The Olive-Egger thread!

[Ellie]

My grandkids call them "cammo eggs", lol.

 

[speckledhen]

I like Cammo Eggs!

 

[silverfilly]

So glad I found this thread. I just orderd some EEs from Cackle, they wount be here till April but I hope to cross them with my MAran roo. Maybe I should have orderd more than 5 chicks...oh no I feel a modified order coming on...somebody please stop me!

 

[Ellie]

They are wonderful birds... I say more is better.

 

[tfpets]

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All of my desperate pleas for someone to stop me have had the same results - with emotional support later when dealing with knowing I got more chickens than I should because my BYC friends just "egged" me on to get more!

Just modify the order, you know you should have more than 5 chicks, dont you? They're going to send you packing peanuts anyhow, at least if you order more, you have a choice in the matter, and you can pick Pullets of a breed/variety you WANT!! Yippee!!

Oops, was I supposed to stop you. Oh, stop, yeah, stop.

Did I do good??

Tina

 

[onthespot]

Yah, stop! Don't! Stop... don't stop... sdon't stop!

 

[cottagegarden]

Blue and Black bearded Olive Egger Chicks from a Cuckoo Marans roo and Ameraucanas hens
The blue is so pretty, it looks like lace.

and some different chicks three weeks

 

[onthespot]

Wow! those look great! I like the blue too.

 

[cottagegarden]

Any guesses as to what the off spring of the two cuckooed blues will look like? I am guessing more blue, and black cuckoos, solid blue, and possibly a solid black or splash cuckoo?
The F1 is just lovely, just absolutely beautiful just curious as to possible outcomes of offspring. I made them as a gift for a BYC friend and will deliver pullets in a few months, which is fine if she just wants the eggs but I wanted to see if I could talk her into one of the wee roos if she wants to grow here own so to speak.

 

[onthespot]

you could also get solids, If what I heard is right. Barred roo over non-barred hen is NOT sex-linked, but the other way around it is. You have no way of knowing what is a boy or girl there until it shows pointy saddle and hackle feathers, lays an egg or crows. Since there could be roos there with a single barring gene, they could only pass it on to half of their chicks i think. The barred hens will pass it on to their male offpsring, (I think. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.) You are right about the BBS genetics, sooo.... all of that being said, you could get barred or solid, in blue, black or splash, and have it be either a roo or a pullet and not know until a few months from now. Hope that helps.

edit to add, if you cross the single gened offspring, you could still end up with not knowing either. You could end up with single gened males, or double barred gene males, which "should" have a more prominenet spot on their head upon hatching. But you could also get solid pullets, single gened pullets, single gened roos or double gened roos. It will probably take a few generations to set the barring gene right, along with the pea comb and the beard, of course, just for looks.