The Olive-Egger thread!

[buckabucka]

That's a pretty rooster SeattleLeah!

I cringed when I read your post, not because of anything to do with your rooster, but to know that determining his sex (until you got the plumage information) is not obvious at 10 weeks. I have an assortment of chicks that are 4 weeks old, and it is driving me crazy trying to figure this out. I was hoping in another week or two, it would be obvious.
My three olive eggers are definitely boys, but the wheaten and blue Marans are a real puzzle for me! Time will tell, someday.

 

[dfdesigns]

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I just read on another thread where someone was crating their boys at night, plus turning on a radio for them, too. Seven am came and went without a single crow...

 

[Blarneyeggs]

I finally got my first Olive Egg!! Can you find it?

 

[jeremy]

That's a pretty rooster SeattleLeah!

I cringed when I read your post, not because of anything to do with your rooster, but to know that determining his sex (until you got the plumage information) is not obvious at 10 weeks. I have an assortment of chicks that are 4 weeks old, and it is driving me crazy trying to figure this out. I was hoping in another week or two, it would be obvious.
My three olive eggers are definitely boys, but the wheaten and blue Marans are a real puzzle for me! Time will tell, someday.

Post some pictures, I'll let you know what the genders of your chicks are.

 

[DMRippy]

That's a pretty rooster SeattleLeah!

I cringed when I read your post, not because of anything to do with your rooster, but to know that determining his sex (until you got the plumage information) is not obvious at 10 weeks. I have an assortment of chicks that are 4 weeks old, and it is driving me crazy trying to figure this out. I was hoping in another week or two, it would be obvious.
My three olive eggers are definitely boys, but the wheaten and blue Marans are a real puzzle for me! Time will tell, someday.

I would think at 4 weeks with Marans. Marans roos show pretty early most of the time. The Wheatens, can't remember how long it takes to tell by the feathers but I would think you might have an idea at 4 weeks.

Post pictures and we will try to help you out

 

[SeattleLeah]

you are correct he does not seem to be blue to me, but a double barred male. correct double barred males will have that faded look, thats due to the powerful diluting effect of double barring..

now how does a double Barred(B/B) Blue(Bl/bl) rooster looks? it looks very very diluted, so I truly doubt the rooster posted by seattleleah is actually a blue barred male, specially a double barred male

here is how the blue barred males look and on a favorite breed of this thread(maran)


now he(the rooster posted by seattleleah) does not look like a single barred male also, Single Barred males are not as well barred and will show this on their bodies, they wont have well defined barring...

here is a single barred single male of a favorite breed in this thread(EE)

as you can see the odds are against the rooster posted by seattleleah beeing blue barred

hmmm, maybe he isnt blue. He sure looked blue as a chick

 

[DMRippy]

I finally got my first Olive Egg!! Can you find it?

Very nice collection of eggs you have there!

 

[jeremy]

I just read on another thread where someone was crating their boys at night, plus turning on a radio for them, too. Seven am came and went without a single crow...

We haven't used a radio, but that's a good idea! They usually start letting off a few crows when it gets daylight outside but they don't crow non-stop in the morning. They're usually let out with the flock around 9:30-10:00 am in the morning, they'll let a few crows out but when they've settled down they're quiet with their girls for the good part of the day. If they feel there's danger around, etc. they'll crow but we've been fortunate to have "quite" boys here in the city.

 

[SeattleLeah]

Keep him, let him fertilize your pullets and then hatch your own eggs! Odds are that you'll get a pullet eventually and you'll have the satisfaction of hatching eggs bred from your own birds. So then you'll have offspring from your cockerel.

You can probably hold on to him long enough to get some chicks sired by him. You can crate him at night and bring him indoors when he starts crowing to not disturb your neighbors. That's what we do here with our roos.

Great idea!!! I'll crate him at night and keep him until Im getting fertilized eggs then hatch a few batches before finding him a forever home. It would be so much fun to hatch some eggs from my own hens. Oooooh now I am thinking of the babies he could make with my creme legbar and my blue marans!!!!

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: I do think he looks like a dark blue. What were the possible parents? I ask because I am wanting to know if she had barred hens. If she didn't your bird can't be double barred. I do think he look like a double barred roo though. For him to be blue and double barred BOTH parents would have to be barred AND one would have to be blue.

Wish I had gotten pictures of my Blue Barred Roo before I gave him away yesterday.