The Olive-Egger thread!

[MrsFitzDarcy]

I just heard a peep in my OE egg in the incubator. I think we have an internal pip! Yay!

 

[buckabucka]

I just heard a peep in my OE egg in the incubator. I think we have an internal pip! Yay!

Oh, I love hearing those first peeps in the egg! Congrats. Hope your hatch goes well.

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

Oh, I love hearing those first peeps in the egg! Congrats. Hope your hatch goes well.

The other two OEs were pipped this morning!

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

I have six legbar x Marans crosses in the brooder right now. One is a crested pullet, but the rest look like cockerels. Urgh! I hope I'm wrong.

That's why I like the cross the opposite way, BCM over CCL. Sexlinked.

 

[mymilliefleur]

Just an FYI, I got some mixed eggs this summer. They were all Wheaten Marans crosses. All the chicks hatched out yellow, and then colored out like Wheatens. The males were black by 4 weeks and the females were red/brown in color. There are some variations due to mixing, but it seems like the Wheaten color was dominant.

Yes, I've noticed that too. which is fine, since I love the wheaten coloring.

Nice looking chicks.

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

I have two olive eggers that hatched today. They are ameracauna-cuckoo Marans auto-sexing chicks.

Unfortunately, they are mixed in with other barnyard mixes that hatched and I'm not sure who is who.

 

[Peep_Show]

If they're the only marans crosses maybe they have feathered legs?

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

If they're the only marans crosses maybe they have feathered legs?

Cuckoo Marans often don't have feathered legs.

Might be able to tell from barring if the cuckoo was the sire...otherwise the chicks would be sexlinked so some would have headspots and be barred (boys) and others would be solid.

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

I have two olive eggers that hatched today. They are ameracauna-cuckoo Marans auto-sexing chicks.

Unfortunately, they are mixed in with other barnyard mixes that hatched and I'm not sure who is who.

Oops just read your post again. They would be sexlinked, not autosexing. Good luck sorting it out!

 

[vpatt]

Cuckoo Marans often don't have feathered legs.

Might be able to tell from barring if the cuckoo was the sire...otherwise the chicks would be sexlinked so some would have headspots and be barred (boys) and others would be solid.

I have one cuckoo marans and she does not have feathered legs. I wish she did have feathers to cover up those pasty white limbs. Sometimes I call her Ghost Leg.