The Olive-Egger thread!

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The first picture are the wheaten / blue wheaten amerucanas that I had bred with my Wheaten Maran. The second picture is my Oliver egger from the cross but she lays brown eggs.

 

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4 weeks is about the max sperm will stay viable.
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That is not correct if hen was not laying up till recently, 4 weeks is only if she is consistently laying in that time!

I have hens that were all together with Roos around 12 weeks maybe maybe a bit less. Of course with winter and them still coming to point of lay many were not laying yet or just starting to! These hens were separated from all Roos around 12 weeks ago! Some started laying a month or so ago and some just now and yes fertile eggs even though away from Roos for 10 to 12 weeks!

 

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There was not any other rooster. I had sold the one in the first picture with some of the hens at least 6 months before I had started collecting eggs. And even if he was the father it would have been an amerucana.
I always thought if you had bred purebred maran and amerucana you would get 100% olive eggers with no brown eggs.
Am I wrong on this? Cause somehow I ended up with a brown egger.

 

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There was not any other rooster. I had sold the one in the first picture with some of the hens at least 6 months before I had started collecting eggs. And even if he was the father it would have been an amerucana.
I always thought if you had bred purebred maran and amerucana you would get 100% olive eggers with no brown eggs.
Am I wrong on this? Cause somehow I ended up with a brown egger.

That is correct.
Could your Ameraucana are not pure, tho plumage looks pretty good, legs look a little light.
http://ameraucanaalliance.org/photos.html

Might want to check in here with clearer, better lit pictures of your Am's.
There are more people there with experience than here.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1541575112755530/

 

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I got them from a breeder from that site along with the some Lavenders from John Blehm. I feel they were purebred but something went wrong somewhere.

 

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I got them from a breeder from that site along with the some Lavenders from John Blehm. I feel they were purebred but something went wrong somewhere.

Do you know which bird the blue egg came from that hatched the brown layer?
How close did you control and track your breedings?
Any EE laying blue in your flock?

 

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No. I kept 3 wheaten hens and hatched all spring into summer. Then I sold all the amerucanas and olive eggers but the one hen. I was just wondering if I was understanding the genetics correctly and to see if anyone else has had a similar experienced.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I have learned they both have to carry the blue gene so like my F-1 cockerel does not carry
the blue gene

 

[FaerieChicken]

First bred, hatched and raised ever Olive Egger, see her pretty pullet eggs!

Her name is Scrambles



Blue egg gene roo (Dad)


Scrambles as a couple days old, with her Surrogate Momma Hen waiting for me to put her back....


Scrambles learning "how to" and independence!








Her momma layer was a Welsummer hen! I am sorry I don't have a Now Pic on this puter at work, I will have to upload in a little bit....

I am so happy that it worked out nicely, because you never know when trying to make olive eggers if you are going to get a nice colored egg or a brown one!

 

[10AcreChick]

First bred, hatched and raised ever Olive Egger, see her pretty pullet eggs!

Her name is Scrambles



Blue egg gene roo (Dad)


Scrambles as a couple days old, with her Surrogate Momma Hen waiting for me to put her back....


Scrambles learning "how to" and independence!








Her momma layer was a Welsummer hen! I am sorry I don't have a Now Pic on this puter at work, I will have to upload in a little bit....

I am so happy that it worked out nicely, because you never know when trying to make olive eggers if you are going to get a nice colored egg or a brown one!

So I have BO and EE 1 yr hens and roosters. I put 49 eggs into the incubator last week, and three of them looked the same exact green as your picture above, FaerieChicken. So I scroll down, and I'm like, I know that hen! I got a handful of "Ameracauna" chicks from a friend last summer, though I knew they were EE cause the hatchery he got them from does NOT sell Ameracauna. One of them was smaller then the others and looked JUST like the pic above where Scrambles is learning independence (they were like 6 weeks old when I got them). I mean, spitting image of my hen! Could I already have an olive egger? I'm pretty sure the three eggs I have in the incubator are crossed with the EE roo (the BO was separated at the time), but there is no way for me to know if she is the one laying the green egg. I could figure it out before hatch day though, separate her out....hmmm....

Will a BO roo and an EE hen produce an olive egger? Side question!