The Olive-Egger thread!

[bantambury]

I opened up one of my OE pullet eggs this morn to check for fertility, it is fertile YAY. I was also excited to see the blue-green inner egg

so to see if an egg is fertile....the inside of the egg must be a blue green?

 

[bantambury]

so to see if an egg is fertile....the inside of the egg must be a blue green?

wait!!! I get it!!! you have to see a bullseye!!

 

[chicken pickin]

so to see if an egg is fertile....the inside of the egg must be a blue green?

No.

If you look at the second pic of the yolk it shows the bullseye(small white ring) that shows that it is fertile.

 

[chicken pickin]

wait!!! I get it!!! you have to see a bullseye!!

LOL Yes!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

We've gotten ourselves an olive egger!!!

Ed just began laying this weekend on the 29th....she has been laying ever since!!!

Ed is a mixed breed, we think of an easter egger and a brown egg layer......



I JUST HAVE ONE QUESTION...
are most olive eggers mixed breeds>

here is ed and her eggs!

I like that color

 

[seventreesfarm]

Olive eggers are usually a cross between a blue (or green) egg layer and a dark brown egg layer. One makes the shell color and the other adds a layer of pigment. So far no one has figured out how to make a self-replicating olive-egger. At least not that they are sharing. So most folks do first generation crosses, and even some second or third generation olivers need to be crossed back to keep the right egg color genes flowing. If someone could figure out where the brown paint gene comes from, that would be helpful

There is tons of good breeding and genetic info in this thread, but you have to skim through a lot.

 

[bantambury]

I like that color

thank you! I love it too!

 

[bantambury]

Olive eggers are usually a cross between a blue (or green) egg layer and a dark brown egg layer. One makes the shell color and the other adds a layer of pigment. So far no one has figured out how to make a self-replicating olive-egger. At least not that they are sharing. So most folks do first generation crosses, and even some second or third generation olivers need to be crossed back to keep the right egg color genes flowing. If someone could figure out where the brown paint gene comes from, that would be helpful

There is tons of good breeding and genetic info in this thread, but you have to skim through a lot.

so is my bird an olive egger??? or is the solid olive egger bird not a mixed breed?

 

[chicken pickin]

so is my bird an olive egger??? or is the solid olive egger bird not a mixed breed?

She is either an EE or an OE. Depending on what she was crossed with. She is a very pretty chicken I wouldn't have guess she would be laying those pretty green eggs though by looking at her lol.

Im not sure I understand what you meant by "or is the solid olive egger bird not a mixed breed?". Olive Eggers a mixed breeds as are Easter Eggers. Like seventreesfarm mentioned, all first generation Olive Eggers are a cross of a dark brown egg layer with a blue or green egg layer. Second generation are the Olive Egger crossed back to the dark egg layer to get a darker richer egg color, or the Olive Egger crossed back with the blue/green egg layer to inhance the greenish olive hue, and so on. Olive Eggers are lovely "mutts", they are great chickens and lay beautiful eggs. They are becoming quite popular.

 

[bantambury]

Checked an egg today for fertility....

yayy!!!

Now we may do the NYD hatch-a-thon....
I am wondering what her young would look like...he have no OE roos!!!

Here are our roos we have:

jap bantam

silkie

Here is ed:

It would be so cool to see her chicks!!!