The Olive-Egger thread!

[bbhorsefly]

How do you guys advertise chicks? I have some hatchery stock EEs x with BCM roosters. Also have F3 olive Egger eggs in the incubator now x with the BCM roos.
I know they won't all lay olive eggs.. but whats the percentage of the ones that will?

I'm sure you're looking for a genetics guru to tell you percentages, and unfortunately I'm not one. But as a buyer, I'd just be open about their breeding. I have EE and an OE with an Ameraucana roo with a pea comb. I'd just tell them that they could lay olive or tinted eggs or brown, etc. I think most people know that there is a certain gamble one takes buying crosses of chickens. Even pure breds can have odd things pop up out of nowhere. Just don't pretend that they WILL lay olive and people can't feel misled if they don't.

 

[Pipe Dreaming]

I plan on something along the lines of "Chicks will either lay olive or brown eggs. Chance of chicks laying olive eggs is ___ %."
I think as long as your honest about the chances of them laying brown eggs still, you can't go wrong. Not like they're expensive chicks. (Not mine anyway )
I did buy hatching eggs last year and ended up with 2 OE hens. Yesterday I found out one is laying a brown egg.

Does she still have the ability to pass along a blue egg gene to her chicks or no? (Roosters are BCM)

 

[chickengr]

I plan on something along the lines of "Chicks will either lay olive or brown eggs. Chance of chicks laying olive eggs is ___ %."
I think as long as your honest about the chances of them laying brown eggs still, you can't go wrong. Not like they're expensive chicks. (Not mine anyway

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I did buy hatching eggs last year and ended up with 2 OE hens. Yesterday I found out one is laying a brown egg.

Does she still have the ability to pass along a blue egg gene to her chicks or no? (Roosters are BCM)

if I understood the genetics the blue egg gene is dominant so it would show up. but I am not an expert.

as a kid I was fascinated by speckled eggs this one in nice and reminded me of my childhood.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Yes, this is my understanding. If the blue egg gene is present, it will show (giving a green egg in this case). No green egg = no blue egg gene.

- Ant Farm

 

[BackyardMarana]

What color will hens lay from a cross of splash maranas and wheaton ameraucanas ?

These are the marana eggs

The light blue are ameraucanas and greenish ones are ee's..the dark ones are the maranas .

 

[annabellaknits]

What color will hens lay from a cross of splash maranas and wheaton ameraucanas ?

These are the marana eggs

The light blue are ameraucanas and greenish ones are ee's..the dark ones are the maranas .

Depends if the blue layers have one or two blue genes. Two blue genes will give olive eggs because the blue gene is dominant. Only one blue gene will give mix of brown and green layers.

 

[Manningjw]

Depends if the blue layers have one or two blue genes. Two blue genes will give olive eggs because the blue gene is dominant. Only one blue gene will give mix of brown and green layers.

Edit: My apologies I misread your post. You mean that in the crossed generation you might get brown or green if the parent stock has only 1 blue egg gene. You are correct .

 

[Manningjw]

What color will hens lay from a cross of splash maranas and wheaton ameraucanas ?

These are the marana eggs





The light blue are ameraucanas and greenish ones are ee's..the dark ones are the maranas .

If the wheaten Ameraucanas are well selected for 'pure bred' birds they should have 2 blue shell genes. They will pass one of those to their offspring and crossing them to a deep brown egg laying breed should yield 100% olive eggers in the F1 cross. Crossing to the green EE eggs, you could possibly start with darker green eggs however you wont know for sure if they have 2 blue egg genes to start with.

 

[BackyardMarana]

Thank you all guys i will start the breeding in a week or two..thanks

 

[shellikirbey]

I am also starting this project.I am going to try a BCM roo over my EEers that are laying  beautiful blue eggs.I am also going to use a cuckoo maran roo that came from a very dark egg over some of my EEers to try to get the barred for early sexing.I guess although in the future but I will breed another BCM roo to the offspring I keep.I will probably go through alot of girls to get what I am looking for.My EEers look identical to the pictures of MaranGuys so hopefully I will have half as much luck as he did.

I have ee rooster and cuckoo maran hens..would that still produce olive egger