The Olive-Egger thread!

[DMRippy]

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I like the initial cross anyway. No biggie. The second generation gets harder with all the unknowns with the roos egg genetics. You could be breeding the wrong roo all year and not know it till the new pullets start laying.

 

[PalmHen]

I'd love some olive eggers. Do you know anyone in WA that has any?

 

[PalmHen]

I'd sure like some OE's. If you would be interested in shipping me some chicks I would love it!

 

[sol2go]

these ones are actually
blue ameraucana x white empordanesa

Hangtown - further along you also posted crele penedesenca x silver ameraucanas; it sounds like you are not as interested in the CCL crosses?
Do you prefer the olive egg color with ameraucanas in the mix, or is it in favor of the feathers or?
The CPxsilver am. seems like the offspring would be brighter in color and not resemble the CP as much as the CCL cross does?
I think you said the white empordanesa had the darkest egg color of the related varieties?

 

[Makomd]

I like the initial cross anyway. No biggie. The second generation gets harder with all the unknowns with the roos egg genetics. You could be breeding the wrong roo all year and not know it till the new pullets start laying.

Yes I was looking into an auto-sexing OE as well and found the same thing. The auto- sexing would be easy part, maintaining Olive eggs would be the hard part and likley unstable every generation. I am not sure on the prendesca, but welsummer carries the e+ allele and mixed with a CCL should be easy to Autosex, it just comes down to will it be an olive egger, blue egger, or brown egger.

 

[DMRippy]

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I find Olive Egger second generation to be all over the place with egg color. It is not a guarantee with the first cross. BUT I love the eggs when it works right.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Hangtown - further along you also posted crele penedesenca x silver ameraucanas; it sounds like you are not as interested in the CCL crosses?
Do you prefer the olive egg color with ameraucanas in the mix, or is it in favor of the feathers or?
The CPxsilver am. seems like the offspring would be brighter in color and not resemble the CP as much as the CCL cross does?
I think you said the white empordanesa had the darkest egg color of the related varieties?

The problem with cream legbars is the fact you can not use the rooster crosses and have to wait till the hens lay eggs to see what they lay.
you may get dark brown or brown. I do like the crosses though. Very pretty

I plan on using my crele penedesenca rooster. I have a bunch growing up and hatching many over the silver ameraucana to try and get crele pea combed penedesenca looking olive eggers stay tuned..

as far as the empordanesa egg. partridge penedesenca can be darker but these are not bad

 

[marney410]

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These chicks are about 3 weeks old. Does the one on the right (same one in the second pic) look like a roo? I'm thinking so. Thanks!

 

[marney410]

Pic didn't post the first time.

 

[ronott1]

Quote: That is a very nice egg! It has a Rock shape to it! A lot of the Pene eggs are shaped like torpedoes. Seeing that egg makes me want to hatch come!(ok that is a no brainer for me....)