The Olive-Egger thread!

[Ihilani Coffee]

Crele Pene X Cream Legbar are auto sexing at hatch.

Waiting for the CCL pullet to start laying for just that reason! Well, sexlinked anyhow on the chicks.

 

[JFreeman]

Hey fellow OE peeps. I took some pictures of my OEs (and a couple of EEs) today and wanted to show them off.
I bought two BCMs, and it looks like I have two OE cockerels. I'm keeping once, and I suppose I'll keep him instead of getting a BCM cockerel... And I'm planning on getting rid of the other. I don't want too many cockerels, so I have to pick and choose. The one I want to keep is the Black Copper (with the actual copper coloring).
This boy (pretty sure he's a boy) will be sold.

This is the boy I wanto to keep.

This is one of my EE girls. I hatched her out from some eggs I bought over Ebay. They were advertised as pure Ameraucanas, but I found out as soon as I received them, they were not so... She's very pretty, and I plan to keep her. She's 16 weeks old, and I'm counting down the days to see her first egg.

Behind Angel is my newer OE pullet I bought from the same locals who sold me the "BCMs."

Here's a close-up of the blue OE.


I also have a splash maran x EE. I don't have any recent pictures of her right now, but I'll see about getting more.

I hope all is well! And keep cool in the heat.

 

[spunkychickenmomma]

Wanted to post a pic (not the best) of my F1 OE chick pattern I have been getting from my black Tailed Buff marans roo over my cream legbar hens. They are some of the friendliest chicks I have ever raised. Soon I will be crossing my blue Isbar roo to my black Tailed Buff marans hens. Can't wait to see that color pattern!

 

[Heatherschix]

F3 OE...even has olive eyes.

 

[Heatherschix]

Here's a close-up of the blue OE.


I LOVE her! She is beautiful!

 

[sayga]

This is Oliver, my 12 week(ish) old Olive Egger rooster. If he was a she, he was supposed to lay olive eggs. Since he's not a she, I wonder what genes for eggs he carries. He is a handsome boy, and I really enjoy him.

 

[Sill]

I knew one of my OE pullets was starting to lay when I found a small shell-less egg on the coop floor two days ago. This morning I found a tinted white egg on the coop floor. Here it is next to one of my sex-link's brown eggs.



I think this was from my F5 OE over white leghorn pullet. I was hoping for more of a mint green or pale blue but it's more of a cream color, looking white until you put it up against something white like this bowl. This egg was the same color inside. It goes to show you it's a crap shoot what you're going to get especially with several generations of crosses! My other OE pullets are F5 OE over barred rocks and F5 OE over BCMs and I imagine they must lay something in the brown to green range since their moms lay brown to dark brown eggs.

I'm hoping this pullet starts laying in the nest boxes!

 

[Manningjw]

Hello everyone - I have a bit of a genetics question from one of my olive egger projects involving an interesting feather pattern in one of my little chicks.

Is this mottling feather pattern? If not any ideas what feather pattern/genetics are causing it? He appears different than any other chick I have ever hatched from this kind of cross. He is 5-6 weeks old in this photo. I also noticed his tail feathers are nearly non-existent compared to the 7 other chicks hatched with him. I suspect his 'grandmother' of carrying one copy of recessive mottling because she has occasional white flecks on her feathers and they change locations with molts.

He is the result of this Rooster with the Red Star hen pictured:



I wouldn't have expecting a red star of carring mottling, but maybe the Rhode Island Whites they use in the cross have it hidden within their white?

 

[maryhysong]

This is Oliver, my 12 week(ish) old Olive Egger rooster. If he was a she, he was supposed to lay olive eggs. Since he's not a she, I wonder what genes for eggs he carries. He is a handsome boy, and I really enjoy him.

If bred from Ameraucana/EE lines I would say it doesn't carry the blue egg gene since it has a single comb. Shoot I have one that has a modified pea comb (right size and shape but no peas) and she lays about a #3 brown on the Marans scale. I've been having a devil of a time getting olive eggs. Although this year I now have true, purebred Ameraucanas that I will be crossing with my EE and Marans for more shades of blue and green.

 

[sayga]

If bred from Ameraucana/EE lines I would say it doesn't carry the blue egg gene since it has a single comb. Shoot I have one that has a modified pea comb (right size and shape but no peas) and she lays about a #3 brown on the Marans scale. I've been having a devil of a time getting olive eggs. Although this year I now have true, purebred Ameraucanas that I will be crossing with my EE and Marans for more shades of blue and green.

Yeah, I don't know what he was bred for. My sister bought fertilized eggs that were simply supposed to hatch olive eggers. We don't know the parentage. I love that he is rumpless though. It makes me sad I can't keep him (though he hasn't shown interest in crowing yet, so I can keep him till he does). He's a pretty boy and I've never had a rumpless bird before. I think I'll let him breed with my EE and my Rhode Island Reds and just see what happens. Maybe some babies will grow up to be OEs and maybe they won't. It'll be my first breeding experiment, so I look forward to the experience, even if I get funny looking brown-egg laying mutts. They'll still be loved anyway.