The Olive-Egger thread!

[leedyfeathers]

Here are some pictures of my olive eggers and others

This is my first time to try and load a photobucket picture.  I hope it works!  Mary

that is some serious olive eggs... iv got to get me the marans and OEs to my list

 

[Deb B]

What EE traits do you think she has? I've read that EE's often (not always) have greenish legs rather than slate or black like the Ameracauna, and small or absent combs those are the only traits I've found to be different from the Ameracauna besides the range of egg colors pink blue or green. Pretty Bird's are blue. I sure hope she's not an EE, otherwise I'm not going to get those olive eggs. I guess I'll find out soon!

If you hear of anyone wanting a Birchen Marans roo, I have some young ones I need to get rid of. Same thing, too many! I have one who is 3 ish months, he's beautiful! They are huge! At first I thought my hens were just small, but he dwarfs them!

If she lays a blue egg, she's got at least one blue egg gene. So some of the offspring should lay olive eggs if she's bred to your Marans Roo. If you are lucky and she had two blue egg genes, they should all lay olive colored eggs. So all is not lost.

There is a list of very specific colors for Ameraucana's and Ameraucana breeder's adhere to the colors quite stringently. Everything else (even if it comes from two pure bred Ameraucana parents from different color lines, like breeding a Buff Am to a Wheaten Am) are lumped into the EE category. For more info: http://www.ameraucana.org/

 

[Olive Oil]

I don't believe your pretty boy is an ameraucana but a mixed breed :-(

He looks like a blue wheaten Ameracauna to me.

 

[Olive Oil]

Here are some pictures of my olive eggers and others

This is my first time to try and load a photobucket picture. I hope it works! Mary

Beautiful OE eggs!! Did you buy them, or breed them yourself? Do you know what cross and generation they are?

 

[tiedyemommy]

is it true that easter eggers typicaly lay arount 17weeks? or are they talking about some othrr breefds?

Two of my EE's started laying at 24 weeks...same as my White Leghorn & Red Sex-Link.

 

[kristin07035]

Anyone have any OE pullets / hens for sale?
Looking for one between 6 mos old and 1 1/2 yrs old.
Looking for 2nd or 3rd generation.

 

[ronott1]

Anyone have any OE pullets / hens for sale?
Looking for one between 6 mos old and 1 1/2 yrs old.
Looking for 2nd or 3rd generation.

Sorry, none here.

Look for someone local--shipping can be $200.00 for older birds.

 

[seventreesfarm]

I have a batch of chicks, hatched June 14th, that are really colorful. Dad is a golden cuckoo marans, not huge bet better conformed than my previous marans roo.

This guy is a straight marans cross, cuckoo roo over blue or black copper hen. All my crosses with these hens produce slow growing tails in the roos.


This roo is from the golden cuckoo roo over a splash oliver hen. Her parents are an F1 blue oliver hen and F1 blue wheaten-ish oliver roo. This guy has feather feet too, and a pea comb.


I can't wait to see what the pullets from this batch lay, so I can keep the roos whose sisters lay eggs I like.

 

[chrissyr]

out of this last hatch i have 1 female crested cream legbar, 1 female blue isbar, and 1 wheaten Marans cockerel. What would u do if these were yours?

I'm not sure about if it applies to wheaten or not, but a solid color cockerel (blue copper or black copper Marans) over the cream legbar I believe give sex linked oe's. Maybe someone else can chime in on the details on that.

 

[Manningjw]

I'm not sure about if it applies to wheaten or not, but a solid color cockerel (blue copper or black copper Marans) over the cream legbar I believe give sex linked oe's. Maybe someone else can chime in on the details on that.

Yep. Any non-barred rooster (except for colors that would prevent barring expression like dominant white) over a barred hen will produce barred Roos and non-barred hens so sex links. Certain colors produce more easily color sex-able chicks than others but as soon as barring expression is apparent gender can be determined.