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I have pleeeeeeenty pictures of her.
Sage a few weeks ago:
Sage when she finally became fully feathered -mostly-
Sage as a chick, a few weeks old.
Sage at just a few days old
Okay. So I cracked open the egg. First, let me show you the egg I cracked open, the next photo had flash on:
This one makes it look very green, it was in direct white light.
The carton of blue eggs from EE's and the "olive eggs" from my OE, the one I cracked is the speckled one:
Another one of her eggs, not one I cracked open, just for reference to an egg without the brown speckles on it:
So now, I cracked it. This one is a white egg, a blue egg, the top exterior half of the olive egg, and the bottom interior of the egg side by side:
The one next to the white egg as slightly wet, I had washed the egg I cracked and did not dry that one very well:
Close up next to the blue egg:
Close up next to the white egg:
Of course, the pictures are lying-- I did not use flash on the cracked eggs pics, and the lighting was somewhat poor. However, in real life, it did look somewhat like the blue egg, the interior of the olive egg, just a bit diluted.
I think I got me an Olive EggerHopefully her color gets better over time. Her first egg (the one all the way on left in the egg carton picture) was her first egg, and the speckled egg, the one I cracked, seems much more vivid and green.
So, yeah, I think I got me an OE. LEt me know what you guys think!![]()
It is very hard to get true colors to show up in pictures. But the 2 single pics up at the top you posted with the speckles look olive ish a little more brown than green but still olive. Did you peel the membrane out of the inside of the egg? If the inside has a blue ish tint I think you are good to go and have yourself an OE. To get a better Olive color you may want to pair her with an Ameraucana rooster so her chicks will have a greener olive tone.
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