The Olive-Egger thread!

[nicalandia]

I would hope that CCL also carry 2 copies of the blue egg gene.... then you would get 100% off spring with the blue egg gene.

thats correct..BUT to get Olive eggers(unlike green eggers) a cross back to Maran or other Dark dark brown eggers is need it.. so a cross of the darkest green egger of the F1 hens back to a Maran rooster is need it, and this cross will produce 50% Olive egger birds(50% of that number are females) so say you hatch 20 eggs. and 10 of them are females you would expect 5 of them to lay "Olive" eggs at this stage. but how can you tell wich of these single combed hens will carry the blue eggs? well there NO WAY to know, that is untill they start laying, so you would have to keep all the hens untill they start laying. and thats for females. for roosters? how can you know if they carry the blue egg gene? there is absolutly no way to tell them apart from the other single combed roosters... thats the Beauty of using the Pea combed EE hens that are known to lay green eggs. they will produce pea comb birds, males and females and as I said you have 95% chance the pea combed birds carry the blue egg gene, making culling easy and having to expend less money on feed for birds that wont lay Olive eggers

 

[Chickengirl47]

This has to be one of the cutest little things I've ever seen!  Is he as sweet as he looks?  

Yep, he is very sweet. I love him.

 

[sol2go]

juststruttin - that is such a sad story about your rooster, and he was so pretty too. Sorry for your loss, thanks for sharing the photo.
So your olive egg photos are from a CL roo over CP hens...and the offspring looks like the photo of the juvie pullet you also posted - correct?

My OE pullets are basically the same age as yours in the photo, and all seem to match very closely. I would say they all have white ears, which is a different shade than the CL pullets. The main variations I'm noticing are yellow vs white leg color, and little or no crest. Most of the pullets have a small, very light comb at this age and no wattles to speak of. However some show more red in the comb and more developed wattles by 8 weeks, but nothing like their brothers, which look more typically like CP or CL roos.

I do have two batches of OE's from Phage:
one was hatched out around the third week of November, I would say they came from you around Halloween.
the second batch hatched out mid December, probably came from you around Thanksgiving.

Phage mentioned that Partridge Penedesencas might be in the mix, but I haven't seen any evidence of that? I wonder how that would look on the cockerels vs the pullets? Do you have any photos?

Thanks for the info.
Hangtown, too.

 

[Hillschicks]

Crossing an EE with a dark brown egg layer will give you an olive egger... My question, does it matter which is the roo and which is the hen???

Example...
EE roo + maran hen = olive egger
Maran roo + EE hen = olive egger
Both of those are correct??

 

[mstricer]

My 4 week old Barred EE's are crowing

I have a chick that looks like a Barred EE to! Here is a picture of Dustin. Any advice on his age would help.

He does crow.

I would say older then 10 weeks.

 

[farmerChef]

Crossing an EE with a dark brown egg layer will give you an olive egger... My question, does it matter which is the roo and which is the hen???

Example...
EE roo + maran hen = olive egger
Maran roo + EE hen = olive egger
Both of those are correct??

yes, you can get olive eggers both ways, but if you EE only has 1 copy of the blue gene(and 1 brown), most of your chicks will lay brown eggs. Thats why most people use pure ameraucanas. If you hatch any chicks withh single combs, they only have a 3% chance of having the blue egg gene(and laying green/olive eggs) as it is closely linked to the pea combed gene. There is an Olive egger thread you can go to for more info

 

[Hillschicks]

Thought this was the olive egger thread

 

[maryhysong]

Thought this was the olive egger thread

LoL! I think this was a case of mistaken thread identity ;-)

 

[Hillschicks]

Lol, guess so... We would love to go the ameracauna route, but im hesitant to buy one or two on account hatcherys sell EE labled as them... Figure for now we will screw around with our 3 EE's and our welsummer rooster... See how it goes... If we have no luck, maybe i'll try to find pure ameracauna and a breeder quality maran to go with her

 

[farmerChef]

Thought this was the olive egger thread

oops, I tought I was on the EE thread