The Olive-Egger thread!

[Olive Oil]

Here is a couple pics of my olive eggs and a couple of blue copper Marans for contrast . I have a few more girls that should start laying soon.

Beautiful!

 

[seventreesfarm]

My last hatch are finally starting to lay. Here are a couple dozen ready for a customer. I culled all my birds that didn't have the conformation I want, and this weekend I'll start trap nesting to see who lays what. I'll set up breeding pens on February 1st

 

[ronott1]

My last hatch are finally starting to lay. Here are a couple dozen ready for a customer. I culled all my birds that didn't have the conformation I want, and this weekend I'll start trap nesting to see who lays what. I'll set up breeding pens on February 1st

Those are very nice eggs!

Are you trying to breed OE to OE?

 

[seventreesfarm]

Those are very nice eggs!

Are you trying to breed OE to OE?

I have 3 roos right now, a golden cuckoo marans, a black ameraucana, and a son of the gcm that I hope is OE. So I'll try a few different crosses with my marans, ameraucana, and OE hens.

It's hard keeping track of who's who, but it's starting to pay off. I figure any hens that lay in winter are good breeders too.

 

[ronott1]

I have 3 roos right now, a golden cuckoo marans, a black ameraucana, and a son of the gcm that I hope is OE. So I'll try a few different crosses with my marans, ameraucana, and OE hens.

It's hard keeping track of who's who, but it's starting to pay off. I figure any hens that lay in winter are good breeders too.

That is very true!

 

[estamets]

I love this little face so much! Chuck (Charlie Brown) is a wheaten Ameraucauna x red star, and is about 10 weeks old. She likes scratching around with the big girls (more than her age-appropriate siblings), long snuggles in a lap, and racing after me everywhere I go. She's got a slight crooked beak, but it doesn't slow her down, and I think it adds character to her face.

 

[bamadude]

She probably hates her name lol...good looking girl tho

 

[Hangtown Farms]

my Olive eggers and first crosses are not laying now but my Black Penedesenca and Bantam Brown Red Ameraucana are

 

[matt81c]

I have crossed white rock hens and americana roo.If you like olive lighter colored eggs this proved to be the best combo out the crosses I breed.I had 2 birds but one got killed by a predator.The birds were fairly large in size and produce solid extra large to jumbos like there mom.I did breed this roo with my golden comets australorp and barred there offspring were smaller and produced darker smaller egas med to lg. The birds were smaller in height but are fairly heavy also compared to there moms.Sold all my extras and never hatched a roo outta 30 birds somehow wish now I would've kept the dad but he had to go he was becoming to aggressive and I have 3 little ones.Got 2 more roos a part ridge rock and a deleware as well as a silky all of them get along well unlike the other one I had.

 

[Olive Oil]

I have crossed white rock hens and americana roo.If you like olive lighter colored eggs this proved to be the best combo out the crosses I breed.I had 2 birds but one got killed by a predator.The birds were fairly large in size and produce solid extra large to jumbos like there mom.I did breed this roo with my golden comets australorp and barred there offspring were smaller and produced darker smaller egas med to lg. The birds were smaller in height but are fairly heavy also compared to there moms.Sold all my extras and never hatched a roo outta 30 birds somehow wish now I would've kept the dad but he had to go he was becoming to aggressive and I have 3 little ones.Got 2 more roos a part ridge rock and a deleware as well as a silky all of them get along well unlike the other one I had.

That's cool. I always liked Rocks. Never had the white though, always barred. In chickens the sex of the chicks is determined by the hen. If you still have her, maybe you can keep producing the girls!