The Olive-Egger thread!

[JFreeman]

I think someone was playing an April Fool's trick on you.

LOL I think you're right. I caught an opossum today. I think it was the culprit that helped themselves to a chick dinner.

 

[Sill]

LOL I think you're right. I caught an opossum today. I think it was the culprit that helped themselves to a chick dinner.

So glad we don't have that particular critter to deal with here. Didn't know possums ate meat.

 

[chickenlver2013]

My black Polish.  

That's hilarious!! I could not figure out what that was. Lol!

 

[kittykorat]

Just because I can't stop taking chick pictures! lol

pretty bird, is she legbarXmarans?

 

[Jayzandra]

So glad I found this thread. I hatched out 9 eggs on the 19th. Father is an "Ameracauna" (feed store variety) and moms are Cuckoo Marans, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Silver Grey Dorking a,d another feed store "Ameracauna" I'm hoping to get a few Olive Eggers out of the marans and wyandotte. Pics to come later as I have to go to work.

 

[Jayzandra]

I got my "Ameracuana" labeled EE as a day old chick last spring. What are the chances he came from a blue egg? The bottom of his feet are white, not sure if that matters.





This is our only grown EE hen., Pickle.


She lays this beautiful blue egg.


We hatched eggs from this roo over a Cuckoo Marans and a Silver Laced Wyandotte.
Here's some of the babies.







The lighting is a little off, but the two at the top left are white eggs from a SGD, the two on the left are blue from Pickle. The 3 darker ones are the CM and the 4 lighter brown are the SLW. One Dorking and one Marans didn't hatch.

 

[Jayzandra]

I don't really know much about the genetics, but all the wyandotte babies have the rose comb. I think maybe the marans is a pea comb, but I can't tell yet.

 

[Blarneyeggs]

I got my "Ameracuana" labeled EE as a day old chick last spring. What are the chances he came from a blue egg? The bottom of his feet are white, not sure if that matters.





This is our only grown EE hen., Pickle.


She lays this beautiful blue egg.


We hatched eggs from this roo over a Cuckoo Marans and a Silver Laced Wyandotte.
Here's some of the babies.







The lighting is a little off, but the two at the top left are white eggs from a SGD, the two on the left are blue from Pickle. The 3 darker ones are the CM and the 4 lighter brown are the SLW. One Dorking and one Marans didn't hatch.

Sorry! I just don't know enough to be able to answer your questions, but I sure am enjoying your pics! and love your boy's beard, it's perfect, almost as if you've trimmed it. Hopefully some knowledgable person will pipe in.

 

[ladyrsanti]

Hey, I'm new to the olive egger world. We just hatched eight from a wheaten marans roo and two EE hens (one blue egg layer and one green egg layer). No idea what we've wound up with but I thought I'd drop a photo of them all since I was making the rounds. I can't wait to see how they feather out and the color of their eggs.


Here are the two hens (molting) and dad as a cockerel:

 

[nicalandia]

Hey, I'm new to the olive egger world. We just hatched eight from a wheaten marans roo and two EE hens (one blue egg layer and one green egg layer). No idea what we've wound up with but I thought I'd drop a photo of them all since I was making the rounds. I can't wait to see how they feather out and the color of their eggs.


Here are the two hens (molting) and dad as a cockerel:

The pullets from the Salmon breasted EE(the one on the right) will look almost like her, with some traits of wheaten pullets showing but not alot, they may actually show some salmon breast too, now as for the cockerels they will look as father but with a pea comb(if the EE was pure for the pea comb gene)

now the Hen on the left looks like a blue columbian restricted but she could only be carrying one columbian gene, in any case some pullets from may look just like her and some of the males from her may look like Blue tailed Reds or black tailed red, but I cant really say as that hen on the right I cant see her well, do you have another pic to see? that way I could give you a better answer