The Olive-Egger thread!

[DeannaOR]

A walnut comb is like what is on a Silkie....I think.

 

[Little Wing]

Hi, I'm going to try breeding some Olive Eggers useing my Ameraucana Roo over my Black Copper hens. Should I pick a hen that lays the darkest egg or one tha lays a lighter colored egg? Will a hen that lays a spotted egg pass that on as well?

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I have an olive egger roo who has a walnut comb, is this bad?

hard to say. I have olive eggers with straight and pea combs

 

[mstricer]

Hi, I'm going to try breeding some Olive Eggers useing my Ameraucana Roo over my Black Copper hens. Should I pick a hen that lays the darkest egg or one tha lays a lighter colored egg?  Will a hen that lays a spotted egg pass that on as well?

The way I did it was I put my EE's under a Marans roo. I got some nice olive eggs from that combo. I have not hatched any of my Olive Eggers that are under my Lavender roo yet, they have not started laying yet. I do have in another pen Olive.Eggers and Marans hens under a Marans roo and an Olive Egger roo. Setting eggs tonight from that group.

 

[dfdesigns]

Hi, I'm going to try breeding some Olive Eggers useing my Ameraucana Roo over my Black Copper hens. Should I pick a hen that lays the darkest egg or one tha lays a lighter colored egg? Will a hen that lays a spotted egg pass that on as well?

I'd choose your darkest layers. The lighter layers will give you a lighter green, more like a regular EE egg, while the dark layers will give you more of an olive color. I would imagine that the spotting could certainly pass on, and I'm hoping for the same thing with some OEs from my Wellie girls.

 

[Arielle]

Okay question....I've been reading about olive eggers a lot now....but I've been reading mainly about the Roo being of a different breed and an Ameraucana Mother....what about having an Ameraucana's Roo and having Rhode Island hens and Maran hens.....would that produce Olive egger as well? maybe sounds ignorant, sorry!

Ask away--we all learned by asking!!

Ameracana ( blue) x RIR ( brown) = green from my girls ( very light olive)
Marans (dk brown) x EE (blue) = olive
RIR x marans= brown egg with marans coating also very interesting.

Hi, I'm going to try breeding some Olive Eggers useing my Ameraucana Roo over my Black Copper hens. Should I pick a hen that lays the darkest egg or one tha lays a lighter colored egg? Will a hen that lays a spotted egg pass that on as well?

It matters not--the result is different olive hues. YOu can breed a OE rooster back to the BC hens for a darker OE.

Spotted is likely to pass as it is genetic based, could look very cool One of my favorite eggs is a light olive green with tiny polka dots of varying sizes all over the egg. VERY PRETTY.

 

[Daloorashens]

Oh man, those eggs all sounds so pretty!! I'm waiting anxiously for my OE pullet to start laying, I'm planning on putting her and my EE's with my Blue copper Marans roo, I"m excited to see what I get.. I have a straight-comb OE that lays a decent olive egg, and an OE with feathering like an EE, so it's fun to see what happens with the different crosses...

 

[Little Wing]

I'd choose your darkest layers. The lighter layers will give you a lighter green, more like a regular EE egg, while the dark layers will give you more of an olive color. I would imagine that the spotting could certainly pass on, and I'm hoping for the same thing with some OEs from my Wellie girls.

Thats what I started with, my darkest egg layer. Thanks. Good luck with the Wellies.

Ask away--we all learned by asking!!

Ameracana ( blue) x RIR ( brown) = green from my girls ( very light olive)
Marans (dk brown) x EE (blue) = olive
RIR x marans= brown egg with marans coating also very interesting.


It matters not--the result is different olive hues. YOu can breed a OE rooster back to the BC hens for a darker OE.

Spotted is likely to pass as it is genetic based, could look very cool One of my favorite eggs is a light olive green with tiny polka dots of varying sizes all over the egg. VERY PRETTY.

I think I'm moving my Blue Copper in with my Lavendr Ameraucana. She lays a medium dark spotted egg.
Great info, Thanks.

Oh man, those eggs all sounds so pretty!! I'm waiting anxiously for my OE pullet to start laying, I'm planning on putting her and my EE's with my Blue copper Marans roo, I"m excited to see what I get.. I have a straight-comb OE that lays a decent olive egg, and an OE with feathering like an EE, so it's fun to see what happens with the different crosses...

I thought OEs had to have pea combs to carry the blue gene?

 

[Little Wing]

Just read COOPER12's last post that answered that last question.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I keep hearing that but it has never stopped any of mine that did not have one