these eggs may just have a more distinctive chocolate gene making the eggs rather brown. my OE lays very light green eggs, and 7 of them im hatching for NYD......my roos are a jap bantam and a silkie!!! hahahahaOkay, so this week my Olive Egger has started laying her eggs. Very consistent, only missed one day out of the entire week. But, the problem is.... they are not so Olive. I had looked at pictures online and was expecting this:
but instead I am getting something like this: (The brownish ones in the picture)
I have been calling them olive so far, since it is my favorite color, but really, it isn't all too Olive. She was an Ameraucana Hen and ?BCM? or some other Marans cross. She has the pea comb so there was supposed to be a 97% chance of the olive egg. Her sister/brother had the straight comb, and had a 97% chance of laying brown. However, he/she died so I will never know, but it was definately a rooster anyways....
But my question- is it safe to call those eggs in the second picture, the brownish ones, olive, or did my OE turn out to be an 'Brown Egger'?
here is the olive egger egg color chart...
here are my olive egger eggs: ( the green ones in the brooder)
as you see, my egger's eggs are not that olivy either....as long as they are not americuana green, and follow one color in the three charts I gave, she is an OE.
my OE is a mix...very different....no idea what she could be a mix of though! she is bantam sized, but lays standard sized eggs!!!! hahahahhaha
hope this helps!
~bantambury