The Olive-Egger thread!

[Olive Oil]

I got a second egg today and took a photo outside, its 61g I'm surprised at the size of them for first eggs!

Nice eggs!

 

[LisaLouHoo]

I just candled my 7 OE eggs that I have in my bator on day 4. This is my first time hatching with an incubator and am using a Brinsea mini advanced. Happy to report that all 7 are showing growth!!!
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[Corkypx3]

How exciting, I'm quite tempted to hatch again but don't know if I've got room for many more babies. My two pullets I hatched last year have just started laying, one today for the first time.

The one on the right is Phylis' first egg the other three and from the same hen, her first three eggs there is quite a variation and today's egg looks quite grey. I'm thinking later in the season when the marans eggs are paler they will be a paler green. My family can't understand my excitement and tell me they just look brown!

 

[aart]

So this broody:

Sat on these eggs:


That were laid by this EE hen:


And hatched out these chicks:


That were sired by this Welsummer cockerel:


They are living in the coop partition and will join the main flock in a week or so.

 

[estamets]

So this broody:

Sat on these eggs:


That were laid by this EE hen:


And hatched out these chicks:


That were sired by this Welsummer cockerel:


They are living in the coop partition and will join the main flock in a week or so.

cuties!!!! That looks like it will be a great combination.

 

[mymilliefleur]

So this broody:

Sat on these eggs:


That were laid by this EE hen:


And hatched out these chicks:


That were sired by this Welsummer cockerel:


They are living in the coop partition and will join the main flock in a week or so.

Beautiful! Looks like you had a great hatch!

 

[Olive Oil]

How exciting, I'm quite tempted to hatch again but don't know if I've got room for many more babies. My two pullets I hatched last year have just started laying, one today for the first time.

The one on the right is Phylis' first egg the other three and from the same hen, her first three eggs there is quite a variation and today's egg looks quite grey. I'm thinking later in the season when the marans eggs are paler they will be a paler green. My family can't understand my excitement and tell me they just look brown!

 

[LisaLouHoo]

@aart
I love the wellsummer cockerel pictured above. He's a beauty. So, the babies may become olive eggers or may become brown egg layers, depending on what gene the EE hen passes on, correct??

 

[aart]

@aart
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the wellsummer cockerel pictured above. He's a beauty. So, the babies may become olive eggers or may become brown egg layers, depending on what gene the EE hen passes on, correct??

Correct, if the hen passed a blue egg gene to the pullets (and lets hope they are all pullets!!) should get pretty dark green eggs.
Only six months to wait and see :-\

 

[LisaLouHoo]

Correct, if the hen passed a blue egg gene to the pullets (and lets hope they are all pullets!!) should get pretty dark green eggs.
Only six months to wait and see :-\

I'm hoping for the same thing. I have 7 eggs in the bator right now. 5 are olive eggs from my olive egger covered by a dark blue marans roo. The other two are green eggs from my EE covered by same rooster. Last year I hatched one of her eggs covered by a New Hampshire roo and the pullet laid a brown egg. So I'm hopeful just like you are....first pullets, then olive eggs.