The Olive-Egger thread!

[sol2go]

I am breeding Silver Ameraucana hens to Crele penedesenca roosters
I traded some of my crele penedesenca eggs for another breeders
These are some dark penedesenca eggs. A few of them are as dark as some of the darker Marans eggs I have seen.

you keep torturing me with those beautiful eggs...I hope you still have them to offer when I have room to add them...

 

[sol2go]

I have two EE x Marans OEs and 5 CL x CP OEs.

My plan is to put 4 UofA Blues pullets and 2 CP pullets in with a UofA Blues Cockerel. That way I will have OEs from the UofA blues.

This is an exciting project for me.

Notes: CL and CCL are Cream Legbars
CP is Crele Penedesenca

hope to see pictures of the UofA OE's and their eggs!

Has anyone been using the Isbar as a starting point for olive eggers, since they are already homozygous for a green egg?

 

[Peach2u]

Could someone help me with the gender of this bird? It is an olive egger, now about 13 weeks old. This chick had a bright red comb at a very young age. When I sorted them around 10 weeks, I wasn't sure about this one and put it in the bachelor pen. Now, I kind of think it is a hen.


I tried to get a close-up of the tail area. I don't see any sickle feathers, but I don't see them on some of the other young cockerels either. The brown colored feathers are a different cockerel in the background.


Some of the feathers around "her" neck look pointy to me, so I don't know what to think. Sorry the photo is blurry and washed out:


I'm thinking about starting to integrate her in with the other hens, but only once I can confirm her gender.
Thanks for any advice!

I agree. She has nice round feathers. I have a girl that looks like her named Olive-Ann. She was from a blue copper maran roo over EE. She lays a dark olive egg. If this was a boy at this age he would have had a lot of long saddle feathers by now not the fluffy round ones at the base of the tail ;-)

 

[buckabucka]

I love the looks of those penedesenca eggs!

Thank you for the replies on my mystery bachelor/pullet. Since others are thinking pullet too, I will pull her out of the bachelor pen as soon as I get a chance. She's been getting along fine with the 9 boys, but that won't last long.

She is one of two crosses I hatched (and quickly lost track of). Either OE x OE (Marans/Ameraucana x EE/Welsummer) or lavender Ameraucana x OE (this one is a mystery, possibly wheaten Ameraucana x NH. I didn't hatch the parent bird). Is it possible to tell which cross she came from by her black color? I kind of assumed she was from the lavender cross since the split lavs are black, but her mom looks just like a NH.

 

[Little Wing]

We just got our first egg from an Olive Egger. It's more green than olive but I was wanting green eggs too. She is from a Black Ameraucana roo X BCM hen.

 

[ronott1]

We just got our first egg from an Olive Egger. It's more green than olive but I was wanting green eggs too. She is from a Black Ameraucana roo X BCM hen.

That is a very nice egg!

It may get darker too

 

[jesirose]

Hi all! I just got my first olive eggers a few days ago, I got 8 OE chicks. I'm so excited to see how they turn out!

 

[wescottwomen]

We just got our first egg from an Olive Egger. It's more green than olive but I was wanting green eggs too. She is from a Black Ameraucana roo X BCM hen.

Omg it's beautiful hope she gives more like this!

 

[Little Wing]

That is a very nice egg!

It may get darker too

Thanks. That would be nice.

Hi all! I just got my first olive eggers a few days ago, I got 8 OE chicks. I'm so excited to see how they turn out!

I saw your chicks. They're cutties! Good luck!!!

Omg it's beautiful hope she gives more like this!

Thanks. Me too!

 

[jeremy]

I am breeding Silver Ameraucana hens to Crele penedesenca roosters
I traded some of my crele penedesenca eggs for another breeders
These are some dark penedesenca eggs. A few of them are as dark as some of the darker Marans eggs I have seen.

These are from your birds, or another breeder? They're lovely.