The Olive-Egger thread!

[aart]

Quote: Your avatar is hilarious.

 

[bamadude]

Your avatar is hilarious.

Ty..It suits me more and more each day

 

[Manningjw]

blue cuckoo would look awesome imho. Thanks for the info guys. I will definately use the blue for olive eggers. I will put the splash over ccl's for ice cream bars. Thanks

With the blue cockerel, 50% will be 'blue' or diluted, 50% will be non-blue which as others have already said, easier to see the head spots.

I personally would go with the splash simply because I love blue birds, and with 50% of the other offspring being blue anyway and just as hard to see spots as using the splash cockerel

. If you have 100% blue it might be easier to spot the differences?

 

[Olive Oil]

One of my 4 1/2 month old Olive Eggers is laying! She is OE x Marans. Now to figure out who laid it. Several of them look ready. They're really a lot brighter than they appear here. Need some clouds I think.

 

[ronott1]

One of my 4 1/2 month old Olive Eggers is laying! She is OE x Marans. Now to figure out who laid it. Several of them look ready. They're really a lot brighter than they appear here. Need some clouds I think.

congratulations on the beautiful eggs!

 

[bamadude]

X2

 

[aart]

x3

 

[rich1991]

Here he is at almost 4weeks oe rooster I think

 

[blackgoat]

So, my , um , OE laid her first egg a few days ago. When I found it I was kind of thinking that one of the EE had laid a small egg. She's supposed to be f3. Le sigh. She's so pretty, one of my favorite colors. I guess I'll have to wait a fews more months to see if my second OE lays an olive egg. LOL!

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Hmmm. I was just wondering if maybe CCLs aren't great for OEs because the Leghorn genes supress brown?

 

[ronott1]

So, my , um , OE laid her first egg a few days ago. When I found it I was kind of thinking that one of the EE had laid a small egg. She's supposed to be f3. Le sigh. She's so pretty, one of my favorite colors. I guess I'll have to wait a fews more months to see if my second OE lays an olive egg. LOL!

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Hmmm. I was just wondering if maybe CCLs aren't great for OEs because the Leghorn genes supress brown?

Where does the suppress brown come from? Brown is a combination of 12 to 15 genes. There may be a dilution because of gene inheritance.

This is a CCL crossed with a Crele Penedesenca: