The Olive-Egger thread!

[vpatt]

This is two of her eggs....I can't get a very good photo to show the color.....but I think they are very pretty.

 

[bamadude]

I think so too.

 

[vpatt]

Thanks Bamadude.

They are not quite this dark....but all the other pics turned out so light!

 

[Euarto Gullible]

 

[ronott1]

They are very pretty and

look at those eggs!

 

[bamadude]

X2 those birds look alot like my brahmas color and pattern

 

[ochochicas]

Wow, beautiful eggs. And I am in love with the black hen! I have four Black Copper Marans eggs in the incubator that are due to hatch on Saturday. I hope to get one (or maybe two) nice olive egger pullets out of them. If one of them looks like your black hen I'll think I've won the lottery!

 

[dscottp]

So, we have two EE's sisters that, disappointingly, lay lightly tinted (brown) eggs. Can anyone tell me what the odds are of having Olive Egger offspring when crossed to one of our BCM roos?
Here's Cleveland Brown ... her sister looks identical but is almost solid black.

Thanks,

dScott

 

[ronott1]

So, we have two EE's sisters that, disappointingly, lay lightly tinted (brown) eggs. Can anyone tell me what the odds are of having Olive Egger offspring when crossed to one of our BCM roos?
Here's Cleveland Brown ... her sister looks identical but is almost solid black.

Thanks,

dScott

They will not make olive egg laying hens. The blue egg shell gene is dominant so your girls only have two recessive white egg shell genes each.

Green is a blue egg shell coated with dark brown. Blue + brown-green

 

[dscottp]

Thank you very much for the explanation Ron. I was really hoping that at least a portion of their offspring would lay blue/green. Fascinating stuff... I'll cull and replace these two girls in the near future.


Cheers,
dScott