The Olive-Egger thread!

[LisaLouHoo]

Hi, My OE is around 5 weeks old, can anyone tell me if it's a pullet or cockerel? I recently noticed 3 rows on the pea comb which indicates cockerel in EE's but I wasn't sure if if it held true in OEs??

Just because he is so pink at 5 weeks, I'd say you have a little roo.

 

[Dianne88]

Just because he is so pink at 5 weeks, I'd say you have a little roo.

I I thinks so too, the breeder seems to think the body type is still hen like so I will give him/ her a few weeks.

 

[abserbean]

I have a little chick, about nine weeks old, that was a barnyard cross of purebred parents. We weren't sure of the parentage, but my chick hatched out of a green egg. Now that it is growing out, I'm pretty sure it is a BLRW roo over an ameracuana hen. The chick has a pea comb, no wattles, no beard or muffs, and yellow legs. I "think" it is a pullet, but until about six weeks I was convinced it was a roo due to comb. Would this combo produce an olive egger? I know BLRW eggs are pretty light, more pink than brown, so I'm thinking the egg would stay more light green. Hopefully since there is a pea comb, she is carrying the blue gene. Has anyone crossed these breeds before?
Here is "her" pic.

 

[Olive Oil]

I am trying to figure out what color this fluff becomes.This is the first chick this color that my chickens have given me. All the others have been black, blue, or silver chipmunk fluffs.




An older silver chipmunk chick has a black laced white head and partridge feathers on the body for the juvenile coloring.

 

[Whovian]

This is my Olive Egger Roo "Popeye." Unfortunately we are trying to re-home him as we don't need a rooster. The picture doesn't do him justice. His feathers are all green shimmery.

 

[bekahubbell]

He is very handsome. What is he mixed with?

 

[Peep-Chicken]

This is my Olive Egger Roo "Popeye." Unfortunately we are trying to re-home him as we don't need a rooster. The picture doesn't do him justice. His feathers are all green shimmery.

I would so take him if you were closer

 

[chandrahoffman]

I am coming here as a total newbie to introduce myself and hopefully get some feedback on a backyard breeding project I'd like to try. This photo is "Bright", my 13 week old rooster hatched from a woman who is breeding BCM and Wheatens to get olive eggers. I bought 8 of her fertilized eggs to give my 2 broody silkies (that's his "mama" pictured in the background) a chance to hatch babies. He came out of a medium blue egg. Here's my hope: in my mature flock I have 4 easter eggers who lay lightish blue eggs, and one BCM hen who lays a lovely dark choco egg with almost a purple undertone. If I let him fertilize and collect the eggs from these 5 hens and give them to my silkie mamas to hatch, what are my chances of getting an olive egger hen out of all of this?

Disclaimer: I am brand new to breeding, and only doing this in the interest of a more colorful egg basket. I won't cull or weed out any chicks, hens or roos, that don't come out the way I hope. My flock is a hobby and I'm only pursuing this for fun. I'm looking for input based on what I have free-ranging in my yard and the looks and lineage of this fellow that might indicate my chances of an Olive Egger. Thanks in advance for any feedback. Also, if I am on the wrong thread, boot me off, no hard feelings!

 

[aart]

I am coming here as a total newbie to introduce myself and hopefully get some feedback on a backyard breeding project I'd like to try. This photo is "Bright", my 13 week old rooster hatched from a woman who is breeding BCM and Wheatens to get olive eggers. I bought 8 of her fertilized eggs to give my 2 broody silkies (that's his "mama" pictured in the background) a chance to hatch babies. He came out of a medium blue egg. Here's my hope: in my mature flock I have 4 easter eggers who lay lightish blue eggs, and one BCM hen who lays a lovely dark choco egg with almost a purple undertone. If I let him fertilize and collect the eggs from these 5 hens and give them to my silkie mamas to hatch, what are my chances of getting an olive egger hen out of all of this?

Disclaimer: I am brand new to breeding, and only doing this in the interest of a more colorful egg basket. I won't cull or weed out any chicks, hens or roos, that don't come out the way I hope. My flock is a hobby and I'm only pursuing this for fun. I'm looking for input based on what I have free-ranging in my yard and the looks and lineage of this fellow that might indicate my chances of an Olive Egger. Thanks in advance for any feedback. Also, if I am on the wrong thread, boot me off, no hard feelings!

You'd only get an Olive(dark green) egg out of the Marans...maybe, but you might get any various shades of green eggs out of the EE's.
I'm no geneticist, but the mixed genes of the cockerel(tho he appears to have at least one blue gene indicated by the pea comb) over the EE hens could give you anything from brownish to pinkish to greenish to blueish(blueish if the hens have pea combs).

 

[Olive Oil]

I am coming here as a total newbie to introduce myself and hopefully get some feedback on a backyard breeding project I'd like to try. This photo is "Bright", my 13 week old rooster hatched from a woman who is breeding BCM and Wheatens to get olive eggers. I bought 8 of her fertilized eggs to give my 2 broody silkies (that's his "mama" pictured in the background) a chance to hatch babies. He came out of a medium blue egg. Here's my hope: in my mature flock I have 4 easter eggers who lay lightish blue eggs, and one BCM hen who lays a lovely dark choco egg with almost a purple undertone. If I let him fertilize and collect the eggs from these 5 hens and give them to my silkie mamas to hatch, what are my chances of getting an olive egger hen out of all of this?

Disclaimer: I am brand new to breeding, and only doing this in the interest of a more colorful egg basket. I won't cull or weed out any chicks, hens or roos, that don't come out the way I hope. My flock is a hobby and I'm only pursuing this for fun. I'm looking for input based on what I have free-ranging in my yard and the looks and lineage of this fellow that might indicate my chances of an Olive Egger. Thanks in advance for any feedback. Also, if I am on the wrong thread, boot me off, no hard feelings!