The Olive-Egger thread!

[Manningjw]

Oh and if she is an actual she, does the single comb mean she may not lay green eggs? The info I'm reading is confusing and I wanted to ask. It seems that she needs to have a pea comb in order to lay green eggs? I'm sorry if this question is dumb. I'm new to all of this with information over load that is jumbling together.
Edited to add a link to her pic thread.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/891002/roo#post_13615680
Edited to add that the more I look at her, the more I realize the comb is more of a pea comb than a single comb.

There are a handful of single comb chickens that also lay blue eggs but more commonly they are pea combed. IE cream legbars have single straight combs and (SHOULD) lay blue eggs. If your chick was from a pea comb blue egg layer there is a strong possibility she will not lay blue(green) eggs because these two genes are relatively close to each other and are often inherited together.

Personally I breed pea combed blue egg and olive egg layers and immediately sell off any straight comb chicks as productive mutts because it is highly unlikely they will have the blue egg gene. Again that is only my stock I have no idea what kind of breeding program the person you got yours from is doing.

 

[Heatherschix]

Please please please be a girl...

 

[GaChick34]

There are a handful of single comb chickens that also lay blue eggs but more commonly they are pea combed.  IE cream legbars have single straight combs and (SHOULD) lay blue eggs.  If your chick was from a pea comb blue egg layer there is a strong possibility she will not lay blue(green) eggs because these two genes are relatively close to each other and are often inherited together.

Personally I breed pea combed blue egg and olive egg layers and immediately sell off any straight comb chicks as productive mutts because it is highly unlikely they will have the blue egg gene. Again that is only my stock I have no idea what kind of breeding program the person you got yours from is doing.

Thank you.
The mother is a Maran and the father is an Easter Egger.
I'm pretty sure this one has a pea comb. Would you agree?

 

[aart]

Quote: This comb? Hmmm, doesn't really look like pea, modified straight maybe...... I don't know, but am curious.

 

[GaChick34]

This comb? Hmmm, doesn't really look like pea, modified straight maybe...... I don't know, but am curious.

Yeah, it's hard to tell. It's changing and becoming wider and rough. My other girls have a very defined single comb that look different than this ones.

 

[JFreeman]

I have a girl very similar to yours.

 

[GaChick34]

That gives me hope. She's a beauty!

 

[Manningjw]

Yeah, it's hard to tell. It's changing and becoming wider and rough. My other girls have a very defined single comb that look different than this ones.

That comb doesn't look like pure pea comb, but it certainly isn't what I would consider a straight comb. It looks like a modified pea comb. The important factor is that the pea comb gene is present, regardless of what else there is.

When you mix the dominant pea comb with other comb varieties the morphology changes. I have one chick, a young rooster, whose comb was pea comb as a chick but now he looks like he is developing an exceptionally large center row, so much so that it looks almost like a straight comb.

 

[Manningjw]

This comb? Hmmm, doesn't really look like pea, modified straight maybe...... I don't know, but am curious.

My little OE chick has a comb that looks similar, she doesn't have defined rows like are usually present, more like a piece of gum stuck on their but similar in size to my other chick with a more defined comb. She first laid an olive colored egg but now it is more medium green because she has laid every single day for the past couple months. The color has dropped off because of her great production.

 

[GaChick34]

Ty! I just hope she lays an egg and doesn't start crowing in a few months.