The Olive-Egger thread!

[sol2go]

My olive egger chicks are from Cream Legbar x Crele Penedesenca.
Of nine, 7 have white legs (3 males, 4 females) and 2 have yellow (1 male, 1 female).

Does anyone have experience with the color of the eggshells, more green or more blue based on the leg color?

Anything else that might correlate with leg color in this cross?
... it seems that all of the chicks with white legs retained their baby blue eye color longer than those with yellow legs.

 

[seventreesfarm]

Here are a few of the eggs I have to work with. I'm not set up for trap nesting yet, so I picked 3 each Welsummers and Cuckoo Marans hens that had decent conformation, and put them in with Sasquatch. The 3 brown eggs are from today. Not the darkest, but not bad. I have no idea if Sasquatch has the blue gene though. He's half Marans (either blue or black) and half EE or whichever hens Donna was using for that batch, with a pea comb, so we'll find out in 6 or 8 months

The green egg is from one of my wheaten-ish EEs who is in with my BCM roo. I hatched some in October, but didn't keep track of who hatched from what. I like the egg because it's consistently big with a solid shiny shell. So I'm going to put a couple in my next bator batch just to see what babies come out. I ended up with some pretty chickens before, and if they were from this egg I'd like to keep breeding them.

 

[DMRippy]

My olive egger chicks are from Cream Legbar x Crele Penedesenca.
Of nine, 7 have white legs (3 males, 4 females) and 2 have yellow (1 male, 1 female).

Does anyone have experience with the color of the eggshells, more green or more blue based on the leg color?

Anything else that might correlate with leg color in this cross?
... it seems that all of the chicks with white legs retained their baby blue eye color longer than those with yellow legs.

Leg color has nothing to do with egg color. Yellow legs are a recessive gene and 2 copies are needed. All it means is you CCL carry the yellow leg genes and so do you Penedesenca ( I think I am going to stick with breed I can pronounce and spell LOL). White legs are DOMINATE so you only need one copy of that gene to show white legs.

 

[buckabucka]

Here are a few of the eggs I have to work with. I'm not set up for trap nesting yet, so I picked 3 each Welsummers and Cuckoo Marans hens that had decent conformation, and put them in with Sasquatch. The 3 brown eggs are from today. Not the darkest, but not bad. I have no idea if Sasquatch has the blue gene though. He's half Marans (either blue or black) and half EE or whichever hens Donna was using for that batch, with a pea comb, so we'll find out in 6 or 8 months The green egg is from one of my wheaten-ish EEs who is in with my BCM roo. I hatched some in October, but didn't keep track of who hatched from what. I like the egg because it's consistently big with a solid shiny shell. So I'm going to put a couple in my next bator batch just to see what babies come out. I ended up with some pretty chickens before, and if they were from this egg I'd like to keep breeding them.

Nice eggs. I have the same type of roo (Marans x Ameraucana). I crossed mine with dark brown, olive, and blue/green layers and I'm getting all kinds of different olive shades. I quickly lost track too, but I like all the colors, even if some are prettier than others.

 

[FromChictoChick]

F2 olive egger. Hopefully a hen! Nice feathered legs
12hrs old

 

[juststruttin]

FINALLY! After 10 long months, My OE decided to give me an egg. That's the longest I have ever waited on an egg. Crazy chicken.





EE on left, OE in middle, Wyandotte on right

Beautiful Eggs!! The one on the left looks like a great designer paint color. I'd sell it to Martha S. as a color swatch

 

[juststruttin]

My olive egger chicks are from Cream Legbar x Crele Penedesenca.
Of nine, 7 have white legs (3 males, 4 females) and 2 have yellow (1 male, 1 female).

Does anyone have experience with the color of the eggshells, more green or more blue based on the leg color?

Anything else that might correlate with leg color in this cross?
... it seems that all of the chicks with white legs retained their baby blue eye color longer than those with yellow legs.

