The Olive-Egger thread!

[chicken pickin]

Hi all, I've finally found a thread where I can post pics of my olive eggers! Here are a few pics of eggs from my birds

What did you use to make your cross?

Your eggs are the most gorgeous shade of dark olive!

 

[TheChookPatch]

Thank you, I'm most pleased this season. I used multiple generations of Marans x Ara in lots of different combinations. Selecting for egg colour and feathering along the way. I'm getting fairly consistent feathering in Black copper and Wheaten who lay these coloured egg which I'm also happy with.
I look forward to seeing what the pene x's lay hangtown farms. You guys have got a lot darker pigment to play with over there

 

[nicalandia]

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so you did cross back to Maran to obtain darker eggs right? and these backcrosses look like marans but with pea combs right?

 

[TammyTX]

I'm interested in this because I have chicks resulting from a cross between a full black copper marans hen and a welsummer/EE cross roo. Two of the 9 wk old chicks look to be pullets with pea combs and I might have a third month old pullet with a pea comb and light leg feathering. The pullets all seem to have the copper coloring except for one looks like a solid black....at least for now.

If I could get those gorgeous dark olive eggs like you have, I would be soooo happy!!

 

[wondertwinpower]

As part of a surprise chick special I purchased from PapaBrooder last year, I received 4 autosexing oliver egger project chicks, 2 male and 2 female. They are F1, and I'm sure PapaBrooder is using Rhodebars from Greenfire Farms, and based on the other breeds he's raising, I'm guessing he's using Crested Cream Legbars for the other parent. Would that work to keep the auto-sexing traits?

Anyway, the chicks I got from him are grown and one pullet lays a beautiful light green egg, and the other lays a speckled brown egg with no hint of blue or green. They all 4 look exactly like Rhodebars in my opinion.

I want to try breeding them, and I would prefer to have chickens that will only produce green eggs. Should I remove the brown-egg-laying pullet from breeding, or is it possible that one or both of my males can determine the color of the next generation's eggs?

THANKS!!!

 

[pickledchicken]

Has anyone tried a CLB and Wellsummer cross for an olive egger ?

 

[TheChookPatch]

Mine come from a length of crosses of all different combinations between Araucana and Marans. We only have French Wheaten Marans over here in Australia, all our other colours like black copper etc have been created here. I've been selecting for feathering too, here are some of my birds...









Sorry some are sideways

 

[TammyTX]

Very pretty!! I particularly like the light blue and the blue with red.

Do you think I'll get similar results with the pea comb Black Copper mixes? Egg color, I mean.

 

[fourpawsfarm]

Has anyone done a Cream Legbar cross with a Bielefelder to make an Olive Egger?

 

[Jayzandra]

I want to try that. But first I need a Welsummer and a Cream Legbar. LOL.

Has anyone tried a CLB and Wellsummer cross for an olive egger ?