The Olive-Egger thread!

[Hangtown Farms]

Wait, did you mean to say "rarer" or " rather"?

rare
most people are using black copper marans. even know your golden cuckoo does not lay as dark a egg ( well the hens)
you should still get a nice olive egg with a cross to a Ameraucana. you will have a cross fewer people have.
I am breeding a blue ameraucana hen to a crele ( double barred) penedesenca

 

[KingR0o5t3r]

Okay that makes sense thanks for the advice, and good luck with your breeding

 

[buckabucka]

Are you sure they didn't sell you EE's

Yes, she did sell me an EE, or an OE, in this case, I guess. She raises wheaten/BW Ameraucanas and had purchased new hatching eggs to expand her blood line. They all hatched as normal-looking wheatens, except this weird brown chick, which she assumed was an accidental cross of some kind. She sold it cheap, as a mutt.

 

[mstricer]

OIC

 

[DMRippy]

And what did the peacomb thing have to do with it?

The pea combed chicks from the cross will be the ones MOST LIKELY to give you olive eggs.

I would not call Cuckoo Marans rare... hatcheries sell them.

Silver Cuckoo and Salmon Marans are rare.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

The pea combed chicks from the cross will be the ones MOST LIKELY to give you olive eggs.

I would not call Cuckoo Marans rare... hatcheries sell them.

Silver Cuckoo and Salmon Marans are rare.

salmon sounds pretty a few pages back they said had anyone used Golden Cuckoo Marans which I think are still rare. So I assumed that is what they had. if not then my bad.

 

[DMRippy]

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All thing are relative....SOP Marans are rare. In the Middle TN area I know of 5-6 people that have cuckoo on BYC. I see them on CL all the time too. Finding Cuckoos with feathered legs is very hard. I may be the only one in the area with feathered leg Reg Cuckoos.

 

[KingR0o5t3r]

It is a gold cuckoo, not just cuckoo.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

It is a gold cuckoo, not just cuckoo.

I still consider those rare. at least out here in California. I think if you have it already you should use it.

 

[nicalandia]

I still consider those rare. at least out here in California. I think if you have it already you should use it.

they are an autosexing breed, dont know why they are not as popular?