The Olive-Egger thread!

[Manningjw]

Those are some nice eggs! If those are your brown eggs from RSL hens - I think they would be a good choice for producing prolific Olive Eggers.

 

[dekel18042]

My Red Sex Link hen didn't lay as deep of a brown color as previous RSL hens but she still produced some good F1 olive eggers. A few of her F1 offspring trended off to more minty colors due to their sheer productivity laying 6+ eggs a week, more than I would expect from a Maran cross. My first girl layed a nice Olive colored egg even though she only skipped 1 day a month of laying eggs. She was more productive then the original Red Sex Link was but sadly a raccoon got her.

These are F1 cross eggs from Red Sex Link hen with blue and white eggs from comparison:




The brown egg here is the Red Sex Link's egg, it isn't nearly as dark as my previous Red Sex Links have been but it was the only RSL I still had.

Beautiful shades of blue!

 

[WhittHavenFarm]

Yes. THank you. I have also purchased a Welsummer pullet to add to my CL flock.

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Those are some nice eggs!  If those are your brown eggs from RSL hens - I think they would be a good choice for producing prolific Olive Eggers.

 

[ArtLady1]

I am sure #2 is a rooster. I'm praying #1 is a pullet and I'm just not sure about #3. Any ideas? They are 5 weeks old.

 

[KernH]

Today I hatched some F2 chicks that I got from @KernH I had originally set 6, but the 2 that died died around day 14. But, the 4 that did hatch are beautiful and healthy!

Made my day hearing that! Keep me informed of how many pullets you get and about the egg color 6 months from now. Kern

 

[chickengr]

I am sure #2 is a rooster. I'm praying #1 is a pullet and I'm just not sure about #3. Any ideas? They are 5 weeks old.

hard to tell with crosses. #1 probably girl, #2 probably boy, #3 might be a girl. what crosses are they?

 

[ArtLady1]

hard to tell with crosses. #1 probably girl, #2 probably boy, #3 might be a girl. what crosses are they?

The lady that I got the eggs from says she thinks they are:
Chick one was from one of my red based Dellie-Wellie Roos and likely a splashed Olive-Egger Hen
Chick two was from one of my white based Dellie-Wellie Roos and likely a blue with red bleed Olive-Egger Hen
Chick three was from my main Welsummer Roo and likely a lavender Olive-Egger Hen
The rooster is chick three in her list.

 

[morbius18]

A few pics of one of my Golden Cuckoo olive egger cockeral.

 

[chickengr]

The lady that I got the eggs from says she thinks they are:
Chick one was from one of my red based Dellie-Wellie Roos and likely a splashed Olive-Egger Hen
Chick two was from one of my white based Dellie-Wellie Roos and likely a blue with red bleed Olive-Egger Hen
Chick three was from my main Welsummer Roo and likely a lavender Olive-Egger Hen
The rooster is chick three in her list.

my female chicks usually develop tail earlier but it seems this is not a case with easter eggers. another thing that helps is wattles, again not with easter eggers and their crosses. patience, time will tell!

 

[gimmie birdies]

I like your golden Cuckoo maran, mine has a golden neck but is blue.