The Olive-Egger thread!

[abserbean]

I love seeing everyone's first olive eggs! My girl is only 18 weeks, and her face needs to pink up some more. Hopefully in the next month she will start laying, and hopefully they will be olive!

 

[Peep_Show]

Question: I had an egg hatch, F2 OE (FBC Marans x [FBC Marans x CCL]), dark chick, leg feathering....the only egg in my hatch that wasn't sex-linked.

Is this genetic combo feather sexable? Or do I have to wait until "Pat" either crows or lays?

 

[ronott1]

Question: I had an egg hatch, F2 OE (FBC Marans x [FBC Marans x CCL]), dark chick, leg feathering....the only egg in my hatch that wasn't sex-linked.

Is this genetic combo feather sexable? Or do I have to wait until "Pat" either crows or lays?

They are not really f2, they are a back cross so would be either P1 pr BC1(back cross to parent 1) since they are crossed back to a parent. F2 would be if you bread the F1 chickens to each other.

You should get some small amount of sex linking from the barring gene. It depends on parent with the barring.

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

I have 13 hatching eggs ready to ship...buyer backed out. There are 8 that are splash Isbar X copper Marans (dark brown eggs) and 5 that are BCM X CCL (green eggs...don't ask me why the CCL is laying green, she came from a gorgeous dark blue egg herself). I've been test hatching these crosses and chicks are healthy and strong. I can ship tomorrow. Please PM if interested.

 

[seventreesfarm]

I posted a link and description in the golden cuckoo marans thread to a flickr album with my latest batch of chicks. I need a flow chart to figure out what generation some of these are, since some of the hens involved are first and second generations of an F1 roo and F1 & F2 hens. Fingers crossed for egg colors as cool as the feather colors...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/506944/lets-talk-golden-cuckoo-marans/80#post_14038449

 

[Olive Oil]

Question for all who have produced 1st generation Olive Eggers from your own stock and have seen the eggs produced by their pullets - have all of the eggs produced by your 1st gen OE pullets produced "olive" eggs? Or are some brown?

I have read several posts from people about birds who inherited the beards and muffs and or pea combs (if using Ameracauna's / EE's) producing olive eggs while birds who did not inherit those traits produced brown.

I ask because I went into my coop and was ecstatic to see my first egg! The saw that it was...brown...I am HOPING that the egg came from my hen who has not inherited these traits and that perhaps some of her sisters who have will olive it!

 

[ronott1]

Question for all who have produced 1st generation Olive Eggers from your own stock and have seen the eggs produced by their pullets - have all of the eggs produced by your 1st gen OE pullets produced "olive" eggs? Or are some brown?

I have read several posts from people about birds who inherited the beards and muffs and or pea combs (if using Ameracauna's / EE's) producing olive eggs while birds who did not inherit those traits produced brown.

I ask because I went into my coop and was ecstatic to see my first egg! The saw that it was...brown...I am HOPING that the egg came from my hen who has not inherited these traits and that perhaps some of her sisters who have will olive it!

Blue egg shell color gene is dominant so the first generation need to have one from a parent to have a blue egg shell. If the blue egg laying parent has one white and one blue then on average half of the chicks will be white shell layers. The brown is a coating(and yes sometimes the pigment can penetrate the egg shell and change the color on the inside) and there are from 9 to 15 genes involved in the brown color hence the different shades and textures of brown eggs.

Best guess is that the blue egg shell parent only has one blue gene and you will have half of the F1s laying brown and the other half laying green.

The pea comb is closely associated with the blue egg shell gene with araucana based blue egg layers. Look for F1s with a pea comb and they will most likely lay blue to green eggs.

 

[Euarto Gullible]

Question for all who have produced 1st generation Olive Eggers from your own stock and have seen the eggs produced by their pullets - have all of the eggs produced by your 1st gen OE pullets produced "olive" eggs? Or are some brown?

I have read several posts from people about birds who inherited the beards and muffs and or pea combs (if using Ameracauna's / EE's) producing olive eggs while birds who did not inherit those traits produced brown.

I ask because I went into my coop and was ecstatic to see my first egg! The saw that it was...brown...I am HOPING that the egg came from my hen who has not inherited these traits and that perhaps some of her sisters who have will olive it!

If you use Easter Eggers vs. pure Ameraucanas, you can experience some brown egg layers as your F1's. If you have pure Ameraucanas from reputable breeders, that doesn't happen. F1's with single combs from EE are 99% certain to lay brown eggs. I have several bearded pea comb crosses from Easter Eggers and BCM that lay brown eggs. A pea comb indicates a likelihood of a colored egg, but not a guarantee. The beard indicates nothing and is an inherited trait completely independent of egg color.

 

[tiedyemommy]

Peeper on the Porch...Peek-A-Boo!

 

[Euarto Gullible]