The Olive-Egger thread!

[aart]

Quote: Um, no, not necessarily. EE's (easter Eggers) usually have green legs, and it's one of the first clues that a bird is not an Araucana or Ameraucana. But EE's can have black legs too. The pink egg statement in the description is definitely a clue that they are not Araucana or Ameraucana.
If you read the fine print in most the hatchery descriptions, you'll find that and other clues too.
There's one hatchery that claims to have John Blehm's Black Ameraucana stock....can't remember which it is tho, or if it's true...he is a long time, highly regarded breeder of Ameraucana's.

The 'name' Araucana or Ameraucana is used prolifically by hatcheries, farm stores, and the many people who don't know any better.
The only way to get a true pure breed Araucana or Ameraucana is to find a reputable breeder.
The reputable breeders are rare, they are expensive, and chicks are most often sold as straight run.

Now an EE can lay a blue egg, and if you put her under a dark brown laying breed cock you'll get olive eggs......
......or under any brown laying breed to get greens of varying shades out of the resultant pullets.
Finding good dark laying breed birds, male or female, can be just as hard as finding a true pure breed Araucana or Ameraucana.

 

[cupofJoelene]

Yeah, my pure Ameraucana's have slate colored legs. No green.

 

[chickengr]

now when I think about that my rumpless araucanas have slate legs too. but I have been told that is a fault.

 

[cupofJoelene]

Got our first olive egg from one of our gals today!! This is when I really wish we could upload pictures on mobile.

 

[ArtLady1]

Gladys and Pip, they should start laying any day now. Hoping for the olive eggs I was tod they would produce... Gladys is also a rumpless. No one was expecting it but I love it! (Hatched these girls myself, 1st time hatching eggs

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[oregonkat]

I have a genetics question. I am currently awaiting chicks from under my Black Copper Marans hen. She is sitting on two Araucana blue eggs and lots of BCM eggs. My roo is a BCM and if I get an olive egger hen from this first generation and my roo mates with that hen, what is the risk of inbred issues and what are they? Hope that makes sense. Thanks for the input.

 

[aart]

I have a genetics question. I am currently awaiting chicks from under my Black Copper Marans hen. She is sitting on two Araucana blue eggs and lots of BCM eggs. My roo is a BCM and if I get an olive egger hen from this first generation and my roo mates with that hen, what is the risk of inbred issues and what are they? Hope that makes sense. Thanks for the input.

Not much risk of weird mutations, at least for few generations, with parent/offspring crossings.
Sibling crossings can be a bit more risky.
Research 'line breeding'.

 

[chrissyr]

So isnitnpissiblento make an F2 sex linked oe?
I'm thinking the male be a non sex linked oe (am x marans) over a dark layer hen who is barred.
Aren't some pendescencas varieties barred

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Geez I got a ton of roosters out of my olive egger hatch. Any ideas on good advertising so maybe someone will want them as a pet/breeder instead of dinner?

 

[aart]

Geez I got a ton of roosters out of my olive egger hatch. Any ideas on good advertising so maybe someone will want them as a pet/breeder instead of dinner?

Not really.....chances are serious breeders have enough of their own cockerels for their OE breeding program.

Please be honest about their parentage...... better they fill someone's empty belly than someone being disappointed using them as sires.