The Olive-Egger thread!

[Dianne88]

Here is my little Maran X EE or OE cross chick at 2 weeks. Starting to see fuzz coming in on her legs which are still a dark green and the comb still looks like a single pea comb. She also has little tuffs on her cheeks. Please Please Please be a Pullet!!!!!

 

[Dianne88]

Here is my little Maran X EE or OE cross chick at 2 weeks. Starting to see fuzz coming in on her legs which are still a dark green and the comb still looks like a single pea comb. She also has little tuffs on her cheeks. Please Please Please be a Pullet!!!!!

One more pic

 

[seventreesfarm]

I love the green legs!

 

[Euarto Gullible]

I love the green legs!

x2

 

[Bethel3330]

Here is my little Maran X EE or OE cross chick at 2 weeks. Starting to see fuzz coming in on her legs which are still a dark green and the comb still looks like a single pea comb. She also has little tuffs on her cheeks. Please Please Please be a Pullet!!!!!

She's very cute! I have one, true Ameracauna roo father BCM mother. I'm playing the waiting and hoping game too!

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

She's very cute! I have one, true Ameracauna roo father BCM mother. I'm playing the waiting and hoping game too!

I got very discouraged/disappointed too many times with the Ameraucana crosses with months of waiting only to finally pronounce them cockerels. I'm going with the single comb OE as F1 hybrids as I don't think it's going to be in my lifetime that someone figures out how to make a breed of the Olive Eggers where they will reproduce themselves reliably. With the single combs, I only have to wait a few weeks. That's the theory, anyhow.

 

[ronott1]

I got very discouraged/disappointed too many times with the Ameraucana crosses with months of waiting only to finally pronounce them cockerels. I'm going with the single comb OE as F1 hybrids as I don't think it's going to be in my lifetime that someone figures out how to make a breed of the Olive Eggers where they will reproduce themselves reliably. With the single combs, I only have to wait a few weeks. That's the theory, anyhow.

Are you using Cream Legbar and Crele Penedesenca? They make wonderful OE that lay huge eggs.

 

[Bethel3330]

I got very discouraged/disappointed too many times with the Ameraucana crosses with months of waiting only to finally pronounce them cockerels.  I'm going with the single comb OE as F1 hybrids as I don't think it's going to be in my lifetime that someone figures out how to make a breed of the Olive Eggers where they will reproduce themselves reliably.  With the single combs, I only have to wait a few weeks.  That's the theory, anyhow.  

Lol we went to find some blue egg layers and got a few potentials. A guy had two Ameracauna roos with Ameracauna and BCM hens. One hatched with muffs and beard but is so big and bold it's probably a boy, the other looks very similar to my BCM chicks, but with a little less feathering on the legs and a little lighter overall. If it's a girl I might've gotten lucky. I thought I'd be having to breed my own OEs using my EE roo.
But, yes, I'm finding out these combs are no help! Lol

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

Are you using Cream Legbar and Crele Penedesenca? They make wonderful OE that lay huge eggs.

Marans over CCL and Isbar over Marans. None old enough to lay though.

 

[ronott1]

Marans over CCL and Isbar over Marans. None old enough to lay though.

Crele Pene X Cream Legbar are sexlinks so you know gender at hatch.