The Olive-Egger thread!

[chicken pickin]

She looks very much to me like a Cream Legbar. Though sometimes Cream Legbar hybrids look very similar to pure Legbars. I would say you are very possibly looking at blue eggs in the future.

 

[vpatt]

I've got you beat!  LOL  My olive egger will be 41 weeks at the end of this week.  She is not showing any signs at all of planning to lay an egg. When she was around 6 months the rooster was interested in her, but now even he has given up.  She'll be a year old in February.  If she doesn't lay by then I'll just assume we have a "pet" OE and not one that actually produces eggs.  Her sisters started laying in August and in October (I don't own any of the sisters).  She is the bird in my avatar.  Perhaps being rumpless has affected her egg production abilities, but I'm not really sure.  She is F2 1/4 Amerauacan 3/4 Black copper marans.

Same here......my olive egger gave me an egg almost everyday and now she is sitting on four eggs. Out of eleven only four were laying and now for different reasons only one of those is laying. So I get an egg every other day...sigh

 

[aart]

I guess I'm lucky...my 'olive egger', cross between amberlink and EE, lays in marathon cycles:

34 days after first egg, tho several softshells and many double yolkers.
5 days off.
10 days on.
Glitchy for a week. 5 eggs.
50 days on.
1 day off.
Now 17 days running...and finally over 56grams consistently.

Tho they aren't a real dark olive, they are a nice addition to my basket.

 

[FuzzyHens]

I guess I'm lucky...my 'olive egger', cross between amberlink and EE, lays in marathon cycles:

34 days after first egg, tho several softshells and many double yolkers.
5 days off.
10 days on.
Glitchy for a week. 5 eggs.
50 days on.
1 day off.
Now 17 days running...and finally over 56grams consistently.

Tho they aren't a real dark olive, they are a nice addition to my basket.

That is a beautiful tray of eggs!!!

 

[ronott1]

I guess I'm lucky...my 'olive egger', cross between amberlink and EE, lays in marathon cycles:

34 days after first egg, tho several softshells and many double yolkers.
5 days off.
10 days on.
Glitchy for a week. 5 eggs.
50 days on.
1 day off.
Now 17 days running...and finally over 56grams consistently.

Tho they aren't a real dark olive, they are a nice addition to my basket.

They are nice eggs and getting to be a good layer too!

 

[aart]

Quote: Thanks....I think the amberlink added the prolific factor, we'll see hwo that holds up over a few years.
The blue are from a hatchery EE and the dark brown are from a 'breeder'(lineage unknown) Welsummer.

 

[kristin07035]

What pretty colored eggs!
I can't wait for my oe to start laying. Shes only 4 months old. I don't know how many weeks old she is (i purchased her last month as a started 3mo old pullet) but im hoping by jan/feb she starts.

 

[andreanar]

I think my EE is an olive egger. She's hatchery so I don't know her parentage. She laid her first egg today and I was shocked to see this olive green, I was expecting blue. What do you all think?

 

[FuzzyHens]

I think my EE is an olive egger. She's hatchery so I don't know her parentage. She laid her first egg today and I was shocked to see this olive green, I was expecting blue. What do you all think?

wow!! lucky you!! Beautiful egg!!

 

[vpatt]

I think my EE is an olive egger. She's hatchery so I don't know her parentage. She laid her first egg today and I was shocked to see this olive green, I was expecting blue. What do you all think?

Looks similar to my Olivia and her egg color.