The Olive-Egger thread!

[dekel18042]

I'm paraphrasing here, but if you read the cream legbar standard it says the eggs can either be blue or greenish, so blue eggs are not a given for the breed even if we wish. One thing I have found is that as the hen lays more and gets deeper into her cycle and the eggs get paler, the greenish eggs often then look more blue, although a pale blue. Your egg looks like it still has a deep color.
I have several birds that lay a bluish egg but my best blue comes from a little girl whose mother was an EE and her father was a mix. He hatched from a blue egg, but his sisters lay pink eggs.

 

[topdog24]

I bought a hen who is supposedly an olive egger. She isn't laying currently. Any way to know if she will lay green eggs?

Thanks

When you see an egg, genetics can be hit and miss, although we assume when we put certain breeds in a cross that it will result in green or olive eggs

 

[Bejammie]

So if I took my blue laying hen and crossed a maran rooster, id have to hatch the eggs and wait for them to lay to know who got the olive genes?

 

[dekel18042]

So if I took my blue laying hen and crossed a maran rooster, id have to hatch the eggs and wait for them to lay to know who got the olive genes?

Nope, all of the hens should lay olive eggs.

 

[Bejammie]

That is awesome. Lol now if u have an ee rooster and a maran hen, would it be the same?

 

[dekel18042]

That is awesome. Lol now if u have an ee rooster and a maran hen, would it be the same?

Yes. I used a cream legbar rooster (blue egg) with marans and welsumer hens (both dark brown layers) Olive eggs are the result of a blue egg layer bred to a dark brown egg layer. Various breeds are used which is why the progeny aren't standard looking.

 

[chicken pickin]

So if I took my blue laying hen and crossed a maran rooster, id have to hatch the eggs and wait for them to lay to know who got the olive genes?


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Originally Posted by dekel18042


Nope, all of the hens should lay olive eggs.

Only if you know that the blue egg laying hen carries TWO blue egg genes.

Or if the Blue gene is from the male, you need to know the male carries TWO blue egg genes.

 

[Bejammie]

Only if you know that the blue egg laying hen carries TWO blue egg genes.

Or if the Blue gene is from the male, you need to know the male carries TWO blue egg genes.

How do I know??? :-( I have ees and marans and I wanted to make some babies lol

 

[Bejammie]

Next year...make babies next year I should say. I need to learn more before then lol

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

How do I know??? :-( I have ees and marans and I wanted to make some babies lol

PSA time again. I just keep posting this as it is the BEST OE breeding chart I know of. https://drive.google.com/a/flex.com/file/d/0B2tKFvBKXZesVDZxaUYteElKTE0/view