The Olive-Egger thread!

[cottagegarden]

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[Lensters]

Great info!

 

[pinkchick]

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Who are her parents? Not often I find a splash Olive Egger (or is it splash?)

Her mother is one of my suppose to be Splash AM's but she and her sister are EE's as both ended up with some very fine coppery orange lacing around their hackles and her father is my WAAAAAAY TOOOOO dark blue Blue Copper Marans Roo.

Bummer to learn about the pea comb gene and blue egg gene... good to know...but darn it anyway. I have 2 more little splash olive eggers in the brooder a couple weeks younger then her and both have pea combs......wooooowhoooo!
Silly me...I just gave away 2 blue barred olive egger cockerals.

That would have been an interesting cross and it just dawned on me that I could have used those boys over my blue barred EE hen. Can we say.....duh!

 

[cottagegarden]

pinkchick-but on the GOOD side(this didnt occur to me til much later)

PUT HER IN WITH YOUR AMERAUCANAS!! You will get chicks from her that are Olive Eggers and blue or splash at that.
She is way too cool not to use!!!

 

[pinkchick]

That's a great idea, but will she end up being as freaky as my AM's? I wouldn't want that to happen, she's so sweet.

 

[onthespot]

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Well, update on that situation, I decided against using any single combed barred roos. I just hatched more eggs hoping for what I really needed, the above roo but with a pea comb. I did not hatch it but one of my customers did. I saw him at a day old and KNEW he was what I needed so I traded her for a marans pullet on the spot. Crazy? I don't think so. She wanted pretty eggs, I wanted barred, bearded, pea comb chicks for next year. Over time he has produced one or two single comb barred chicks from the program, so I know he only carries one copy of the pea comb gene, but every one of his chicks from my flock has at least a 75% chance for pea comb/olive eggers, and a 25% chance of being homozygous for it. I am working toward homozygous for pea combs in that flock, so that when I sell eggs, the birds that hatch will no only look like they should, their first generation would also look right/lay right, even if you crossed them on a straight marans. I think it will take a couple of years to get to that point.

 

[cluckcluck42]

Great thread! I really want a few Welsummers to cross with my EE's, that would give an olive egger, correct? Such pretty birds you all have!!

 

[Lensters]

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As long as your EEs are carrying two blue egg genes, then yes. If the EEs are laying green or pinks eggs, then probably not.

 

[Imagesoart]

I have a cooper black Marans roo and ameraucana hen. Will that produce an oliver egger?

 

[Illia]

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Yep.

Even if she was an Easter Egger, she could still produce an Olive Egger. (if she had the right color of egg) What color is your Am? I've always wanted to see people get Olive Eggers without crossing blue/black/splash Am's . . . Just to see what the offspring's color will be.