The Olive-Egger thread!

[michaelf]

I had some OE fall into my Brinsea . Both have a cuckoo Marans over them. One is my Olive egger girl and the other is a lavender amerucauna. Trying to get a darker shade of olive (f2) and an olive egger with the amerucauna. Hopefully barred

 

[JFreeman]

I found a good home for him. A friend of my cousin lost her roo over the weekend he was 8 years old. Rusty will have his own girls and will be pampered LOL.

I haven't been on the OE chat much. I lost 2 years of breeding over the winter. I forgot to close the coop up one night. Came out the next morning and I found 22 chickens beheaded in the coop and my 16# rooster out next to the woods disemboweled. I was not happy! I lost all but 4 OE's I had been breeding. The only reason I had the 4 was they where in separate cages. The OE mom and 2, 3 week old chicks.I had a young OE roo in his own cage. He was getting picked on. Both chicks turned out to be boys ;-( So I get to start over. Right now I have a broody sitting on 11 chocolate eggs from a Welsummer and BCM the roo over the Wellies is an Americana and over the BCM an OE roo. I got an incubator coming in the mail tomorrow. I been saving blue and mint green eggs covered by an OE roo. I will rebuild my flock. I don't think I'll go back up to 63 again.

That is horrible! One of my friends had the same problem, though all of her chickens were acquired over the winter. Luckily, all of the chicks (she has about 30 or so) we ordered and hatched were in a different place on the property. She thinks a fox was the culprit because nothing was left. I'm sorry about your loss.

 

[Peach2u]

Ah Thank you. I think it was a raccoon maybe an opossum. What ever it was climbed up the closet wall. Up the 55 gal barrel then a 4' wall. From there it chewed the chicken wire that was above the coop and down it went. It took the rooster out the same way. What a mess. I was heart broken. I lost my oldest chicken an EE that was 6 she didn't lay much anymore but when she did they where doubles. I was at a point of getting rid of it all and turning the coop into something else. But, I have been getting my revenge. That week we borrowed a thermal night scope. I loved that scope. If I had 6K to blow I'd get one lol. We got a 30# opossum a huge male. I never seen one that big. He was in the top of a tree about 20' from the coop. Since we have trapped 6 raccoon's. I had a seventh last week end. It got away. About 7 in the morning all my chickens where making an awful noise. I go out and all 16 where standing about 3' from a caged raccoon. It saw me and freaked out. It broke my cage and got away. I now have a heavy duty cage, but I doubt it will ever go in a cage again. Smart little critters. It was a huge female. I'm sure there will be kits soon.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

You need a god hound or two. I have lost birds too due to the same critters. My chow-german shepherd mix made an excellent hunter, she was raised with the birds so the birds became her pack and the chickens thought she was a flock member... all other critters died once she was on patrol at night!

 

[TheChookPatch]

I had some OE fall into my Brinsea . Both have a cuckoo Marans over them. One is my Olive egger girl and the other is a lavender amerucauna. Trying to get a darker shade of olive (f2) and an olive egger with the amerucauna. Hopefully barred

Nice eggs

 

[michaelf]

Nice eggs

Thanks, they are actually greener. Picture is from my phone.

 

[TheChookPatch]

I can see, it looks like a nice even pigment I find them harder to photograph than my Marans...

 

[michaelf]

Nice color on your OE and Marans egg. Congrats on the chick.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I can see, it looks like a nice even pigment I find them harder to photograph than my Marans...

very nice. Any new news on Penedesenca getting into Australia? is Spain exporting right now? I am looking into it hear and Dr. Francesch there thinks they may not be allowing it yet

 

[nicalandia]

wow. so nice colored Olives....



I dont know how many of you are interested in History or genetics..

but here I post what I believe to be the first "Documented" Olive egger cross and Olive eggers.. By Dr. Punnett

Dr. Reginald Punnett's the Feathered world 1931
http://www.ias.ac.in/jarch/jgenet/27/465.pdf

where on this paper the good doctor stuides the nature of the Blue egg genes he found on the "Chilean" Mongrel stock he got(not Araucana stock) most of his studies are with white or brown eggers mated to the blue egg line, with the exception of a Cross to a Welsummer rooster that produce Olive eggers and also studies the effect of brown pigment inhibitors

some screen shots from it