos happy, and want to have diiferent bloodlines to play with as much as possible.

love the quakers.I remember when the called them parakeets then conures...

 

[CountryFriedChicken]

Has anybody used cream leg bars to make olive eggers?
Thanks

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Has anybody used cream leg bars to make olive eggers?
Thanks

I had some welsummer / penedesenca x cream legbars was hoping to try but just sold them do to getting my White Empordanesa

I may try a crele penedesenca with a legbar next year and see. both roosters look similar so curious to see the crosses