The Olive-Egger thread!

[ochochicas]

Agreed, that hen is gorgeous. I have one pullet and one cockerel that look like her. My other pullet is barred and not nearly as pretty. When they are older I will post pictures. Please post a pic of her eggs when she starts laying!

 

[gapey]

Agreed, that hen is gorgeous. I have one pullet and one cockerel that look like her. My other pullet is barred and not nearly as pretty. When they are older I will post pictures. Please post a pic of her eggs when she starts laying!

I definitely will. She will be 14 weeks old this week. She has a great personality. I call her my ranger. She's very protective of the other 3 girls her age which are a BCM and 2 easter eggers. She's always the first to scope out new surroundings and likes to just sit in the doorway of the coop to keep a look out. She used to also sleep in front of the food dish when rats were getting in. I now lock them up at night so the rats don't get to the food and she now sleeps on the roost with the others. She's also the easiest of my chickens to photograph.

 

[ronott1]

Not sure if I should be happy or sad. I was just told by the farm I got my Black Copper Marans from that one of them is actually an olive egger after I sent him some updated pics of the two BCM's I got from him. I think she's a beauty but was set on her laying me some dark brown chocolate eggs. She hasn't laid yet but should be in the next couple of months. I do have olive eggers on my wishlist so I am not too upset but also not too happy that I got something I wasn't expecting. Anyway, here she is Miss Molly. She even has the feathery feet of a marans. Anyone else have a BCM olive egger?

What was the blue egg shell cross? If it was Araucana based and not Cream legbar, there is a good chance she will lay brown eggs. I do not see peas in the comb, which for Auaucana based blue shells, the gene is something like 95% associated with a pea comb.

Post back with an egg picture when she starts laying!

 

[gapey]

What was the blue egg shell cross? If it was Araucana based and not Cream legbar, there is a good chance she will lay brown eggs. I do not see peas in the comb, which for Auaucana based blue shells, the gene is something like 95% associated with a pea comb.

Post back with an egg picture when she starts laying!

Ugh, yeah I just read about the comb and it's looking more and more like she probably won't lay an olive egg since she doesn't have the pea comb. "It is said that there is something like only a 3% chance that a single combed bird from these crosses will lay a blue/green/olive egg." Oh well she is pretty to look at anyway. I wonder if she lays a brown egg if it will be a dark one though.

 

[ronott1]

Ugh, yeah I just read about the comb and it's looking more and more like she probably won't lay an olive egg since she doesn't have the pea comb. "It is said that there is something like only a 3% chance that a single combed bird from these crosses will lay a blue/green/olive egg." Oh well she is pretty to look at anyway. I wonder if she lays a brown egg if it will be a dark one though.

That is more complicated since there are a lot more brown genes. The egg should be brown but the darkness of brown is unknown.

Let us know!

 

[Olive Oil]

I got my gray OE Olivia from My Pet Chicken back east. I was told she was BCM x either Ameracauna, or Legbar. Opinions on which? She doesn't look like my Ameracauna crosses, but that's definitely not the Marans comb either. If she was Legbar, wouldn't she have the crest on top of the head? I see some birds on here that look similar in build to her. I think J bar farms has some. Thought maybe some of you would have ideas. She is VERY vocal. Quite the personality. Just curious. Thanks!

 

[Tammylr]

I drool over the OEs. Would you be willing to ship a very small number of pulleys?

 

[dekel18042]

I wanted to purchase some olive eggers,but they were all sold out so I decided to make my own. I have marans and welsumer hens and a cream legbar rooster, and I intend to hatch some eggs this spring.
I've been told all the peeps will be barred because the legbars carry two copies of the barring gene (I hadn't been sure about that.)
So I'm assuming if your hen were a legbar x marans or even legbar x welsumer she would be barred. Also, not all legbars have the crests and even among those that do, some have more than others, Some just look like they're having a bad hair day.
From her look I would guess your hen has an ameraucana parent.

 

[ochochicas]

I'd guess your hen is a blue copper marans crossed with an Ameraucana or Easter Egger. She has he pea comb which indicates Ameraucana in there some where. It doesn't look like she has a beard though, so I'd say she isn't half Ameraucana since she would have inherited the beard gene. If she were black copper marans I would expect her to be black, so there might be a dilute (blue) gene in there as well.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Not sure if I should be happy or sad. I was just told by the farm I got my Black Copper Marans from that one of them is actually an olive egger after I sent him some updated pics of the two BCM's I got from him. I think she's a beauty but was set on her laying me some dark brown chocolate eggs. She hasn't laid yet but should be in the next couple of months. I do have olive eggers on my wishlist so I am not too upset but also not too happy that I got something I wasn't expecting. Anyway, here she is Miss Molly. She even has the feathery feet of a marans. Anyone else have a BCM olive egger?

stunning

I got my gray OE Olivia from My Pet Chicken back east. I was told she was BCM x either Ameracauna, or Legbar. Opinions on which? She doesn't look like my Ameracauna crosses, but that's definitely not the Marans comb either. If she was Legbar, wouldn't she have the crest on top of the head? I see some birds on here that look similar in build to her. I think J bar farms has some. Thought maybe some of you would have ideas. She is VERY vocal. Quite the personality. Just curious. Thanks!

I have some silver ameraucana hens and a crele penedesenca rooster I'm going to rehome. they make a nice olive egger