The Olive-Egger thread!

[chicken pickin]

My Olive Egger pullet started laying. She had a secret nest and I found 3 eggs today. Violet is an EE x BCM and 26 weeks today

Here are a few pics

 

[carriebain]

Beautiful!

 

[Naturalway]

How gorgeous. So dark.

 

[chicken pickin]

Beautiful!

How gorgeous. So dark.

Thank You both. I was very happy with the color they are. I was nervous with it being an F1 cross that the eggs would be light green or brown. But they turned out very nice. I have her in with a BCM rooster so the chicks hatched will be F2s. I cant wait to hatch some out and see what they lay.

I have 1 OE pullets to go. She is roughly 19weeks. So I dont expect eggs from her for a while most likely not till early spring

 

[seventreesfarm]

NIce!!
I love how the olive eggs look next to the dark coppery ones. Reminds me of the retro appliance colors avocado, coppertone & harvest gold

 

[Penny Hen]

hey have any of you had difficulties getting fertile eggs out of your OE pullets? I have 2 roosters and 3 hen free range. I have seen the roos breeding them but the eggs are not developing the blastodisk. They seem to have quite fluffy butts could this be interfering and how much should you trim to increase the contact?

 

[seventreesfarm]

I've only bred from one of my OEs so far and she's been 100% fertile. I'm setting the 2nd generation on 12/11, so I'll know more then.

 

[ronott1]

hey have any of you had difficulties getting fertile eggs out of your OE pullets? I have 2 roosters and 3 hen free range. I have seen the roos breeding them but the eggs are not developing the blastodisk. They seem to have quite fluffy butts could this be interfering and how much should you trim to increase the contact?

Toss a couple into the incubator and see if they develop. It is not always clear if the egg if fertile by eye balling it. The scientific way is to use a microscope to measure the size.

The Rooster needs light to be as fertile as possible. You You may need a different color light or more light per day if you are giving them supplemental light.

 

[Penny Hen]

Toss a couple into the incubator and see if they develop. It is not always clear if the egg if fertile by eye balling it. The scientific way is to use a microscope to measure the size.

The Rooster needs light to be as fertile as possible. You You may need a different color light or more light per day if you are giving them supplemental light.

Thanks, that is the first I have heard that the roosters need more light too. Well I guess I will be including some in the NY Hatchalong to see if they will develop.

 

[Penny Hen]

NIce!!
I love how the olive eggs look next to the dark coppery ones. Reminds me of the retro appliance colors avocado, coppertone & harvest gold

You know as a kid I hated that combination and now I find myself more and more drawn to it. Nostalgia or just changing tastes?

Maybe early senility?