The Olive-Egger thread!

[ronott1]

oh thats great news! I thought I read that the roo was dominant so thought that meant they would lay a light brown egg

It is good news! It does not matter where the egg shell color comes from as long as a blue gene is passed on to the hen.

 

[quailtrail]

  It is good news! It does not matter where the egg shell color comes from as long as a blue gene is passed on to the hen.

so excited! !!! My hen lays a beautiful Olive eggs. So happy I had this backwards!!!

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

I'm a little leery of hatcheries saying they have Ameraucanas/Araucanas, when they are really Easter Eggers.....is Meyer better at this than other hatcheries.

I can not vouch for them, just went to look as I have read good & bad things about them. Just like I have read good & bad about other hatcheries, feed stores, smaller farms and private breeders. Not to mention good & bad about different breeds.The one thing I did notice you can place small orders with them. I think being able to buy from a smaller source that is closer to you that you feel supplies good birds is probably preferable, but not always doable. Just saying they seem to be crossing the breeds to produce the hybrid OE (after all there is a market) based on their description you either going to get Cream Legbar X Maran or Ameruacana X Maran chicks with egg colour ranging from pale green to olive green. Can't say one way or the other on quality. They do seem to be making an effort to distinguish between EEs and Ameruacana stock they sell, it is posable they might actually be making an effort to sell 'pure bred' Blue & Wheaton Ameruacanas versus just EEs mislabeled, they do sell EEs too.

My Ameruacana from way back was from a hatchery via a feed store order, she looked like an Ameruacana to me based on SOP I have read since, carried the blue gene but was on the pale greenish side, laid well. Can't remember which hatchery she was ordered from, but that was like ages ago, allot can change in quality control of a hatchery or even breed selection.

I was just like surprised to see them marketing OE (maybe they read BYC) & distinguishing EE from Am, so just passing it along.

 

[ournwsimplelife]

I have a wellie/OE that does the same thing, hers is brown but has a pink (I don't know the word for it, hue maybe) color. Hers is also dull in appearance not shiny like the others. Muted pinkish brown? It adds variety to the basket so I like it!

my Australorp lays the same type of egg: brown with a matte bloom that makes it look rose colored. The bloom is very matte and almost white or pink over the brown. interesting to think of the genetics that makes that happen. I think it's a cool egg in the basket.

 

[simon7mm]

I have a Black Ameracauna hen and a Barnevelder Rooster, wondering if it is possible to predict egg color of the off spring? Would it be possible to get Olive Eggs? I was thinking the Rooster had to be from a blue egg - I am very new to this!

Thanks in advance.

 

[ronott1]

I have a Black Ameracauna hen and a Barnevelder Rooster, wondering if it is possible to predict egg color of the off spring? Would it be possible to get Olive Eggs? I was thinking the Rooster had to be from a blue egg - I am very new to this!

Thanks in advance.

The eggs will mostly be green and likely olive colored.

If the EE has two blue genes then all of the egg shells will be green. There are a lot of brown coating genes that will come from the Rooster so if the egg shell genes are both white, then those Pullets\hens will lay brown eggs.

 

[simon7mm]

Thanks for the information! The breeder I got the ameracauna from sold me 2 barnevelder cockeral that were supposed to be cream legbar. So I am just hoping the ameracauna is pure bred. Sure looks that way at 9 weeks.

 

[rushmoor3]

I have an Easter Egger and Americauna hens. I wonder what a Welsummer roo over them would do? I'm not set up to hatch eggs....I don't even own an incubator, but I am looking into it....going to take that next step.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

here are a few of mine

 

[JFreeman]

here are a few of mine

What breed is the white on in the top right corner?