The Olive-Egger thread!

[otakalhasas]

Amen to that! And for some reason OE is hard for me to remember as well!

Happy New Years, everyone, two legged, four legged, and winged alike!!!! May the New Year be filled with beautiful eggs, beautiful chicks and wonderful times!!!!!

 

[gimmie birdies]

See you next year!

 

[chickengr]

happy new year

 

[country lovin]

Well it is official all these little ones turned out to be roos

 

[otakalhasas]

No, the offspring should be called EE's ...
.......because there's no guarantee that they will carry a blue egg gene and could very well lay brown.

Both EE and OE are a cross, not a breed.

THANK YOU for not calling them "mutts"! Coming from dogs, I find the term derogatory and that has morphed over, in my mind, to chickens. Many of our current AKC breeds are the result of deliberate cross breeding until they breed true to a standard. Same, methinks, with chickens. If there is no rhyme nor reason to the breeding, they are barnyard mixes, if they are crossed with a specific purpose in mind, they are crosses.

Yes, there are dogs of many mixed breeds that are considered "mutts". But how much nicer to refer to them as a "Heinz 57" or simply a "mix"!!!!!

 

[gimmie birdies]

Barn yard mix.

 

[otakalhasas]

Yup, I agree!

 

[Melissa F]

Last spring I hatched out eggs from our varied flock. I had one rooster, a Rhode Island Red, and I was hoping the chicks we got from our Easter Eggers would be Olive Eggers. This week they started laying...and got an olive colored egg! I think this must be the hen that layed it- what do you think?



Note- the photo shows 2 olive eggs, but they were from two different days. I do have another hen that looks almost identical, though, so I am hoping for another Olive Egger!

 

[aart]

The beard/muff and pea comb can be indicators of blue egg gene......so could be.
Only way to know for sure is to stalk the coop and catch them in the act or separate for a couple days.
I segregated a few of my crosses to pinpoint who was laying a certain egg, but I can split my coop so it was pretty easy.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

here is a Crele olive egger i have been working with she is a third cross hen back to Crele Penedesenca
. I lost a few of my original girls and need to try and hatch some more