The Olive-Egger thread!

[Little Wing]

The pea comb HELPS but until they lay you don't know what you will get. Sometime they don't lay olive..... I always say they SHOULD lay an Olive Egg and explain the other colors they could get.

The one that I do have has a pea comb. If I do sell any, thats what I will say, that they SHOULD lay olive eggs. Thanks!

I'm planning to grow all mine out to see what they lay, then sell any I don't want for breeding. I'll probably not sell chicks til I'm at F2 and happy with the conformation of my breeders.

In our area young laying hens of common breeds can go for $25-$40. A proven Oliver should go for $40 at least. I think it costs me about $10 to raise one to that age.

So an OE roo and an OE hen will make more consistant olive eggs. Once I have OE roos and hens do I breed them together and not use the Ameraucana and Marans anymore?

 

[Little Wing]

Yeah, i got that part. Just curious if anyone had broken out what they used with what, and what shades of olive they tended to get. And what the birds looked like for that matter

Thats the information I'm looking for also.

 

[Overoberyl]

Yeah, i got that part. Just curious if anyone had broken out what they used with what, and what shades of olive they tended to get. And what the birds looked like for that matter

I'm sure if you look through the thread you will find the information you are looking for.

 

[nicalandia]

you guys have the making for an Olive Egger that is also an Autosexing breed.... what a cool porject

 

[TAMMACLEAN]

you guys have the making for an Olive Egger that is also an Autosexing breed.... what a cool porject

Autosexing like some chicks have the white spot on thier heads = boy?? My EE/OE rooster was like that as a baby.

 

[nicalandia]

Autosexing like some chicks have the white spot on thier heads = boy?? My EE/OE rooster was like that as a baby.

not quite, the cross you did there was a Sex link cross(using sex linked barring)....

what I´m taling about is to create an pure, Autosexing Olive egger, the hens will have a white dot on their head and boys will have alos the spot but will be much lighter than the hens and the spot will be larger and extend to the back....

 

[naturespace]

to auto sex the mother must have the barring gene and the father needs to be a solid. She will pass the barring gene to her male offsprings and you will get the off-white dot on their head. Of course this does not work well with white breeds, because you can't see the dot. Tadkerson of BYC has a thread that has great explaination about sex-linked chickens.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/261208/sex-linked-information

 

[nicalandia]

to auto sex the mother must have the barring gene and the father needs to be a solid. She will pass the barring gene to her male offsprings and you will get the off-white dot on their head. Of course this does not work well with white breeds, because you can't see the dot. Tadkerson of BYC has a thread that has great explaination about sex-linked chickens.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/261208/sex-linked-information

that´s sex links, Autosexing its different and breeds true....

 

[Hangtown Farms]

you guys have the making for an Olive Egger that is also an Autosexing breed.... what a cool porject

crele penedesenca x cream legbar. we should all try it lol

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: Could you cross a CL and Cuckoo Marans? Would that work?