The Olive-Egger thread!

[Naturalway]

Yeah, looks rooish to me. You can sometimes verify by looking for the new saddle feathers coming in. They will be shiny and pointy on a roo. Pullets will just have rounded body feathers there. Ams and Am crosses (esp black ones) can be tougher to tell based on saddle feathers since they take longer to grow out definitively.

Thank you Seven....seems like that's all I do with chickens......wait........wait till they hatch....wait till they start laying.....wait till certain feathers grow...wait till someone goes broody and on and on it goes.....waiting. At least they are fun to watch while I'm doin' all this waiting.

 

[hotlipshens]

Has anyone used an ameraucana roo over a welsummer hen? If so, what color am and what color chicks? TIA!

 

[Deb B]

Has anyone used an ameraucana roo over a welsummer hen? If so, what color am and what color chicks? TIA!

I have some of those in the incubator right now due to hatch July 1. Blue Wheaten Am over Welsummer. I hatched 5 of these in May. Here's what they looked like at 1 day old. Someone was interested in buying all 5 so I sold them. Now I'm hatching more for myself.

My only regret for selling them is I really want to know what they are going to turn out to look like sooner rather than later!

 

[hotlipshens]

Oh my, they're cute! The couple I bought my welsummers from said they'd like one of my ameraucana cockerals so I'm trading a black am roo for a wel pullet. My blue and splash are still quite young but am pretty sure I have some blue cockerals and might try one over my best wel next year. Please keep me updated on your chicks!

 

[Dianne88]

This is my BCM X EE or OE (not sure who the roo is). She looks a lot like the BCM with the tuffed cheeks. Right now she's getting her feathers in so she's a little scraggly. She looks to have a single pea comb (for now) things change daily! She's 3+ weeks old and just in the last week or so started getting feathered legs. Tell me what you think, cockerel, roo and hopefully she is an OE!! (Photo bombed by an EE )

 

[Dianne88]

This is my BCM X EE or OE (not sure who the roo is). She looks a lot like the BCM with the tuffed cheeks. Right now she's getting her feathers in so she's a little scraggly. She looks to have a single pea comb (for now) things change daily! She's 3+ weeks old and just in the last week or so started getting feathered legs. Tell me what you think, cockerel, pullet and hopefully she is an OE!! (Photo bombed by an EE )

One more pic

 

[Peep_Show]

Question for you mix-and-match masters: Would the cross of a CCL roo over Welsummer and/or Wheaten Marans hens produce an olive egger?

I started reading the thread and it was mainly brown-egg roos over blue-egg hens, but I wonder if the other way around would work.

Thank you for your knowledge!

 

[ronott1]

Question for you mix-and-match masters: Would the cross of a CCL roo over Welsummer and/or Wheaten Marans hens produce an olive egger?

I started reading the thread and it was mainly brown-egg roos over blue-egg hens, but I wonder if the other way around would work.

Thank you for your knowledge!

Yes it would. It does not matter where the Blue egg shell gene comes from. Brown is a bunch of Genes- both the Rooster and hen has them too.

They would be straight combed so do not worry about the lack of peas in the comb.

 

[Peep_Show]

Cool!

Thanks for the insight.

 

[hotlipshens]

Diane88 - pea combs are notoriously hard to judge. Everyone with chicks from the breeder of my Ams says to hold onto them until at least 2 mos but I have heard most cockerals will turn red at about 6 weeks.Cute chick - good luck!