The Olive-Egger thread!

[sherylreno]

I have noticed my OE pullets do not have feathers on their legs but the boys do. Has anyone else notice this as well?

 

[TheChookPatch]

Hi all, I haven't had much time to keep up with you guys but I'll just jump in with a pic of eggs from my pullet pen. They have just started to lay

 

[Dianne88]

Hi all, I haven't had much time to keep up with you guys but I'll just jump in with a pic of eggs from my pullet pen. They have just started to lay

Pretty eggs

 

[KendyF]

Hello Everyone thank you for an amazing thread. I have dark brown (chocolate egg) and Olive Egg project in the early stages. I know if I could have comprehended all of those threads I would know the answers to my questions, but there was so much information....

I bought 2 straight run Copper Black Morans and got a roo and a hen.
I bought 5 EE, CBMs mixes, no decision on sex yet. Will the pullets lay olive eggs?

Most importantly... If there are Roos in the mix batch do I know what they will pass on?

In addition I have a EE hen and Roo and a Golden Sexton Hen to throw back into the batch.

Feed back appreciated. More complex then wondering what I could get out of my buff and black orphs

Any thoughts and ideas would be appreciated.

 

[hotlipshens]

EEs are mixed breeds so you never know what you'll get. If the EE had one purebred Ameraucana parent, half of his offspring, on average, should get his one blue egg gene (which is closely linked to the pea comb). When you add to the equation that half his offspring will be male, approximately 1/4 of hisoffspring should be OE pullets whenever he's bred to a black copper maran. OTOH, breeding a purebred Ameraucana to a BCM will give you 100% OE...only half pullets, too, but all producing green eggs.

I have both buff and blue orp pullets - love the breed's disposition but prefer the blue color. Someone once posted pics of their chicks out of buff x blue crossed and they were very cute but not solid colored. I think most of the body was blue but the neck was buff. Black might dominate more than blue but I'd imagine there would still be buff leakage. Please post photos if you do the cross!

 

[Beanhead]

Here is our little olive egger, "Olive". ( Original, I know!) We bought her as a Delaware, and looked identical to the rest of the chicks, Until... about week 6. I noticed she had some wierd tufts, and white leg feathers!. I talked to our farmer, Will at Whitmore Farm, and he confirmed her to be the beautiful offspring of an Ameraucana and Copper Maran.

6 weeks


10 weeks

 

[Deb B]

I'm very eggcited that my Blue Wheaten Ameraucana over Welsummer chicks I've been incubating started hatching last night. In May I hatched 5, and had someone interested in them so I sold them. These I'm going to keep for myself

 

[hotlipshens]

One of my black ameraucana cockerals is going off to his flock of welsummers tomorrow morning...can't wait to see his chicks! Would you please post photos of your blue wheaten x wel chicks...I'd love to see them!

 

[Deb B]

One of my black ameraucana cockerals is going off to his flock of welsummers tomorrow morning...can't wait to see his chicks! Would you please post photos of your blue wheaten x wel chicks...I'd love to see them!

If you look at post 7060, you can see a pic of the first 5 I hatched. I'll post pics of these new ones as soon as they all hatch. I've got two in the brooder, one zipping and one pipped at the moment.

 

[hotlipshens]

I saw it - that's why I'm so anxious to see how the ones you keep grow One of my black amerau boys just now left to be guardian of a little boy's first mixed flock (another leaves in the morning to the wel hens)...so glad he will be spoiled! I am hoping to keep a blue and maybe a splash amerau roo but they are just 3 wks now. The splash amerau over wel should look a lot like yours!