The Olive-Egger thread!

[seventreesfarm]

We got our first olive egg today, from one of Donna's eggs. A pea-combed blue pullet laid it. We're going to cross her with both our Roos once she is laying well. BCM roo and Oliver roo. Then grow out Pullets from each cross to see what we get. Same goes for any other Oliver hens we get, but so far just the one pullet out of 6 has laid an olive egg. Two more are laying brown, but not sure which yet. Well start trap nesting soon though.

 

[nicalandia]

And answers my question... Green layer (Isbar) x Marans should give me a dark olive layer (unless I misunderstood something!)

Thats correct. keep breeding those hens(Olive eggers) to Marans and you will have the Darkest Olive eggers the World has seen

 

[nicalandia]

You are crossing a bird that only has one copy of the pea comb gene and one straight comb gene to a bird with 2 copies of the straight combs. GENETICALLY speaking only 25% will carry the blue egg gene if you agree that the pea comb is genetically linked to blue eggs.

Again your understanding on genetic matters is Very limitted. a P/p+ bird mated to p+/p+ will yield 50% pea combed birds that carry the Blue egg shell gene.. genetic is a Science not a guessing game.

 

[nicalandia]

We got our first olive egg today, from one of Donna's eggs. A pea-combed blue pullet laid it. We're going to cross her with both our Roos once she is laying well. BCM roo and Oliver roo. Then grow out Pullets from each cross to see what we get. Same goes for any other Oliver hens we get, but so far just the one pullet out of 6 has laid an olive egg. Two more are laying brown, but not sure which yet. Well start trap nesting soon though.

Nice. Love it

 

[dfdesigns]

I am growing my first batch of F-2 OEs. (F-1 was FBCM hens X Am roo; F-2 is the F-1 hens bred back to a FBCM.) Out of eight chicks only ONE is a pea combed (and muffed) pullet...

Once my Blue Isbar roo is a little more grown up I'm going to put him with my darkest laying Marans and see how that turns out.

 

[spunkychickenmomma]

I have my FBCM pullets split between my Cream Legbar roo and my blue Isbar roo. Going to see which cross produces the more favorable color that I want. I can't decide whether I'm more excited to see what color eggs the cross will make or what color(s) and patterns the chicks will be! Love having fun with the crosses. Colored egg layers in our area are in very high demand right now with plain old mutt EE pullets going for over $30 a piece. I think people will go crazy over the dark olive eggs. The picture below is my first attempt at olive eggers 3 years ago. They are an ok olive color but no where near the dark olive I am looking for. The eggs are from true Am x Welsummer cross. Also pictured are my Cream Legbar roo and my Isbar roo.

 

[spunkychickenmomma]

Sorry the roo pics are blurry. They were taken with me cell phone.

 

[dfdesigns]

Wow - your Isbar boy has a lot of white! How old is he?

I just picked up some Cream Legbar chicks a few weeks ago... can't wait to make sex-linked OEs with them!

 

[spunkychickenmomma]

He and the CL were both 5 months old in the picture. Thunder is the Isbar roo. He's even more gorgeous now than he was in that pic a month ago. The white looks more like an iridescent silver in the sunlight. I bought him from a fellow BYC member. She had 2 roos and had a really hard time figuring out which one she wanted to cull as she is working towards SOP. Her roo is just as beautiful.

 

[mstricer]

Quote: It doesn't have to make sense it is what it is. YOU make no sense. With the EE's the green layers, they already have a brown egg bred in them, you just don't know what brown egg it was. You want the darkest Marans or other DARK egg layer or rooster over a blue egg layer. You don't have to study genetics to see what you have in your hand. You don't have to be rude about it and you don't have to make anything easier for myself or Donna. I know that Donna was using green layers and was not getting the shade of Olive she would have liked, I know I started with blue layers covered by BCM and got nice olive eggs. Have you actually done this breeding or are you trying to make yourself look smart.