The Olive-Egger thread!

[thick chick]

If I cross my black copper maran rooster with easter eggers would I get dark olive eggs. I have never breed any chicks yet so I am pretty excited to start in the spring.I also have bkue ameraucana hens. Plan to breed my black copper maran roo with them all.what do you think. Any advice. And charts I can look at

 

[gimmie birdies]

egg was BCM and blue isbar.

 

[Susieq2015]

egg was BCM and blue isbar.

Wow yellow chick from BCM and Isbar...does that make it a splash? I have a baby Legbar/Isbar roo im going to cross with my BCM hens this summer...see what i get for olive eggers

 

[gimmie birdies]

I think it will be white maybe splashed... my BCM (grandma)even though she was pure and had dark parents she is white.

 

[Saris]

I think it will be white maybe splashed... my BCM (grandma)even though she was pure and had dark parents she is white.

I think that's called mutant white, still pretty rare though some are breeding exclusively for it.

 

[chickengr]

Wow such gorgeous eggs on this thread! Gives me ideas for the future Grey, plum, the possibilities... Now does anyone know if i cross an EE roo hatched from a blue egg but has a white egg father with a BCM hen...will i get an olive egger or will that white grandad dilute the egg color? Thanks in advance!

you should get an olive egger. 1 blue egg parent should pass the blue egg gene to the offspring.

 

[morbius18]

If I cross my black copper maran rooster with easter eggers would I get dark olive eggs. I have never breed any chicks yet so I am pretty excited to start in the spring.I also have bkue ameraucana hens. Plan to breed my black copper maran roo with them all.what do you think. Any advice. And charts I can look at

If you want guaranteed olives, the Ameraucanas would be the one to use. Some Easter eggers only carry 1 blue egg gene, so only 50% will be olive eggers, the other will be brown. I'm currently testing my easter eggers with golden cuckoo marans to see if they both are homozygous for blue.

 

[gapey]

My blue olive egger (Isbar X Marans) laid her first egg. All 3 are now laying and seem to be very productive. One has laid an egg every day for 6 days straight.

 

[otakalhasas]

My blue olive egger (Isbar X Marans) laid her first egg. All 3 are now laying and seem to be very productive. One has laid an egg every day for 6 days straight.

VERY cool and VERY pretty egg!

 

[Allie3513]

Do I breed my F1 roo to my dark layer or F1 hens to dark layer to get F2?