The Olive-Egger thread!

[seventreesfarm]

Last night we finally did a conformation check a la Buckeye/Call of the Hen standards and decided most of our feed store/hatchery birds are not up to snuff.

Soooo.....off to the auction yard for them soon, and I have some nice black/blue ameraucanas and b/b/s copper marans eggs on the way.

I'm still hatching out some homegrown eggs, to see what my oliver roo makes with the nicer cuckoo marans & welsummer hens

 

[hannakat]

Hi. I'd like to purchase Olive-Egger eggs, chicks or pullets. So...thought I'd pop in here to see if anyone could point me in the right direction.

Thank you!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

great thank you

 

[Maggizzle35]

Here is a picture of my frizzle cochin hen and she has a comb very sweet and subdued so I'm going to be hopeful for you and say there is that possibility that it's a hen but the legs do look pretty sturdy. I noticed on one of my chicks yesterday that it has one yellow leg and one willow colored leg, Has anyone else had this happen? Also, I have a chick and one of it's legs wants to just stick straight out does anyone have any help ideas for this?

Thanks,
Margaret

 

[Maggizzle35]

Here is a picture of my frizzle cochin hen and she has a comb very sweet and subdued so I'm going to be hopeful for you and say there is that possibility that it's a hen but the legs do look pretty sturdy. I noticed on one of my chicks yesterday that it has one yellow leg and one willow colored leg, Has anyone else had this happen? Also, I have a chick and one of it's legs wants to just stick straight out does anyone have any help ideas for this?

Thanks,
Margaret

 

[ronott1]

Here is a picture of my frizzle cochin hen and she has a comb very sweet and subdued so I'm going to be hopeful for you and say there is that possibility that it's a hen but the legs do look pretty sturdy. I noticed on one of my chicks yesterday that it has one yellow leg and one willow colored leg, Has anyone else had this happen? Also, I have a chick and one of it's legs wants to just stick straight out does anyone have any help ideas for this?

Thanks,
Margaret

The leg is called Spradle leg and you need to splint it.

Look it up in the emergencies section.


Good Luck!

 

[sol2go]

I have a comb color difference between my olive egger cockerels, and am wondering if it indicates that I need to do something different, or if it is genetic? - Hangtown and juststruttin, this might be something you could specifically weigh in on -

I have two OE CCL x crele Penedesenca cockerels, right at 3 months old. They are from the same hatch/parents, raised in the same conditions. One has yellow legs and has always had a more vibrant comb. The other has white legs and the comb was always more pale and slightly smaller. Sorry I don't have a camera handy.

The basic difference I noticed this morning is that the roo with white legs has a blueish color at the tips of all of his comb and around the edges of his wattles. The roo with yellow legs is just as red as ever.

By the way, I am in SoCal and the weather has been lovely, although the fog came in last night and there was dew everywhere this morning.

On a side note, the OE roo with yellow legs changed eye color at the same time as the majority of his related hatchmates (about 2 months old or sooner?). The OE roo with white legs discussed above had blue eyes until almost 3 months old; they are still a pale color.

 

[Cotton42]

One of my girls laid her first egg today!!! I'm so proud!

 

[Maggizzle35]

what pretty colors

 

[SeattleLeah]

One of my girls laid her first egg today!!! I'm so proud!

Yay! Its a very pretty olive!