The Olive-Egger thread!

[MelissaZeno]

I have an Olive Egger that came from a Marans and Cream Legbar mix, I was hoping someone would be able to tell me how many eggs do they normally yield in a year?

 

[Manningjw]

I have an Olive Egger that came from a Marans and Cream Legbar mix, I was hoping someone would be able to tell me how many eggs do they normally yield in a year?

You never know when you have a hybrid. You could see slightly better production than either of the parent breeds because of hybrid vigor but nothing is certain. There are many varieties of marans and even within those varieties the productivity will depend on selection of the stock. In other words, let us know how they lay!

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[MelissaZeno]

Thank you! I am am trying to keep track of who lays what egg but I only have one EE and one OE, So those are the only two I can keep track of. Lately they haven't laid eggs but I also didn't put artificial light in the coop this winter.

 

[rebrascora]

Hi

Just wondering if I can join this thread since I just got my first olive eggs and they are fabulous!! Small but really pretty colour and just perfect.... I'm a really proud chicken Mam! The lady responsible for them is a Cream Legbar x RIR hybrid who I bred myself and I just love her to bits, she is such a pet. I bred 30+ chicks last year of various breeding and she is, beyond doubt, my favourite. She was 23 weeks on Friday and provided me with my first olive egg to mark the occasion. She has since laid me 2 more (so 3 in 3 days) and all have been laid in the official nest box with no mistakes, so she gets a gold star from me! Can you tell I'm thrilled to bits with her? I have to keep opening the egg box and checking on the colour to make sure it is as good as I think it is!
Does anyone else on this thread have a CCLxRIR hybrid?

 

[ronott1]

Hi

Just wondering if I can join this thread since I just got my first olive eggs and they are fabulous!! Small but really pretty colour and just perfect.... I'm a really proud chicken Mam! The lady responsible for them is a Cream Legbar x RIR hybrid who I bred myself and I just love her to bits, she is such a pet. I bred 30+ chicks last year of various breeding and she is, beyond doubt, my favourite. She was 23 weeks on Friday and provided me with my first olive egg to mark the occasion. She has since laid me 2 more (so 3 in 3 days) and all have been laid in the official nest box with no mistakes, so she gets a gold star from me! Can you tell I'm thrilled to bits with her? I have to keep opening the egg box and checking on the colour to make sure it is as good as I think it is!
Does anyone else on this thread have a CCLxRIR hybrid?

Please post pictures of the pullets and the eggs!

 

[Manningjw]

Hi

Just wondering if I can join this thread since I just got my first olive eggs and they are fabulous!!

I don't think there are any gate keepers here! Everyone is welcome, with or without Olive Eggers. Welcome!

 

[Manningjw]

Please post pictures of the pullets and the eggs!

Please do!

 

[rebrascora]

Many thanks for the warm welcome.

I'm sorry but I'm a terrible disappointment when it comes to photos.... I'm a technophobe. There's a new phone here with camera etc. waiting for me to pluck up the courage to use it, but I'm so used to my ancient one that I'm loath to swap the sim over. Really must get it sorted because I SO want to show off my sweet little bird and her amazing eggs!

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

Hi

Just wondering if I can join this thread since I just got my first olive eggs and they are fabulous!! Small but really pretty colour and just perfect.... I'm a really proud chicken Mam! The lady responsible for them is a Cream Legbar x RIR hybrid who I bred myself and I just love her to bits, she is such a pet. I bred 30+ chicks last year of various breeding and she is, beyond doubt, my favourite. She was 23 weeks on Friday and provided me with my first olive egg to mark the occasion. She has since laid me 2 more (so 3 in 3 days) and all have been laid in the official nest box with no mistakes, so she gets a gold star from me! Can you tell I'm thrilled to bits with her? I have to keep opening the egg box and checking on the colour to make sure it is as good as I think it is!
Does anyone else on this thread have a CCLxRIR hybrid?

Welcome from across the pond!

 

[Merro]

I have crossed a blue egg layer to my Red Star which lays a medium to dark brown egg (other red stars certainly lay darker eggs than her) and got a nice olive colored egg out of the mix. Considering that you started with an olive egger, you should have nice olive colored eggs crossing back to a brown egger and should have better egg laying theoretically.

The following eggs were my F1 crosses. These eggs were after about a week or so of daily egg laying so not as dark green as the very first eggs.




Depending on your parent stock, you might be able to select for pea comb for the presence of the blue gene, eliminating the 50% that will lay brown eggs right away. I have been able to do that but I know my parent stock had pea comb/blue gene linked. My cockerel was the result of (AmeracanaxLeghorn) rooster covering Austra-white hens. Selecting for pea combs I bred the best cockerel to my Red Star for the olive eggers which yielded 100% of the selected pea comb chickens having a single copy of O gene. The other 50% straight comb chicks were sold at hatch.

Nice color!
I'm really entirely new to genetics/crossbreeding. I have mutts, but just love them and don't really care what winds up.

This is my only chick that I actually bred:
The mom is an EE/Arakjdlfkjsd from Farm&Home. She lays a light blue egg. She has a very small peacomb.
The roo is a black silkie roo from show stock. He has a LARGE walnut comb.

Here's the little one:

Love those toes.


Dad and Mom are in the back.



-- But as for the olive egg-hatched (Olive + RIR) one, it appears that he has a straight comb.