The Olive-Egger thread!

[Heron's Nest Farm]

This is my olive egger ready to go out what u think

Pretty!

 

[EpicBlueAcres]

I have read that crossing a Cream Legbar with a welsumer will make auto sexing chicks but what will each sex chick look like ? Will the girls stay chipmunk and the boys have the spot on the head and be lighter? Thanks

 

[ronott1]

I have read that crossing a Cream Legbar with a welsumer will make auto sexing chicks but what will each sex chick look like ? Will the girls stay chipmunk and the boys have the spot on the head and be lighter? Thanks

Auto sexing or sex linked?

 

[dekel18042]

I have read that crossing a Cream Legbar with a welsumer will make auto sexing chicks but what will each sex chick look like ? Will the girls stay chipmunk and the boys have the spot on the head and be lighter? Thanks

I can't comment on the big scheme of things but I have a little OE girl whose mother is a welsumer and other than some pale barring, she looked just like a welsumer pullet when she was small..

 

[EpicBlueAcres]

Auto sexing or sex linked?

Auto Sexing

 

[EpicBlueAcres]

Thankyou for that observation, til I get more info will assume the girls will resemble welsumer or Legbar female chicks with the stripes (chipmunk) any anything else a male. I have a hen from this mix, before finding out they can be auto sexed, but don't remember what she looked like as a day old.

 

[ronott1]

Auto Sexing

That would be cool. Wellsummers are about 85% auto sexing so it might work(Don't let breeders fool you with that one! they are not 100% or as good as Cream Legbars)

 

[BelleFarm]

Hello i have olive egger roosters for free in New Jersey. They are F2 generation, and their sisters are laying dark olive eggs. Ill be uploading pics soon. PM if interested

 

[madicakes]

Does anyone have OE that they hatched from Papa's Poultry eggs? I have a few eggs under my broody right now and can't wait until they hatch!!! I'm curious to see photos of the hens/eggs that others may have rec'd from Papa's. He did a GREAT job packaging them. Not one was broken, they were wrapped and packaged very securely.

 

[Heron's Nest Farm]

I am too. I'm getting some birds from him next month!