The Olive-Egger thread!

[jboisvert]

My olive egger is by far my best layer, but not a good brooder at all! She's an Americauna X Dominique. Looks just like a Dominique but with grey legs and lays beautiful olive eggs!

 

[dekel18042]

My olive egger is by far my best layer, but not a good brooder at all! She's an Americauna X Dominique. Looks just like a Dominique but with grey legs and lays beautiful olive eggs!

It seems often the best layers are the least broody (which is why they may be the best layers). That is why some people keep a few hens of breeds known to go broody to hatch others' eggs or invest in an incubator.

 

[jboisvert]

That's just it though...she goes broody. Actually, she just started again yesterday for the second time this year! She's just terrible at it! She will sit most of day, feathers ruffled, the whole nine yards...then jump off for a couple hours or a day even, then return back. I have to break her of it, start getting eggs again, and hope she doesn't go broody! I think it's poor instinct, that she is on the cusp of having the ability to do it or not. It seems to have not been entirely bred out of her. Funny though, one of her offspring is the same way!

 

[ArtLady1]

9 week old OE. The comb tells me nothing. Can anyone say by the feathers boy or girl. I swear I hear someone crow this morning..

 

[Spinning Carrie]

Here are pictures of two of my three Olive Egger chicks. They are 12 days old, and could be a cross between a Cuckoo Marans or Black Copper Marans with either a Crested Cream Legbar or an Ameraucana.

In this pic the chipmunk and the brown in the upper left are the OE. I have a second chipmunk striped one that looks very similar to the first.

A better pic of my brown one, Henwen. She (I am hoping she is a she) has feathered legs.

I am going to comb through the thread, but if anyone has had these mixes before and could show me pics of adult birds I would love to see what they are going to look like!
Carrie

 

[chickengr]

9 week old OE. The comb tells me nothing. Can anyone say by the feathers boy or girl. I swear I hear someone crow this morning..

looks like girl to me.

 

[goldie1234]

I have two broody hens! I want some OE hatching eggs, lol!

 

[chanamarie]

.Talk about counting your chickens before they've hatched...

I currently have 6 Ameracauna eggs and 6 Olive Egger eggs in the incubator. These will (hopefully!!!!) be our first chickens. Both were bought from local hobby chicken owners, so no guarantees what will actually hatch (the first are a pale blue egg and the OE are a khaki green color). I am also very interested in getting some Welsummers in the new future (still trying to find a local source for them).

So, I've been reading around this thread and I'm very interested in breeding egg layers with those beautiful greens and green-blue speckly eggs (do you think I'm getting ahead of myself??).

How would I go about doing that, especially as my possible future birds are of probably mixed parentage?

 

[Susieq2015]

I have some up and coming olive eggers I hope to post pics of their first eggs this summer...then I might have every color

 

[Susieq2015]

.Talk about counting your chickens before they've hatched...

I currently have 6 Ameracauna eggs and 6 Olive Egger eggs in the incubator. These will (hopefully!!!!) be our first chickens. Both were bought from local hobby chicken owners, so no guarantees what will actually hatch (the first are a pale blue egg and the OE are a khaki green color). I am also very interested in getting some Welsummers in the new future (still trying to find a local source for them).

So, I've been reading around this thread and I'm very interested in breeding egg layers with those beautiful greens and green-blue speckly eggs (do you think I'm getting ahead of myself??).

How would I go about doing that, especially as my possible future birds are of probably mixed parentage?

Generally brown and blue make green, and darker the brown you use the darker the green you'll get. Speaking of egg color of course.