The Olive-Egger thread!

[dekel18042]

I have an Olive Egger roo that I'm trying to decide if I am going to keep. If I bred him over my Easter Eggers, what are the chances that the offspring could lay an olive egg? I purchased Olive Egger eggs for hatching so I could have some olive eggs, but only 1 hatched and it's a rooster!

My numbers may be off but if your hens lay blue eggs you should get half blue egg layers and half olive eggers, assuming the hens have two blue egg genes. I'm in the same quandary I have mostly Easter eggers and a few Ameraucanas. I have a young cockerel whose mother was a black copper marans. Since we had a fox problem when the eggs were in the incubator, and that was the only marans egg in, I was really hoping for a pullet. It seems the fox targeted my dark egg layers so now I'm considering keeping this guy so I can make more olive eggers. I'm sitting on the fence about it.

 

[RockelleP]

My Olive egger just came home with all my chicks starting my first flock since I was a kid living at my parents! She will be part of a very diverse rainbow flock!
She is supposedly cream legbar and ameraucana mix.
I wish o had a pic from the front she is cute cute!

 

[Lucky Lemon]

My numbers may be off but if your hens lay blue eggs you should get half blue egg layers and half olive eggers, assuming the hens have two blue egg genes. I'm in the same quandary I have mostly Easter eggers and a few Ameraucanas. I have a young cockerel whose mother was a black copper marans. Since we had a fox problem when the eggs were in the incubator, and that was the only marans egg in, I was really hoping for a pullet. It seems the fox targeted my dark egg layers so now I'm considering keeping this guy so I can make more olive eggers. I'm sitting on the fence about it.

Thanks for your response. I guess I'm just going to keep holding onto him and see if he behaves and gets to stay around! LOL

 

[seventreesfarm]

I have had bad luck with my oliver roos. I used to save back the pretty ones with lineages that should have good color production, but they all grew up to be jerks. It's like they were manic and angry.
Hens from the same crosses were fine though. It's a bummer, because they look so cool, but I stick with marans roos for my crosses now. I also have found that crossing a green/blue egg gene roo over dark eggs hens makes lighter eggs than the reverse.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have had bad luck with my oliver roos. I used to save back the pretty ones with lineages that should have good color production, but they all grew up to be jerks. It's like they were manic and angry.
Hens from the same crosses were fine though. It's a bummer, because they look so cool, but I stick with marans roos for my crosses now. I also have found that crossing a green/blue egg gene roo over dark eggs hens makes lighter eggs than the reverse.

I have an F-1 Cockerel taking him to EE BR and the one F-1 OE

pullet I have

 

[morbius18]

I have had bad luck with my oliver roos. I used to save back the pretty ones with lineages that should have good color production, but they all grew up to be jerks. It's like they were manic and angry. 
Hens from the same crosses were fine though. It's a bummer, because they look so cool, but I stick with marans roos for my crosses now. I also have found that crossing a green/blue egg gene roo over dark eggs hens makes lighter eggs than the reverse.

Ive had the same issue with mine too. I had 2 black copper colored olive egger roos. They were the terror of my run. I couldn't wait until they were bigger to kill them.

 

[kmpcfp]

I have an Olive Egger Roo that is about a year old. He has always been docile, but he was the lowest roo on the totem pole when I got him in February, so that could explain it.

My broody is about to hatch out the first set of eggs from this rooster. 4 eggs are a light blue-green from 2 easter egger hens from a hatchery. The roo is an f2 cross originating as ameraucana/marans. I have another 9 eggs in the incubator set to hatch in a couple weeks.

What color eggs can I expect from these chicks? I am guessing any color is possible, correct?

Hopefully the offspring throw the same volume off eggs their mamas do!

 

[aart]

I have an Olive Egger Roo that is about a year old. He has always been docile, but he was the lowest roo on the totem pole when I got him in February, so that could explain it.

My broody is about to hatch out the first set of eggs from this rooster. 4 eggs are a light blue-green from 2 easter egger hens from a hatchery. The roo is an f2 cross originating as ameraucana/marans. I have another 9 eggs in the incubator set to hatch in a couple weeks.

What color eggs can I expect from these chicks? I am guessing any color is possible, correct?

Hopefully the offspring throw the same volume off eggs their mamas do!

Yep!

 

[seeingeyepuppy]

Here is my olive egger and her eggs... I believe her father was a Easter egger and her mom was a Rhode Island Red (she hatched out of a brown egg)

 

[otakalhasas]

Here is my olive egger and her eggs... I believe her father was a Easter egger and her mom was a Rhode Island Red (she hatched out of a brown egg)

She's a real looker! Is the green egg on the bottom hers"