The Olive-Egger thread!

[Penny Hen]

I'm raising some FBCM 15wks old now.
I have Ameraucanas 2 yrs old
I want Olive Eggers.
BUT I read a few post that started this thread a few years ago that had PINKish eggs. How did you turn up with Pinkish eggs?

Lost the blue gene.

 

[nicalandia]

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thats one way to look at it.... the other would be that the parent with the blue egg shell gene was only heterozygous for it(some EEs have only one copy of the blue egg shell gene) and some of the females inherit the normal o+ none blue egg shell gene. not that the O gene(dominant) got lost somewhere

 

[maryhysong]

I'm raising some FBCM 15wks old now.
I have Ameraucanas 2 yrs old
I want Olive Eggers.
BUT I read a few post that started this thread a few years ago that had PINKish eggs. How did you turn up with Pinkish eggs?

I love all the egg colors that come out of EEs. Last spring I had a EE roo over the following hens; a white EE, black & white EE, a solid black EE whose mother was a black Australorp and who laid a sage green egg, an old Welsummer hen, a young Welsummer pullet that laid a pretty dark egg and an old hen that was WelsummerXleghorn.

I have about 15 pullets still from this breeding and they are beginning to lay. So far I have two laying very dark brown eggs, at least as dark as the Wellie pullet laid, one lays a pretty blue, several shades of green, from nearly true green through light olive to sage, some solid and one is freckled with brown. Three are laying very light pinkish eggs like my Buff Orpingtons. I haven't worked out who is laying which egg yet and I know they are not all laying yet, but sure is fun to go out and collect eggs!

 

[ronott1]

I love all the egg colors that come out of EEs. Last spring I had a EE roo over the following hens; a white EE, black & white EE, a solid black EE whose mother was a black Australorp and who laid a sage green egg, an old Welsummer hen, a young Welsummer pullet that laid a pretty dark egg and an old hen that was WelsummerXleghorn.

I have about 15 pullets still from this breeding and they are beginning to lay. So far I have two laying very dark brown eggs, at least as dark as the Wellie pullet laid, one lays a pretty blue, several shades of green, from nearly true green through light olive to sage, some solid and one is freckled with brown. Three are laying very light pinkish eggs like my Buff Orpingtons. I haven't worked out who is laying which egg yet and I know they are not all laying yet, but sure is fun to go out and collect eggs!

Easter is every day at your house!

 

[quailtrail]

My OE are about 22Wks now...still no eggs???

 

[maryhysong]

My OE are about 22Wks now...still no eggs???

My girls were about that age or a bit older when the first one of the bunch laid her first egg. I have noticed that the light colored and brown eggs came first, followed by a couple of greens. I think my girls that probably got 2 blue egg genes will be the last to lay....

 

[Penny Hen]

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Yep that is a much more scientific and accurate description of what happens.

 

[TherryChicken]

I just put some eggs in the incubator, I'm excited

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I just put some eggs in the incubator, I'm excited

nice what are they?

 

[TherryChicken]

nice what are they?

Olive Eggers, I think they are MAranXCream Legbar cross. Not positive though.