The Olive-Egger thread!

[shannybell]

Quote: I have 3 Wellies and they are beautiful birds! But...they are hatchery birds and only one of them has a somewhat dark egg. I could use her I guess?

So you think the Lavender Am x Blue FCM will make a good looking bird? I have searched for that and have found nothing to see what that might look like lol. I can make that particular bird both ways.

 

[aart]

Quote: I have 3 Wellies and they are beautiful birds! But...they are hatchery birds and only one of them has a somewhat dark egg. I could use her I guess?

So you think the Lavender Am x Blue FCM will make a good looking bird? I have searched for that and have found nothing to see what that might look like lol. I can make that particular bird both ways.
I don't know that much about genetics.....there's an Olive Eggers group on Facebook with a couple people who could probably answer that question: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1541575112755530/

I used a Wellie roo over a blue laying EE and got some pretty nice Olive laying pullets.

 

[gimmie birdies]

from my staggered hatch, the rest are due the 16th, and the 20th, This one I will call Sparkle, she will befriend "Hen Solo" until the other chicks come.

 

[morbius18]

Golden cuckoo marans crossed with my easter eggers. About 1 month, All appear to have pea combs, with 2 possibly 3 cockerals whose combs are redding up.

 

[Penny Hen]

Have any of you had your Olive Eggers come out with pink earlobes? I have an F2 Olive Egger roo who has developed pink earlobes. He is about nine months of a Black Copper Maran/Ameraucana cross. He is a brown silver duckwing with a nice pea comb. I will try to get a picture of him tomorrow.

 

[gimmie birdies]

if his egg gene is a purple pink and you mix'm back to olive egger you get, well I got, a gray egg..

 

[dolfi]

I'm so sorry for all the questions, but I'm new one this. So far my understanding on what I'm reading is that if I breed a Maran and an ameruoanas I will definitely have olive eggers?

 

[gimmie birdies]

My dark brown, olive egg is Maran and Blue Isbar.

 

[Penny Hen]

if his egg gene is a purple pink and you mix'm back to olive egger you get, well I got, a gray egg..

That is so cool. I don't know what his egg gene is yet. Haven't hatched any eggs from him yet. His Earlobes are candy heart pink and I haven't seen that on any breed of chicken. All of my hens have the blue egg gene and he has the pea comb so it is likely. Of the hens I have two Blue Laced, one silver partridge (incomplete penciling) and a black pullet. The only thing I am certain off is that the black pullet isn't his mom because she wasn't laying yet. I am thinking of setting him up in a breeding pen with the silver partridge hen to see if I can reproduce the pink earlobes.

Some of the landrace Quetcha breeds lay gray eggs as well as blue, green and pink. (Black Olmec Quetcha, Colloncas, Sweet Potato Quetcha for example.)

 

[Penny Hen]

I'm so sorry for all the questions, but I'm new one this. So far my understanding on what I'm reading is that if I breed a Maran and an ameruoanas I will definitely have olive eggers?

The blue gene is dominant so if you have an Ameraucana (not an EE which may only be carrying one blue egg gene) you will get chickens that lay olive eggs. If you cross an EE with an a dark egg layer then you may get an olive egger or a brown egg layer if the EE only has one blue gene to contribute.