The Olive-Egger thread!

[dekel18042]

Ummm....I don't think so.

I believe that an EE is always less likely to have 2 blue egg shell genes than a pure Ameraucana because it's a cross breed.

That depends on what has gone into making the EE's and what has been passed down.

 

[dekel18042]

That would be a definite plus. Sometimes with the EE's, I've taken two months. I know, I keep telling myself they're girls as they turn into roosters. Hope never fails....but I did create some mixes and unfortunately I had two kinds of combs and I was sexing them by combs, and it took me a while to realize that all those with smaller combs weren't girls. I had to look at tail feathers, too.

 

[ochochicas]

Not that I want to disagree, but there are a lot of EEs out there that are pure blue egg layers. I have an EE that lays blue eggs. I also have some EEs that are ameraucana and crested cream legbar crosses. Some of them have a straight comb although they are blue egg producers. There is also a line of legbars out there that have rose combs. Any of these will produce olive eggers when crossed with a dark brown layer. It is hard to predict what your crosses will lay unless you know what parent lines they come from (or until you get an egg LOL).

 

[matt81c]

Get a brown egg hen and a americana roo ive gotten good results with that roo over brown egg layer hens.

 

[ronott1]

Not that I want to disagree, but there are a lot of EEs out there that are pure blue egg layers. I have an EE that lays blue eggs. I also have some EEs that are ameraucana and crested cream legbar crosses. Some of them have a straight comb although they are blue egg producers. There is also a line of legbars out there that have rose combs. Any of these will produce olive eggers when crossed with a dark brown layer. It is hard to predict what your crosses will lay unless you know what parent lines they come from (or until you get an egg LOL).

The legbars with a rose come must have been crossed with rose comb breed. A white egg shell gene would have been introduced so some of those will not have double blue.

The further away you get from pea comb blue egg layers the less the association with pea comb and blue egg shells. It was completely lost with the Cream legbars. The blue egg shell gene is the same in both breeds.

It is more likely that an EE will not have two blue egg shell genes than Ameraucana from a breeder that is Standard of Perfection. You can get some of the best blue eggs from an EE. You just never know what you will get.

 

[aart]

Quote: Exactly.

I got 2 EE's last spring, one has a pretty strong blue egg...the other lays green.
Will cover them both with a Welsummer cockerel this year and see what we get.

 

[lovenati]

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Yes. I crossed my EE roo (since I did not have a true Ameraucana) with my Welsummer hen, and while I'm not sure I would call the color olive, it is an interesting color. I'm going to attempt to put a photo here, which generally has not worked with my IPad: https://www.backyardchickens.com/gallery/image/view/id/4702629/album/6131617 Hopefully, this link is correct, otherwise, if you want to see the egg you can go to my page and it is Photo # 5 in the album entitled uploads. The olive egg is in the upper left corner.

Doesn't look like that photo came through. Would love to see it.

 

[buckabucka]

Trying this again, lovenati.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/g/i/4702629/a/6131617/uploads/

 

[ronott1]

Trying this again, lovenati.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/g/i/4702629/a/6131617/uploads/

Hi buckabucka!

Use the insert image tool from the tool bar.

 

[buckabucka]

I couldn't find the image in the "my recent images" tab, but I could link to it from my old post. It also wasn't saved on my IPad (I'm out of storage!), but I just now saved it temporarily in hopes it will work this way: