The Olive-Egger thread!

[Peach2u]

I used a splash maran roo over my girls one year. All the offspring came out blue ,black and splash! He was such a loving father and the hens loved him. However, he hated everything else. He would go out of his way to attack us. He was huge. You could her him running up behind you with his heavy feet. If you did not turn around and face him, he would spur up your back and peck you in the head. I carried around a stick or tennis racket if I went into the yard. He ran up my 4 year old daughter he was gone that night. I friend took him. He was a good looking bird and good yard bird, but man what a mean one. friend likes him and has had him for 3 years now. I have one of his gransons a blue OE. He is a sweet bird. Too many roosters in the world to put up with a mean one.

Lamar the mean rooster and his chicks from2011

These where my first gen OE F1's

This season using an F2 roo over Americanas, 1 bcm and 1 welsummer.
I ended up with 25 chicks so far and only 3 blue and 1 black. The rest chipmunk.
That F2 roo and some F3,2 &1 OE & Americana hens scattered the gene pool this year.
But it looks like most will have fluffy cheeks/beards. Roo has a huge beard.

 

[Bethel3330]

I'm subscribing to this thread because, instead of getting a barred rock cockeral like i had planned for our first flock, I brought home this guy

and all brown egg layers ;-)
He was sold as an Ameracauna, or Americana aka EE. I'm not sure which they meant but he's pretty cool whatever his heritage. Will be neat to see what I get down the line.
Ps the small one in the background is a 5 week old silver laced Wyandotte. She's already tricked some, not an EE though

 

[carriebain]

I found a surprise olive egg today! I have been planning to "make" some olive eggers next summer (they have been on my wish list) an I came home to this egg In the nesting box!

 

[Peach2u]

I'm subscribing to this thread because, instead of getting a barred rock cockeral like i had planned for our first flock, I brought home this guy
and all brown egg layers ;-)
He was sold as an Ameracauna, or Americana aka EE. I'm not sure which they meant but he's pretty cool whatever his heritage. Will be neat to see what I get down the line.
Ps the small one in the background is a 5 week old silver laced Wyandotte. She's already tricked some, not an EE though

He's hansome! Are his ears blue? It's hard to tell from pix. Blue ears and pea combs are linked to blue egg gene. I have a hen who has a pea comb morphed with white ears and lays brown eggs. Someone forgot to tell her she was suppose to lay green eggs

 

[Peach2u]

I found a surprise olive egg today! I have been planning to "make" some olive eggers next summer (they have been on my wish list) an I came home to this egg In the nesting box!

congrats

 

[Bethel3330]

He's hansome! Are his ears blue? It's hard to tell from pix. Blue ears and pea combs are linked to blue egg gene. I have a hen who has a pea comb morphed with white ears and lays brown eggs. Someone forgot to tell her she was suppose to lay green eggs 

lol that's funny!
Thank you! Do you mean his muffs? They're black but he does have the pea comb. I need to study up on some of these genes. It's so interesting. Thanks for that tip.

 

[ronott1]

lol that's funny!
Thank you! Do you mean his muffs? They're black but he does have the pea comb. I need to study up on some of these genes. It's so interesting. Thanks for that tip.

The Blue egg shell gene is not linked--They are closely associated with pea combs. Cream Legbars have blue egg shells with Straight combed chickens.

Added: With EEs, you have something like a 5 to 10% chance of a straight comb with the Blue egg shell gene.

 

[michaelf]

Has anyone ever crossed an amerucauna and creme legbar? Will it enhance blue? I think I remember someone mention it somewhere before.

 

[ronott1]

Has anyone ever crossed an amerucauna and creme legbar? Will it enhance blue? I think I remember someone mention it somewhere before.

@nicalandia was posting about that, I think on the Creme Legbar Hybrid thread. The blue Gene is different between the two breads so it would make super blue egg layers.

I am thinking about crossing my Arakansas Blues(Leghorn and Aracauna crossed) with CLs to see what happens.

 

[Deb B]

Hi all, I just hatched my first 5 OEs. They are a cross between my Blue Wheaten Ameraucana roo and a Welsummer Hen. They all hatched out with a bit of a brown spont on top of their heads and varying amounts of "eyeliner". I'm wondering if anyone has ever done this cross and whether darker spots and more eyeliner might imply pullets the way it does in Welsummers.

Here's a pic of the chicks