The Olive-Egger thread!

[nicalandia]

I hatched some OE's last year from and Easter Egger hen and a BCM rooster. Only had 2 hens with pea combs. One finally laid her first egg today. Here it is next to an EE egg.

NIce...

your EE x BCM have a high percentage chance at laying olive eggs if they were hatch from a EE that layd green or blue eggs, its about 90+ chance

 

[ronott1]

I hatched some OE's last year from and Easter Egger hen and a BCM rooster. Only had 2 hens with pea combs. One finally laid her first egg today. Here it is next to an EE egg.

That is a very nice egg!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

once the blue egg shell gene crosses over(from the Pea comb to the Single comb) its again very closely linked to that gene, so if it will be attatched to that gene and since there is not way to tell what single comb gene was inherited by a bird, your guess would good as mine as to where that gene was inherited. meaning you will have to wait till the pullets hatch again to see if it inherited or no...

and thats why I switched to silver Ameraucana from CL with my Crele Penedesenca

 

[Hangtown Farms]

now @nicalandia
would the Creme Legbar Cock bird over a Silver Ameraucana hen work in a similar fashion to the Crele Penedesenca x Silver Ameraucana except with the blue egg as opposed to the olive?
maybe a good project for Farmhand

 

[farmhand]

now @nicalandia
would the Creme Legbar Cock bird over a Silver Ameraucana hen work in a similar fashion to the Crele Penedesenca x Silver Ameraucana except with the blue egg as opposed to the olive?
maybe a good project for Farmhand

@Hangtown Farms
What is your web site and Facebook site for Penedesenca?
Good question!

 

[Euarto Gullible]

I hatched some OE's last year from and Easter Egger hen and a BCM rooster. Only had 2 hens with pea combs. One finally laid her first egg today. Here it is next to an EE egg.

Nice egg!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

@Hangtown Farms

What is your web site and Facebook site for Penedesenca?
Good question! Facebook page is under my avatar web is www.penedesencausa.com

 

[spunkychickenmomma]

I tried to get some better pics today of my Isbar olive egger pullets. Cold and windy so not much cooperation. LOL The bottom pic is of my new Isbar cockerel "Chrome" I got Monday. Hoping to get pretty babies and nice olive eggs out of some cross bredding with him.

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

I tried to get some better pics today of my Isbar olive egger pullets. Cold and windy so not much cooperation. LOL The bottom pic is of my new Isbar cockerel "Chrome" I got Monday. Hoping to get pretty babies and nice olive eggs out of some cross bredding with him.

Tell me more about using Isbar for OE. I thought that the blue egg X dark brown egg breed was best cross?

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Tell me more about using Isbar for OE. I thought that the blue egg X dark brown egg breed was best cross?

a green egg that you know the parents of and a dark brown egg can make a wonderful olive egger though you have the straight comb issue.