The Olive-Egger thread!

[DMRippy]

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Are yours second generation of that cross?

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Are yours second generation of that cross?

no mine are first. Once they hatch though I am going to breed some back to my Crele Penedesenca Rooster .
I got my first Crele hen to lay a egg yesterday.
My cat promptly knocked it on the floor and broke it.

 

[DMRippy]

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I seem to be making a habit of dropping the DARKEST Marans egg and cracking them......

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I seem to be making a habit of dropping the DARKEST Marans egg and cracking them......

I am hoping I will get more today. I have 9 crele penedesenca x cream legbar and 12 white empordanesa in the bator set to hatch Thursday night.
Then I will have a free bator and can do a test hatch on these.

 

[KingR0o5t3r]

I can get EEs in only partridge, and I want different colored hens that still lay green eggs. I'm going to breed some brown eggers such as orpingtons, Australorps, and barred rock to these partridge EEs to get new colors, but I would like these offspring to lay green eggs. I realize that not all the offspring will lay green eggs, but my question is will I get a better green egger to Brown egger ratio with EE roo and Brown egg hens, or EE hens and Brown egg roo?

 

[DMRippy]

It really makes no difference who the roo or hen is. I think the look you are talking about is just from the waters being muddied with all the crosses over the year, like what you want to do. My EE came in all colors. I had Buff, Buff laced, several like what you are talking about, solid black, blue and white...... There are lots of colors EE come in, some more common than others.

When crossing I would think you would get about half with blue egg genes and half with just brown egg genes.... so you would get some with green eggs.

 

[simschickens]

To anyone out there who has these WONDERFUL birds,
I am a small city flock(5 happy girls) owner and would love to have some of these beautiful birds. I am not allowed to have roosters per city ordinances, so cannot mix breed my own. Please let me know what I need to do to add 2 girls to my hen house. You can email me directly at [email protected]
Thanks for looking at my post

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I have 9 crele penedesenca x creme legbar than have hatched or are in the process of hatching.
None of my white empordanesa are yet though

 

[DirtyAnkleAcres]

This is a pair of our juvi birchen and cuckoo bantam OE's

 

[Chickengirl47]

Ooh, love the Cuckoo Bantam. Which is the male?