These eggs are from my Crele Penedesenca X Cream Legbar Project. Nice large eggs too, and great layers. The two girls that I have that are laying have yellow legs, but I have a bunch of juvies growing out that have white legs.

 

[sol2go]

Leg color has nothing to do with egg color. Yellow legs are a recessive gene and 2 copies are needed. All it means is you CCL carry the yellow leg genes and so do you Penedesenca ( I think I am going to stick with breed I can pronounce and spell LOL). White legs are DOMINATE so you only need one copy of that gene to show white legs.

DMRippy - thanks for the leg color refresher re: which color is dominate.

While I realize eggshell color is not linked to leg color, I just wondered if anyone has seen a trend.
I'm trying to figure out which baby roos to keep.

Note to Phage/Just Struttin - I wonder if the Penedesenca Hen(s) in your cross are heterozygous for white & yellow leg color.

 

[sol2go]

Hi juststruttin - thanks for the pictures, I have been really curious to see what the pullet eggs are going to look like!
fyi - I believe my chicks are from your project via Phage last fall.
Somewhere along the line I heard you lost your Crele Penedesenca rooster and had switched to CL over CP. I'd be very interested to know if my batch had a Penedesenca rooster or the other way around?

So far my Olive Egger chicks have looked virtually identical to my straight up Cream Legbar chicks, both the males and females. As they grow out, they are differentiated by some feather colors, but still so similar. And such cute, curious personalities.

I have a few options for the next generation: OE with more Cream Legbars, or Marans, and that combination could be males or females either way. I guess if the OE is the hen in the mix, it is more certain that the mating will produce green/olive eggers in the next generation. If the OE is the rooster in the mix, then the next generation of hens may produce green or light brown eggs - as referenced in other notes on this thread.

I hate getting rid of the roosters when they are young, they are all so charming. If anyone has thoughts on the next color mix, that might be helpful =)

 

[juststruttin]

Hi juststruttin - thanks for the pictures, I have been really curious to see what the pullet eggs are going to look like!
fyi - I believe my chicks are from your project via Phage last fall.
Somewhere along the line I heard you lost your Crele Penedesenca rooster and had switched to CL over CP. I'd be very interested to know if my batch had a Penedesenca rooster or the other way around?

So far my Olive Egger chicks have looked virtually identical to my straight up Cream Legbar chicks, both the males and females. As they grow out, they are differentiated by some feather colors, but still so similar. And such cute, curious personalities.

I have a few options for the next generation: OE with more Cream Legbars, or Marans, and that combination could be males or females either way. I guess if the OE is the hen in the mix, it is more certain that the mating will produce green/olive eggers in the next generation. If the OE is the rooster in the mix, then the next generation of hens may produce green or light brown eggs - as referenced in other notes on this thread.

I hate getting rid of the roosters when they are young, they are all so charming. If anyone has thoughts on the next color mix, that might be helpful =)

My Crele Penedesenca project is kinda a disappointing story. I tried for 3 years to hatch a flock of Penedesencas, and hatch after hatch I only managed to hatch boys. I kept one Crele Pene Boy, pictured below. He was stunning and I really wanted to get him some girls.





Last year, I finally hatched two girls. They were almost POL when my rooster broke his leg between the feeder and the fence. I nursed him for a week, but was not able to save him. Now, low and behold, I had two girls and no rooster. Urg. So, I decided to put my two Crele Pene girls in with a Cream Legbar rooster . So, to answer your question the Pene girls are in with the CL boys. However, depending on when Phage got her eggs, there is a good chance the mother could have been either Welsummer or Partridge. Pene as I had all three breeds with my CL rooster last year. What color are their ear lobes?

I was having a hard time telling the male and female chicks with the Welsummers in the project because the Welsummer X Cream Legbar boys look like the Crele Pene X Cream Legbar girls. The Welsummers and Partridge Pene have been removed form my flock so the chicks I am hatching now are strictly CP X CL and most have white legs.

Here is a picture of a CP X CL 12 week old Juvie Pullet