The Olive-Egger thread!

[matt81c]

Still have her and my other females I thought sex was based on temp of eggs and male I use an incubator at 99° roughly a cheap one too a square syrofoam one.Hoping to breed my Delewares and partridge rocks this year from the trios I have I may also cross the delware with barred and some welsummers with the partridge rocks.

 

[estamets]

Still have her and my other females I thought sex was based on temp of eggs and male I use an incubator at 99° roughly a cheap one too a square syrofoam one.Hoping to breed my Delewares and partridge rocks this year from the trios I have I may also cross the delware with barred and some welsummers with the partridge rocks.

Two of my favorite breeds! Post pics if you cross them, please.

 

[ronott1]

Still have her and my other females I thought sex was based on temp of eggs and male I use an incubator at 99° roughly a cheap one too a square syrofoam one.Hoping to breed my Delewares and partridge rocks this year from the trios I have I may also cross the delware with barred and some welsummers with the partridge rocks.

Temperature and gender is for certain lizards and other reptiles. Not chickens for sure.

Gender is determined by the egg that the hen lays.

Quote: http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/determining_sex_in_chicks/ Some think that keeping temps too low or too high will cause one gender to die in the shell. I am not convinced of this at all though.

When you incubate too low or too high, you are causing problems with the chicks that can last a life time for them.

 

[chicken pickin]

My newest Olive Egger laid her first egg the other day. I was very happy with the egg color. She came from hatching eggs I received so I don't know her exact parentage but I believe she is some sort of Marans/Am combination.

This is her first egg

 

[ronott1]

My newest Olive Egger laid her first egg the other day. I was very happy with the egg color. She came from hatching eggs I received so I don't know her exact parentage but I believe she is some sort of Marans/Am combination.

This is her first egg

Very nice!

 

[Farmer Viola]

My newest Olive Egger laid her first egg the other day. I was very happy with the egg color. She came from hatching eggs I received so I don't know her exact parentage but I believe she is some sort of Marans/Am combination.

This is her first egg

Congratulations! Beautiful color

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

I like the speckles. Waiting for my first olive egg...from a beautiful lavender Am/Marans cross pullet.

 

[buckabucka]

Awesome egg! I love the speckles!

 

[FuzzyHens]

That egg is really pretty!! Congrats!!

 

[chicken pickin]

Thank you everyone! Im happy with it. The color looks so much better in natural sunlight, those pics were taken at night under kitchen lights.