The Olive-Egger thread!

[bamadude]

Ok, who is good at feather sexing?? All are 4/5 days old OE's
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They are all males

 

[bamadude]

Im kidding. I dont have a clue

 

[ceancharles]

I feather sexed mine as all female and its looking more and more like 2 are boys. Check out my photos above.

 

[bamadude]

I have better luck picking lottery numbers than feather sexing

 

[ceancharles]

It was plain as day at 3 days old. BUT due to the crossing going on etc., feather sexing is like winning the lottery.

 

[Dianne88]

Don't scare me like that bamadude! LOL!! I figure I got a 50/50 chance of getting my guesses right!

I would be happy getting one splash and one gray Pullet and find homes for the rest. My chicken math is way outta control!!

 

[thecoachswife83]

I recently posted about egg color and ear color, but was told no correlation with the EEs... So... It there any way of knowing prior to egg laying??? My 1 EE lays green, she's almost 1! The other 2 are 8 weeks old. The girls literally have the opposite coloring! Shellie is the Orange/red with black (green ears) and Lucy is more black with orange/red and has pinky brown ears. I cannot wait to see how their eggs turn out!!!

 

[ronott1]

I recently posted about egg color and ear color, but was told no correlation with the EEs... So... It there any way of knowing prior to egg laying??? My 1 EE lays green, she's almost 1! The other 2 are 8 weeks old. The girls literally have the opposite coloring! Shellie is the Orange/red with black (green ears) and Lucy is more black with orange/red and has pinky brown ears. I cannot wait to see how their eggs turn out!!!

With blue egg shell layers that are based on Ameriaucana, araucana and etc.--with pea combs, there is an association with the pea comb and the blue egg shell gene. If the hen or cockerel/rooster has a pea comb there is a good chance they have the blue egg shell gene.

Do you have pictures of their combs? If so, post them here.

 

[thecoachswife83]

Oh !!!!!! Good idea!!!!! I'll go take pictures real quick.

 

[aart]

I've never read about a correlation of egg color to the color of the feathers over the ears.