The Olive-Egger thread!

[Heron's Nest Farm]

Hello! I just received my first olive egger hatching egg as part of a mix. It is being called a "barred olive egger" and I would like more info if you all have it! First, does a barred OE mean a cuckoo maran parent and an ee mix (I received EEs and a CCL as part of the mix)? Second, will this chick be a sex link? Third, is this a true OE? And finally (if you aren't sick of my ignorant questions yet), how likely will the hen (fingers crossed it hatches and is a female) lay eggs as beautiful as this one? Thank you for all of the help!

Oh wow! I too am jealous. That is really beautiful!

 

[aart]

All 4 of Willow and Docs eggs hatched...two this morning two yesterday...

I shared a picture of Willow and Doc a couple of pages back... ;-)

I'm amazed at how different they look!

22 out of 25 eggs goodhatch! First ever hatch! Lol

Congrats...that is quite the mix of feathering!

 

[CowboysAngel]

Congrats...that is quite the mix of feathering!

It is! I read somewhere that they don't breed true...Doc's mother is a mystery, I know for sure he didn't come from Willow, so that leaves Rhode island red, Buff Orpington, Gold sex link as possible Mamas...he is identical to his dad except he doesn't have the green legs and there are a couple of dark reddish feathers that his father didn't have...you can kind of see them at the base of his tail feathers...

 

[jimswranglerg]

Heres a few from my olive egger project - 2 Araucana roosters (isabel & blue) over welsummer & welsummer cross hens... The result so far are spearmint green eggs

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[buckabucka]

And a matching sweater!

Nice egg!

 

[aart]

Set 9 'Olive eggs' to incubate yesterday...and 9 Welsumers.

The OE (Henny) was a casual and unquantified cross between what we think was an amberlink and one of several EE roos. I hatched her out last spring and she is a prolific layer of a fairly nice what I call an 'almost olive' eggs. We all know that the term 'olive' is highly subjective, thus my explanation

Anyway, I was excited about crossing Henny with my Welsummer cockerel..... but a friend hatched out one of Henny's pullet eggs with a broody last fall resulting in one pullet (Goldie) and the Goldie's eggs are more blue than the darker green I was hoping to see....way bluer than Henny's eggs, I don't have a good pic of them yet.

So 6-7 months from now I will hopefully know more about what color egg this cross may produce....chickens take patience, do they not?

These OE babies started to hatch this morning...on day 19..... oops, temp must have been a tad high.
They look good tho......2 out and another pipped.
Unfortunately the Wellie eggs never developed.

 

[Heron's Nest Farm]

I just hatched an F1 (cuckoo maran x ameraucana) roo over my chocolate orpington hen. I did this because his sisters are from the same parents and they are both laying dark brown eggs. He has a pea comb and I was hoping that he has the blue gene in there.

My question is:
I got 2 chicks with barring on the head and one without. Are the ones with barring on the head most likely roos?

I am hatching eggs with him (cuckoo maran x Ameraucana) over my EEs. I won't know what the heck is going on with his genetics until these chicks grow up! Just dying for some OEs! Maran's typically do not have the pea comb, so I am hoping he has the blue gene.

 

[ronott1]

I just hatched an F1 (cuckoo maran x ameraucana) roo over my chocolate orpington hen. I did this because his sisters are from the same parents and they are both laying dark brown eggs. He has a pea comb and I was hoping that he has the blue gene in there.

My question is:
I got 2 chicks with barring on the head and one without. Are the ones with barring on the head most likely roos?

I am hatching eggs with him (cuckoo maran x Ameraucana) over my EEs. I won't know what the heck is going on with his genetics until these chicks grow up! Just dying for some OEs! Maran's typically do not have the pea comb, so I am hoping he has the blue gene.

For black sexlinks, the hens have to be barred and the rooster solid with black working best. Barring is sexlinked to the female.

 

[Heron's Nest Farm]

For black sexlinks, the hens have to be barred and the rooster solid with black working best. Barring is sexlinked to the female.

I HOPE you are right! I have this theory that female chicks scratch more than males. Anyone else notice a correlation?

 

[Sill]

Heres a few from my olive egger project - 2 Araucana roosters (isabel & blue) over welsummer & welsummer cross hens... The result so far are spearmint green eggs

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I know it's not an olive egg but that color is amazing!