The Olive-Egger thread!

[aart]

Quote: Some sexlink eggs are pretty dark.

 

[dekel18042]

If I put my Red Sexlink hen in the breeding pen with my Creaml Legbars (one roo and 3 hens) would that cross produce Olive Eggers)?

Go for it. I would suspect a minty green egg, but that said I hatched some eggs from a pink laying mixed breed and my cream legbar roo and surprisingly I'm getting some nice olive eggs from the offspring.

 

[chickengr]

If I put my Red Sexlink hen in the breeding pen with my Creaml Legbars (one roo and 3 hens) would that cross produce Olive Eggers)?

you should get some shade of olive green, maybe not too dark.

 

[gimmie birdies]

My olive egger Silver died this morning. (Back left)She was almost 2 weeks I didn't even know she was sick.


I was putting down new paper, (the one below) I had hoped it was a sign she would make it,

I even gave her sips of yolk and had her on a heating pad.

It is sad, because I was practically doing back flips when she hatched because of her color.

 

[chickengr]

My olive egger Silver died this morning. (Back left)She was almost 2 weeks I didn't even know she was sick.


I was putting down new paper, (the one below) I had hoped it was a sign she would make it,

I even gave her sips of yolk and had her on a heating pad.

It is sad, because I was practically doing back flips when she hatched because of her color.

sorry for your loss.

maybe she wasn't sick. as my vet says it might be a natural selection that happens to all living beings.

 

[montverdechick]

My olive egger Silver died this morning. (Back left)She was almost 2 weeks I didn't even know she was sick. I was putting down new paper, (the one below) I had hoped it was a sign she would make it, I even gave her sips of yolk and had her on a heating pad. It is sad, because I was practically doing back flips when she hatched because of her color.

So sorry for your loss...

 

[montverdechick]

Out of seven OE eggs hatched, four are cockerals, one is a pullet, and two I'm still not sure about. Any guesses? They are seven weeks old. Thanks!

 

[gimmie birdies]

Cute little guys!

Thank you all for caring about Silver, I will set more of those eggs in May, or June...


I had processed the dad almost 3 weeks before egg was set, then it hatched 6 weeks after the dad died.

 

[deserteggs22]

Today I hatched some F2 chicks that I got from @KernH I had originally set 6, but the 2 that died died around day 14. But, the 4 that did hatch are beautiful and healthy!

 

[Manningjw]

Go for it. I would suspect a minty green egg, but that said I hatched some eggs from a pink laying mixed breed and my cream legbar roo and surprisingly I'm getting some nice olive eggs from the offspring.

My Red Sex Link hen didn't lay as deep of a brown color as previous RSL hens but she still produced some good F1 olive eggers. A few of her F1 offspring trended off to more minty colors due to their sheer productivity laying 6+ eggs a week, more than I would expect from a Maran cross. My first girl layed a nice Olive colored egg even though she only skipped 1 day a month of laying eggs. She was more productive then the original Red Sex Link was but sadly a raccoon got her.

These are F1 cross eggs from Red Sex Link hen with blue and white eggs from comparison:




The brown egg here is the Red Sex Link's egg, it isn't nearly as dark as my previous Red Sex Links have been but it was the only RSL I still had.