The Olive-Egger thread!

[Cynthia12]

I just ordered a few Olive Egger chicks, and I was wondering if anyone would mind posting a few pictures of their Olive Eggers as chicks? I understand they don't look all alike, but I ordered them with a few other breeds and hope to be able to identify them from the rest. Thanks!

I have a blue girl..here she is..and her egg.

 

[Lark Rise]

I have a blue girl..here she is..and her egg.

 

[dfdesigns]

I just ordered a few Olive Egger chicks, and I was wondering if anyone would mind posting a few pictures of their Olive Eggers as chicks? I understand they don't look all alike, but I ordered them with a few other breeds and hope to be able to identify them from the rest. Thanks!

I have a blue girl..here she is..and her egg.

Gorgeous girl, and a beautiful egg!

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

@nicalandia

well the blue egg shell gene found on Ameraucana, Araucana, and EE, blue eggers from that university is linked to the P comb.........BUT the blue egg shell gene found on Cream Lebars crossed over(during meiosis) to the p+ gene(single comb) the chance of this recombination is 4 to 5%

Forgive my interruption to ask a question.
I have a single comb hen (a cross-over from a project) that lays a blue egg. Are the %'s the same with her, 'crossed back' to another single comb brown-egger breed?
(your stalker here, caught this post earlier and just remembered to ask)
Thanks!
edited to add:
Thanks again : ) You, and the other folks with genuine 'knowledge of genetics', are a great (and under-appreciated) resource.
I realized you answered a Q I asked on another thread and was too 'overwhelmed' to answer. I appreciated the answer, and was going to try to understand the info before I responded --- and still haven't : (

 

[Cynthia12]

Thanks guys, her name is Echo, because, she talks a lot.

 

[PalmHen]

Drum roll . . . . . . . . . .



Its a Boy!!! My BF woke me up at 5 am this morning saying he heard a weird noise outside, kind of like a woman screaming. I hopped out of bed and ran barefoot to the coop. Well sure enough these were Bubba's first crowing attempts. I sure hope he gets to his rooster business soon so I can hatch some of his babies before I have to find him a new home.

Thanks for all the input everyone! 20 weeks and we finally have our answer

 

[PalmHen]

What is this little guy? Love the barring and the fluff!

 

[nicalandia]

Is then then a true statement?
It is much easier to work on caring the blue gene from the Amereucana, Araucana and EE blue eggers verses the Cream Legbar line because the first group (A,A&EE) have the tell tell sign of the linked pea comb telling you they have carried the blue gene to that bird in the next generation.

Do Cream Legbars have a tell tell sign of their own?

No, because there is no difference between the single comb they carry to other single combs... you can only find if the pullet inherited the blue egg shell if she lays colored(blue/green/Olive) eggs and that takes so much time its not worth it...at least to me, to have to keep like 10 pullets to see which one carry the blue egg shell, its nice to have 90+% chance of seeing this since hatch

 

[nicalandia]

@nicalandia
Forgive my interruption to ask a question.
I have a single comb hen (a cross-over from a project) that lays a blue egg. Are the %'s the same with her, 'crossed back' to another single comb brown-egger breed?
(your stalker here, caught this post earlier and just remembered to ask)
Thanks!
edited to add:
Thanks again : ) You, and the other folks with genuine 'knowledge of genetics', are a great (and under-appreciated) resource.
I realized you answered a Q I asked on another thread and was too 'overwhelmed' to answer. I appreciated the answer, and was going to try to understand the info before I responded --- and still haven't : (

once the blue egg shell gene crosses over(from the Pea comb to the Single comb) its again very closely linked to that gene, so if it will be attatched to that gene and since there is not way to tell what single comb gene was inherited by a bird, your guess would good as mine as to where that gene was inherited. meaning you will have to wait till the pullets hatch again to see if it inherited or no...

 

[mike184]

I hatched some OE's last year from and Easter Egger hen and a BCM rooster. Only had 2 hens with pea combs. One finally laid her first egg today. Here it is next to an EE egg.