The Olive-Egger thread!

[aart]

Quote: I'd say pullets then......cockerel would likely be showing much more color in comb and wattles by 7 weeks.

 

[kellybea73]

I'd say pullets then......cockerel would likely be showing much more color in comb and wattles by 7 weeks.

OH YEAH!!! I hope you are right. Someone asked me to post pictures back when they were 3 weeks old and said they were both cockerels. I am new to chickens and for me it was way to early to tell, but hoping they were wrong on at least one of them.

 

[kellybea73]

I found 2 more pictures I took in the past few days...

 

[Lucky Lemon]

I have 4 olive eggs going into lockdown tonight. Can't wait to see what they look like! (The eggs are so dark I haven't been able to tell if they are even fertile though, but I am hopeful!)

 

[otakalhasas]

I have 4 olive eggs going into lockdown tonight. Can't wait to see what they look like! (The eggs are so dark I haven't been able to tell if they are even fertile though, but I am hopeful!)

Good luck!

 

[kellybea73]

I have 4 olive eggs going into lockdown tonight. Can't wait to see what they look like! (The eggs are so dark I haven't been able to tell if they are even fertile though, but I am hopeful!)

Ekk! Good luck! I had a hard time candling my blue eggs, too.

 

[annabellaknits]

Okay that is what I thought you meant.  I am hoping the other one is a pullet.  That way I have one of each.  Thanks.

I'll be interested to see. I may guess there both hens. Mine that have Marans in them always get bright red big combs by that age??

 

[newlyweds]

I've been breeding OE chickens now for about 6 years, starting flock were a mix of Easter Eggers and Black Copper Marans. I then bred back to black copper marans hens and OE roosters for several generations. Right now my breeding rooster looks very much like a BCM but has a pea comb and beard. I have just about every shade of olive egg, speckles, dark, light medium. I love OE's they are so much fun.

I most bred for temperament and egg color. My hens are various feather colors, splash with gold, splash, black, blue, wheaten, blue wheaten. My previous rooster was blue birchen. I have 2 black birchen hens, but never got a blue birchen, love that color. Most have muffs and beards and feathered legs. Mine are also excellent broody hens. My very first OE hen I still have she was hatched in Sept 2010 (I keep records) You can see my rooster at the top right of the first photo. I do have a few BCM hens, and some other various breeds, but the majority are all OE's.

 

[BackyardMarana]

You have a nice flock there, newlyweds

 

[QueenMisha]

You have a nice flock there, newlyweds

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