The Olive-Egger thread!

[chicken pickin]

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 Egger Hopefully 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.

 

[buckabucka]

I really like the assortment of colors you get when crossing to get olive eggers. A couple of my hens lay a true olive, but others lay green, gray, or weird shades that are not quite brown, but aren't very green either. Perhaps you have an egg that falls into the latter category, but your latest photos make it look less brown and more green. I love the speckles!

 

[Manningjw]

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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.

The only thing with crossing back with crossing back to an Ameraucana is it will dilute the brown color making it more minty green rather than Olive. If she has a hatch-mate or an EE roo that came from a green egg it could produce more blue pigment in the shell (two dominant blue genes) without diluting the brown overlay as much.

Either way, isn't it exciting to cross breed and experiment with genetics? Sooo much fun, only issue i have is having to wait 5-6 months to see what kind of eggs you get!

 

[chicken pickin]

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The only thing with crossing back with crossing back to an Ameraucana is it will dilute the brown color making it more minty green rather than Olive. If she has a hatch-mate or an EE roo that came from a green egg it could produce more blue pigment in the shell (two dominant blue genes) without diluting the brown overlay as much.

Either way, isn't it exciting to cross breed and experiment with genetics? Sooo much fun, only issue i have is having to wait 5-6 months to see what kind of eggs you get!

You are right. Crossing back to another Olive Egger would be a good option. But if the hatch mate lays the same brownish egg Im not sure the egg will improve. If they want OE chicks from that pullet they may have to test mate a little.

44wolves do you plan to mate her to improve the egg color?

 

[44Wolves]

Nope, she was one of only 2 hatch mates, and other one is deceased, would have laid a brown egg anyways as she/he did not have the pea comb.

And I also do not plan on breeding her. No rooster, no space for more, and my parents would not permit a rooster either way, so she is forever alone cx

 

[mstricer]

I just set 5 wheaten AM eggs. Father could either be a Wheaten Marans or a splashed Silkied Feathered AM,

 

[mstricer]

Didn't finish thought. If the father is the splash I will take pullets back to him then those chicks to the wheaten Marans for olive eggers

 

[michaelf]

My olive egger started laying again! Putting it into the incubator .

 

[bantambury]

My olive egger started laying again! Putting it into the incubator .

gorgeous!

what does your hen look like!?!?!?!??!?!?!?

7 of my OE eggs im incubating in the NYD hatch a long....but they aint' this green!!!!!


GORGEOUSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

 

[michaelf]

Here is my olive egger. She is a small girl. But has really big eggs . The roo I have in there is a BCM . Hopefully I will have a f2 and a shade darker olive .