The Olive-Egger thread!

[Infinity]

No, I don't know what laid any of those eggs. I just found the picture on the internet. I don't have the room to try and make my own crosses. Genetics are tricky!

 

[Infinity]

Those are gorgeous!  In my book, the second row of eggs are olive as well as the two on the bottom right.  Eventually I hope to have all the colors you have.

Sadly, not mine.....I'm just a "wanna be" with these colors!

 

[ochochicas]

There should be a "wanna-be olive egg" thread. There are a lot of us out there!

I have one OE pullet. She should be laying by now, but seems to be taking her sweet time. She hatched in February.

It is good to have a dream!

 

[vehve]

Here are what I call olive eggs.

Whoa, those are some beautiful colors.

 

[Euarto Gullible]

Thought I'd share pics of my Olive Egger project birds I'm keeping for breeding next year. What a motley crew! New OE layer, bottom left compared to 2 EE (left), 1 Ameraucana (center), and 1 OE (right) with brown egg for comparison.




Ethan, one of the Olive Egger roosters I'm keeping for next year.



Some of the pullets and hens.




















I got some nice BBS Ameraucanas to use for next year.



I'm not as interested in pure F1 Marans/Ameraucana olive eggs as I am the more elusive shades of green from breeding F1s, F2s, etc. Lots of unpredictability. Lots of fun!

 

[Olive Oil]

Sadly, not mine.....I'm just a "wanna be" with these colors!

Me too! It will happen someday!

 

[aart]

My almost dark brown, almost blue and almost olive eggs. ;-)
ETA......Welsummer...............EE......................AOE.

 

[bekahubbell]

Wow! Beautiful colors! I hope my OE gives me anything close to that color! What did your other eggs come from?

 

[Olive Oil]

I was banding my flock today and took lots of pictures! Thought I would share some. I've yet to see eggs from any of these girls, but hope to soon!

I just found out that Pumpkin (my young "Ameracauna" roo is alas an Easter Egger as someone
had recently suggested. Green on the legs really coming in.

So I'm thinking I should not cross him to try and get more OE's since I really don't know what egg color gene he will add to my mix. I already have a gorgeous Birchen Marans roo, but thought I would keep my Ameracauna roo as well so I had more options as far as crossing. Thoughts?

Birchen Marans Pullet

Birchen Marans Pullet (left)

Birchen Marans Roo

Birchen Marans Roo

Birchen Marans Roo

The mix relaxing. Exhausted from an hour of banding!

Olive Oil! My first Olive-Egger pullet

Stay Puff. OE pullet with the Ameracauna "cheeks"

OE pullet (guess!) so far un-named

Olive Oil (right) and black OE pullet with the cheeks (left)

OE Roo. I think he will be a beauty when he grows up!

OE Roo

OE Roo

Rosy OE pullet (left) young Birchen Marans pullet (right)

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

Hmmm...first egg today from what I was told was a crested cream legbar (it was an extra in some Rhodebar shipped eggs). She looks like a CCL and the egg she came from was the most gorgeous true blue I've seen. Her egg however is green and I couldn't tell it from the Isbar eggs if I didn't know better. She is in a completely different pen from the Isbars and in with nothing but Marans so I know the green egg is hers.

So...her mama must have been in with a brown egg type cock/erel. My plan was to put her in with the Marans cock for sexlinked olive eggers, but now I'm wondering if that will work for me. Am I likely to get only 50% olive layers out of this cross?