The Olive-Egger thread!

[Lensters]

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When one crows and the other lays an egg.

Actually from my experience you can pick out a few of the cockerels early from their combs but to really be sure you have to wait until they are completely feathered out. Then you can look for pointed hackle feathers and saddle feathers.

 

[Lensters]

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The comb/blue egg linkage is something like 80% so it isn't a sure thing, it just increases your odds. I have a couple of nice blue egg Easter Eggers with single combs.

 

[hipeatall]

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When one crows and the other lays an egg.

Actually from my experience you can pick out a few of the cockerels early from their combs but to really be sure you have to wait until they are completely feathered out. Then you can look for pointed hackle feathers and saddle feathers.

No kidding!

I think that is when I will finally feel secure i my boy / girl predictions. Until then my poor sweet chickies will have to learn to tolerate my daily staring and fussing with their feathers... actually, I don't think they mind so much.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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The comb/blue egg linkage is something like 80% so it isn't a sure thing, it just increases your odds. I have a couple of nice blue egg Easter Eggers with single combs.

So then, it is possible to get an olive egger with a straight comb that still lays olive eggs, right? Just not as likely as an olive egger with a pea comb?

hipeatall......Mine are 7 weeks and I've known their sex for a few weeks now. Now the Orps, they still have me confused on 2 of them at 8 weeks.

 

[hipeatall]

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Ohhhh.... more details please... how have you known the sex for a few weeks? Please please please share!

I can pretty much sex all the other chicks I have that are the same age... Javas, Cochins, CBMs and Faverolles. I even have the white Faverolles all figured out! But these Olive Eggers are really tough for me. I mean I definitely have my "guesses" about who's a what

... but I'm not at all certain like I am with the other breeds. I think it's because all of my Olive Eggers have pea combs (which I'm very happy about for the comb/blue egg linkage)... but those silly little combs are throwing me for a loop.

 

[colby318]

My welsummer/EE crosses are 7 weeks old now. They're mixed with some straight wellie chicks I hatched at the same time (big mistake on my part). They look like a gang of hooligan roadrunners pounding around full speed everywhere. I thought I had the comb-thing worked out until I noticed one little straight comb male has some blue feathering coming in...

It'll be hard to sell him. The easter egger roo who carries the brown egg gene...

 

[NellaBean]

I have a beautiful black with copper hackles olive egger pullet. She is just starting to get a pinkish comb, so maybe she'll start laying in the next month or two. I couldn't find any recent pictures, but found this older one

I assume she is Ameracauna x BC Maran.......

 

[Noncentzter]

hipeatall - or just post a pic of them and let someone on here sex them for you, then you don't have to wait until there is an egg or a crow!

NellaBean - she's pretty!

 

[hipeatall]

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I was thinking of posting pics... the only reason I haven't yet is because there are just soooo many of them - I have 16 Olive Eggers. I will try to figure out a way to tag them (the leg bands I have are still big for these guys)... then I can take pics and mark who's who and all... I think it would be fun to get others impressions on these!

 

[Chris09]

Here is one that I hatched out of a Light Brahma Rooster and a EE hen.
The coloring is some what like a Blue Columbian...

Chris