The Olive-Egger thread!

[dekel18042]

Know that your 'ameraucana' from a hatchery might not be a pure Ameraucana but a mix called EE's (easter eggers).

But if those birds do lay a true blue egg they may still work for making olive eggers...worked for me.

If you order from My Pet Chicken they do differentiate between EE's and Ameraucanas. The EE's are three dollars and change apiece for a pullet and the Ameraucana pullet is $20.00.

 

[cicknmama]

If you order from My Pet Chicken they do differentiate between EE's and Ameraucanas.  The EE's are three dollars and change apiece for a pullet and the Ameraucana pullet is $20.00.

can you get POL pullets from them?

 

[dekel18042]

can you get POL pullets from them?

If I remember correctly they do sell some in the 12-14 week range, but not all the breeds and I'm not sure if all the time.
Youcan check out what they have each week at www.mypetchicken.com

 

[Angie16hearts]

Hello guys! Hoping to get some info on my bird here. She's about three months old, but I don't think she has a pea comb? (still very new). I do know she's from a splash marans over easter eggers. I'm guessing I'll end up with a nice dark brown egg from her then? Also, any idea if she's going to end up with a black comb? At three months, I was sure the black would have bled out by now - my lavender orps have lost a lot of the black on their combs, as you can see in the group picture below, and they're considerably younger. And a group shot for good measure

I had a beautiful EE with the same black comb. She laid olive green eggs. Gorgeous ! Unfortunately a dog got to her . I have one more sane comb about to lay. Interesting to see if you get green .

 

[jesmtz]

Let me see if I can find one of my hens that is a similar cross.... The feathers on these, when they were pullets, look like the feathers you see. Also, the comb on the back is similar to the comb on yours. Also notice, now wattles like yours.

 

[Manningjw]

Shell color is not sex linked. Some of the brown genes may be sexlinked( I do not think so though). You get Olive colored eggs by having a blue egg shell laying breed crossed with a dark egg laying breed. It does not seem to matter much which is male or female.

I am not sure all the brown egg shell coating genes are mapped, there are a LOT of them but I would bet they are all in the same area of the chromosome and thus not sex linked like you said.

The blue shell gene that exists in many different species of bird has been inserted in very similar locations within the same chromosome to produce the blue shells which is what makes me suspect that the multitude of brown egg shell coating genes are relatively close together. I suppose it is possible some genes that suppress the shell coating despite presence of the other brown egg shell coating genes could be located elsewhere? No idea but I wish I knew more about it!

 

[Manningjw]

I must have clicked to "first unread post" I didn't realize I was replying to a post from over 1 week ago!!

Anyway, here are my little pullet olive eggers as they get close to POL. Really hoping for some nice green eggs soon, it is has been probably a year now since I had my little olive egger!

The two in the back are the OE'ers (red columbian type color and the brown/black pullet). The black one in front is a blue egg laying hen.

 

[ronott1]

I must have clicked to "first unread post" I didn't realize I was replying to a post from over 1 week ago!!

Anyway, here are my little pullet olive eggers as they get close to POL. Really hoping for some nice green eggs soon, it is has been probably a year now since I had my little olive egger!

The two in the back are the OE'ers (red columbian type color and the brown/black pullet). The black one in front is a blue egg laying hen.

They look very Nice!

 

[Manningjw]

They look very Nice!

Thanks! I am already looking forward to my next hatch of OE though, I have wanted a nice blue bird with red leakage for quite sometime and I think my OE will be the birds to have it! Going to use the rooster I got from your hatching eggs to breed to a brown egg layer to get there

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[ronott1]

Thanks! I am already looking forward to my next hatch of OE though, I have wanted a nice blue bird with red leakage for quite sometime and I think my OE will be the birds to have it! Going to use the rooster I got from your hatching eggs to breed to a brown egg layer to get there

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They will be very pretty!