The Olive-Egger thread!

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ronott1, that egg is very pretty almost looks golden from the pic!

 

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ronott1, that egg is very pretty almost looks golden from the pic!

I am very excited today! One of my OEs laid a double yolked egg!

I think it was this one, A Blue Barnveldner OE:

 

[sol2go]

I am very excited today! One of my OEs laid a double yolked egg!

I think it was this one, A Blue Barnveldner OE:

I also have an OE laying double yolked eggs. In my case it's a crested cream legbar crossed with a crele penedesenca. Seems like that's a lot of work for those little bodies.

 

[ronott1]

I also have an OE laying double yolked eggs. In my case it's a crested cream legbar crossed with a crele penedesenca. Seems like that's a lot of work for those little bodies.

My Double yolk layer could be a CP X CL too. I have 5 of those, two Marans X EE and one Barnie OE. I will have to figure out which one lay the double yolk eggs-- I want to keep that one for sure!

 

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@ronott1. Congrats! I bet that is pretty exciting, I still have a while before my hens begin to lay. I noticed you have marans x ee, were they difficult to sex? What were the indicators?

 

[ronott1]

@ronott1. Congrats! I bet that is pretty exciting, I still have a while before my hens begin to lay. I noticed you have marans x ee, were they difficult to sex? What were the indicators?

I hatched two eggs, but knew they were pullets fairly soon. They had single peas and there was only a little bit of red on the neck of one pullet. If Cockerels, there would have been a lot of red and on the wings too. There were nowhackle or sickle feathers either.

It took longer than with the CL X CP or the Barnie OE. The Cl X CP are autosexing for at least the first generation. The Barnie OEs hatched out one Pullet and one Cockerel and I knew by 6 weeks for those two.

I really love to see all those olive green eggs!

 

[BeccaBeeOly]

Yesterday afternoon I came home from work and went to visit my peeps only to find that the comb of the chick in question now has a comb that has seemingly turned red overnight? I was told the chick was 5 1/2 weeks at purchase so s/he would be 6 1/2 weeks. The legs are thicker than those of my Americana and Wellsummer but they are only about 4 weeks now. No sign of crowing...and this chick was so docile, sweet and unexcitable in comparison to my others. The chick is all black and no coloring that I've noticed. I have read that bcm pullets (father is bcm) can have seemingly male traits and not to count your roosters before they crow, but now I'm a little worried that this chick may be a roo.

I stink at telling apart gender that early, but your description sounds "roo-ish" :/ You could probably get better help if you could post a photo. Fingers crossed for pullet!

 

[5moore]

I have three 5 month old pullets that should start laying any day. They were made by Cream Legbar roo x Black Copper Maran and one is CLB x White Maran. Should all three of these pullets lay an olive egg? or is there just a percentage that will?

One more question, if I take these three pullets and breed them, should I breed them to my wheatan maran roo or cream legbar roo? Will those that hatch lay olive eggs?

 

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Here are photos of the chick, you can't see the coloring real well.

 

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