The Olive-Egger thread!

[jctid]

x2 and no pea comb so PROBABLY not going to carry blue eggs genes.

He does have a pea comb. Might have been hard to tell in the pic, but there were nice rows of peas down both sides of the main comb.

 

[buckabucka]

But a cross of Isbar x Marans should lay green and have a straight comb correct? I've never seen an Isbar, but I got these as olive egger hatching eggs. It will be interesting to see the result.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

But a cross of Isbar x Marans should lay green and have a straight comb correct? I've never seen an Isbar, but I got these as olive egger hatching eggs. It will be interesting to see the result.

The hens you will know once they lay. Tough to know for sure on the roosters if they will pass on the gene. Maybe someone else can chime on the odds. I had good luck with my few straight comb olive eggers. I knew though because they where hens and saw them laying.
I would use the hens that lay the olive eggs back to a dark brown layer

 

[qball53]

We bred Marans to EE and Wheaten Ameracaunas. Out of 20+ birds we got two laying olive green eggs. The rest are laying dark brown eggs some as dark as the original Marans. Two of the hens are each laying two eggs a day .... at that rate I don't care what the color is, LOL. We are placing the dark egg layers back with a Wheaten Ameracauna rooster for another shot at olive green.

 

[unkadan]

We bred Marans to EE and Wheaten Ameracaunas. Out of 20+ birds we got two laying olive green eggs. The rest are laying dark brown eggs some as dark as the original Marans. Two of the hens are each laying two eggs a day .... at that rate I don't care what the color is, LOL. We are placing the dark egg layers back with a Wheaten Ameracauna rooster for another shot at olive green.

how many of the 20 have pea combs?,,,,,just curious

 

[sol2go]

We bred Marans to EE and Wheaten Ameracaunas. Out of 20+ birds we got two laying olive green eggs. The rest are laying dark brown eggs some as dark as the original Marans. Two of the hens are each laying two eggs a day .... at that rate I don't care what the color is, LOL. We are placing the dark egg layers back with a Wheaten Ameracauna rooster for another shot at olive green.

That is very interesting.

If the EE's have only one blue egg gene, that would make sense that the MaranxEE offspring might not get a blue egg gene and thus lay brown; their offspring that only gets one blue egg gene might be so washed out that the egg still appears more brown than olive?

However, if the Wheaton Ameraucana has two copies of the blue egg gene, then all of the MaransxWh.Ameraucana would have one copy of the blue egg gene; why would some appear olive and others brown?

I guess it would be helpful to know which mating the OE offspring came from. And interesting to know who got the pea combs as unkadan mentioned.

 

[sol2go]

unkadan - are all the dark eggs in your avatar from Marans? if so what variety, if not, what breeds? =)

 

[spunkychickenmomma]

My first test hatch of olive eggers. FBCM x cream legbar cross. Can't wait to see what they will look like. They are incubating away with some barred NNs, some LF lavender EEs and some banty EEs.

 

[mstricer]

My first test hatch of olive eggers. FBCM x cream legbar cross. Can't wait to see what they will look like. They are incubating away with some barred NNs, some LF lavender EEs and some banty EEs.

Yours and mine are colorful, here is my set

 

[Cotton42]

One of my other olive eggers laid her first egg today and it's a beauty!! Way to go Lady Penelope von Applebottem!