The Olive-Egger thread!

[gmomfarms]

Here is a better picture of my Olive Egger. Guesses on her heritage?

 

[lizanne]

My first babies are 8 weeks.
Any idea a to the sex, I am so confused?






Any help would be greatly appreciated. Parents are BCM & LA

It's kinda hard to see, but I would say #1 is a roo. With black it's hard because you don't have any coloring to help.

 

[Chickensmart.com]

Does anyone have an olive egger pullet for sale that they would be willing to ship? Preferably somebody close to WV. Thanks!

 

[ronott1]

My first babies are 8 weeks.
Any idea a to the sex, I am so confused?






Any help would be greatly appreciated. Parents are BCM & LA

I would say, Rooster, pullet, pullet, rooster.

The The second Pullet is iffy though....

 

[buckabucka]

Here is a better picture of my Olive Egger. Guesses on her heritage?

I have a Welsummer x EE that looks quite a bit like that.

 

[Sueg4332]

I have 3 barred (cuckoo/amerucana) hens. They have fluffy creeks and very pretty. Two lay olive eggs one lays a brown egg. Which way would you breed them. Back to a golden cuckoo? Or back to Spash amerucana.
I want to get a fluffy creeked rooster. So far no luck.
The brown layer is in with the amerucanas.
I find a lot of the eggs are not fertile. Both pens have 2 roosters in them.
Amerucana probaby 12 hens
Cuckoos only 6.
What colors chicks and eggs should I expect?
You all take such beautiful pictures. mine always look lighter than they are!!!!!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I have 3 barred (cuckoo/amerucana) hens. They have fluffy creeks and very pretty. Two lay olive eggs one lays a brown egg. Which way would you breed them. Back to a golden cuckoo? Or back to Spash amerucana.
I want to get a fluffy creeked rooster. So far no luck.
The brown layer is in with the amerucanas.
I find a lot of the eggs are not fertile. Both pens have 2 roosters in them.
Amerucana probaby 12 hens
Cuckoos only 6.
What colors chicks and eggs should I expect?
You all take such beautiful pictures. mine always look lighter than they are!!!!!

I would breed the olive eggers to the golden cuckoo. your brown laying hen back to the ameraucana and hope for more olive eggers. if you can only do 1 I would use the olive eggers with the marans and not hatch the brown ones

 

[acemario]

ok... i've looked through this thread but can't quite find my answer. I hatched an olive egger this year (FBCM crossed with a Wheaten Ameracauna) and it turned out to be a roo. In my flock, I have a wheaten ameracauna hen, a barnyard mix hen, and a FBCM hen. If I keep the Olive Egger and hatch the eggs I get, what color will the eggs most likely be?

 

[Peach2u]

ok... i've looked through this thread but can't quite find my answer. I hatched an olive egger this year (FBCM crossed with a Wheaten Ameracauna) and it turned out to be a roo. In my flock, I have a wheaten ameracauna hen, a barnyard mix hen, and a FBCM hen. If I keep the Olive Egger and hatch the eggs I get, what color will the eggs most likely be?

The OE roo carries both blue and chocolate genes. So if you put him with a blue egg laying hen the off spring will lay some shade of green egg. Maybe green with spots if your lucky. OE roo over brown egg layer will make the offspring lay a brown egg darker than the mom's but lighter than the BCM. If you put the OE over a OE hen you will get 50% green and %50 brown layers. Hope that helps.

 

[PalmHen]

I will add on to this just a bit... I have F-2s that are the product of my F-1s bred back to Marans for a darker egg color, not just F-1 x F-1. It's still a step away from the first generation, just in a slightly different direction.

So....! I have f1s. Now I need to find an f2 rooster to breed back to? THEN I breed back to a Maran's?