The Olive-Egger thread!

[aart]

What does the offspring of a French Black Copper Marans roo over a Cream Crested Legbar look like.

• Sex-Link? (yes?)
• Crested?
• Feather-footed?
• Color?

Sexlink, should be as far as I know this it the 'rule:
If you put a "solid" or non-barred rooster over a barred hen, the chicks will be sex linked. The males will be black with a white dot on their heads at hatch.

The others are a crap shoot(?), I don't know enough about genetics to venture a speculation. I might have examples come spring, as I acquired a BCM cockerel and 2 CCL pullets this year.

 

[LilJoe]

Sexlink, should be as far as I know this it the 'rule:
If you put a "solid" or non-barred rooster over a barred hen, the chicks will be sex linked. The males will be black with a white dot on their heads at hatch.

The others are a crap shoot(?), I don't know enough about genetics to venture a speculation. I might have examples come spring, as I acquired a BCM cockerel and 2 CCL pullets this year.

You don't need to hatch them If you don't want to. I am hatching next spring (probably both FBCM×CCL & CCL×FBCM), too.

 

[aart]

You don't need to hatch them If you don't want to

Oh, I plan to, wouldn't have bought those breeds otherwise and waited 4 years to get them local. Have been doing OE with Wellsummer over blue laying EE for 3 years.

 

[LilJoe]

Oh, I plan to, wouldn't have bought those breeds otherwise and waited 4 years to get them local. Have been doing OE with Wellsummer over blue laying EE for 3 years.

I would be doing this with EE, but mine are laying white.

 

[belindaschicks]

Can anyone who got their OE from Meyer hatchery tell me how large your OE is. Or what the average size of an OE is.

 

[pioneerchick816]

Yes. I got three from Meyer. The black Copper Maran line one I received is very good size girl and is all black. The other two are from the cream legbar line and are a medium size. They all three are of egg laying age one ended up laying a brown egg,but that is always a chance with F1. One of my legbar line (the green egg layer of course) died about a month ago unfortunately. I’m pleased with the olive egg color of the one I have left. I would order again if I get the chance. I’m going to breed the black one with a black Copper Maran I currently have to get an F2 darker egg

 

[ChuSayBok]

These are the eggs I got 3 days ago.. girls slowed down just a little, but it's the most I've gotten since June last summer and so many shades of green… I really love the greyish olive one. Not sure who laid it yet, but most of my black hens that I know are a collective of Marans/Araucana/Australorp/other are laying olive eggs. The photo made them look lighter than they really are, but I have a hen or two laying darker green eggs than this I think.

 

[LilJoe]

I can't wait to hatch my olive eggers!
BCM × Legbar
Legbar × brown egg laying Olive Egger

 

[aart]

Legbar × brown egg laying Olive Egger

That should be interesting, make sure you keep them separated and banded/marked.

 

[LilJoe]

That should be interesting, make sure you keep them separated and banded/marked.

The two roosters are separated with different hens.

The olive egger I've got is mostly Bcm, but she has some Araucana in her.