The Olive-Egger thread!

[fosterson]

BTW rooster still not roostering.

I can already tell this will be a standard phrase at my house. Only in the negative, "Fugly! Stop roostering!"

 

[Betsy57]

Betsy what color was it?

What color was the chicken? Two are black and one is a slate gray/charcoal. There was supposed to be 2 OE and 2 Amercaunas (blue eggs). So evidently I have 3 OE and hoping the other Amercauna will lay a blue egg. I am obsessed with getting blue eggs!! I also got 2 Lavender Orphingtons in this 6 that I purchased from www.chickenscratchpoultry.com Paid $150, $25 for each and they were 2 months old when I got them. Drove to get them as they are in southern Illinois too.

 

[Betsy57]

Well at 24 and a half weeks old one of my OE laid a regular ole brown egg. She has a pea comb and fluffy cheeks and beard. Pretty disappointed in color but happy to have her laying finally. I still have 7 young ones left so maybe they will come through for me.
BTW rooster still not roostering.

I love when they start trying to crow. It is so funny!! Mine started trying to crow at about 4 months. He sounds good now but it was pretty rough at first.

 

[Naturalway]

I'm sorry I meant the egg, but I think I figured out that it is olive colored right? *sigh* must be nice.

 

[Betsy57]

I'm sorry I meant the egg, but I think I figured out that it is olive colored right? *sigh* must be nice.

Yes, Olive Eggers lay olive colored eggs. I have some EEs that lay a medium to light green egg. I am still waiting for my blue egg chickens to lay. I want blue eggs!



Yeah! A blue egg today! These gals are just about 4 1/2 months old!

 

[Blarneyeggs]

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Why, Thank You!! the eggs are wet…AND I used a flash~ both no-nos for me with photographing eggs, but I was in a rush.

Here's another egg pic, the egg in the middle of the flower to the right is my very first Olive Egg. : )



and…another wet pic..

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[Darkangael]

Thanks for sharing and they are absolutely gorgeous =)

 

[Naturalway]

(Note to self) Thou shalt not covet another's eggs....repeat as necessary...

 

[TammyTX]

I have a half Welsummer/half EE'r rooster. If I breed him back to a EE'r or a Black Cooper, will the pullets out of those unions produce Olive Eggs?

One EE'r that I have now produces a very nice green egg...the green egg in my avatar. Would it be better to breed the green egg layer to a full blooded Welsummer or Cuckoo Maran rooster?

 

[maryhysong]

I have a half Welsummer/half EE'r rooster. If I breed him back to a EE'r or a Black Cooper, will the pullets out of those unions produce Olive Eggs?

One EE'r that I have now produces a very nice green egg...the green egg in my avatar. Would it be better to breed the green egg layer to a full blooded Welsummer or Cuckoo Maran rooster

my experience has been breeding different hens to an EE of unknown parentage. In the group of hens, two were pure Welsummer, two were Wellie/leghorn crosses and one was an Australorp/EE cross. Of the dozen or so pullets laying from this breeding about a fourth lay some shade of brown; from pale like a buff orpington to a dark brown like a Welsummer. I would guess in your case you will get about three fourths or so of the pullets laying some shade of green and the rest some shade of brown if you breed him to a black copper or a welsummer.

In the case of your green layer, do you have the mother or sisters of the roos in question? I would breed to which ever carries the darkest egg genetics if I wanted olivers. Again realizing some will lay brown.