The Olive-Egger thread!

[Apocha14]

Super pale is not what you want to get OE.  Very blue X dark brown will get you OE.  EE may or may not have two blue egg genes, which is what you need to guarantee OE in the first generation.

Darn lol thank you! What will I get then?

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

Darn lol thank you! What will I get then?

Hard to say, as EE are all over the map. Possible light OE, brown egg, or ??

 

[Apocha14]

Hard to say, as EE are all over the map.  Possible light OE, brown egg, or ??  

 

[Feanor]

I have a question I can't seem to find an answer to. I have a Easter Egger rooster (surprise! I ordered pullets) and I was wondering if roosters carry blue/green egg trait, too... So would crossing an EE ROO over a Welsummer or Maran hen create olive eggers? I know EEs are muts and all, but I'm only interested in egg color. I can find tons of info about people crossing dark egg laying ROO over an EE hen, but nothing on the other way around. Any one with experience? I'd just like to know this surprise EE roo is worth something to my flock other than just hawk decoy lol. Thanks!

 

[ronott1]

I have a question I can't seem to find an answer to. I have a Easter Egger rooster (surprise! I ordered pullets) and I was wondering if roosters carry blue/green egg trait, too... So would crossing an EE ROO over a Welsummer or Maran hen create olive eggers? I know EEs are muts and all, but I'm only interested in egg color. I can find tons of info about people crossing dark egg laying ROO over an EE hen, but nothing on the other way around. Any one with experience? I'd just like to know this surprise EE roo is worth something to my flock other than just hawk decoy lol. Thanks!

If he has a pea comb, he should have at least one blue gene and he will pass it on to half of the chicks. If he has two blue genes, all of the chicks will lay egg with blue shells. The brown coating genes are separate from the egg shell genes and they will come from the welsummer or maran. The eggs will be brown or green

 

[chrissyr]

I have a question I can't seem to find an answer to. I have a Easter Egger rooster (surprise! I ordered pullets) and I was wondering if roosters carry blue/green egg trait, too... So would crossing an EE ROO over a Welsummer or Maran hen create olive eggers? I know EEs are muts and all, but I'm only interested in egg color. I can find tons of info about people crossing dark egg laying ROO over an EE hen, but nothing on the other way around. Any one with experience? I'd just like to know this surprise EE roo is worth something to my flock other than just hawk decoy lol. Thanks!

I bred my white EE to a Marans and ended up with a brown egg layer.
Should have known because the EE laid a green tinted egg.
She did not have a true pea comb either.

 

[buckabucka]

I have a question I can't seem to find an answer to. I have a Easter Egger rooster (surprise! I ordered pullets) and I was wondering if roosters carry blue/green egg trait, too... So would crossing an EE ROO over a Welsummer or Maran hen create olive eggers? I know EEs are muts and all, but I'm only interested in egg color. I can find tons of info about people crossing dark egg laying ROO over an EE hen, but nothing on the other way around. Any one with experience? I'd just like to know this surprise EE roo is worth something to my flock other than just hawk decoy lol. Thanks!

I don't think you can have a definitive answer without knowing the background of your EE roo, but I got a lovely olive egger out of my EE roo x Welsummer cross. My EE roo had fertility issues. After many failed hatching attempts I got one egg to hatch, and it happened to be a pullet.

If you already have an EE roo and a Welsummer, why not try it? Unless you are very limited for space....

 

[Feanor]

Thanks for the replies! I'll definitely try it, I just didn't understand why every breeding page was always the pure breed roo over the EE hen instead of the other way around. I figure genetics are 50/50 either way, right? Or do chicks get certain traits from daddy and certain others from mommy?

 

[buckabucka]

Thanks for the replies! I'll definitely try it, I just didn't understand why every breeding page was always the pure breed roo over the EE hen instead of the other way around. I figure genetics are 50/50 either way, right? Or do chicks get certain traits from daddy and certain others from mommy?

Well, not entirely. I know very little about chicken genetics. You may find it interesting to read these short, but informative articles:
https://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/genetics-mini-series/

 

[Hangtown Farms]

here is some of my crele olive egger eggs in the middle here