The Olive-Egger thread!

[aart]

your green layer has brown genes and blue genes = green eggs,

Keep in mind the shell(blue or white) and coating(brown) genes are separate strings.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

Yes good points… I’m sort of stuck on projects… a raccoon devastated my flock, he is dead now, we still have no idea how he got into the coop… we could not find his entry point.

He killed my only rooster. So no breeding experiments for me.

I do however have surviving brown and green egg laying hens.

So I am going to go over flock goals and go from there.

 

[Iluveggers]

Don’t know if anyone is still posting here. I’m only on page 17. I bought an olive egger from Ideal. She has no muddy or beard, but barely a hint of waddles. She has what looks like a modified pea comb, but bright orange legs (not greenish or grey). Guesses on whether she’ll lay green? She’s about 20 weeks so hopefully I’ll know in the next month or so…Here’s a closeup of her comb. By her patterning she looks to be part Welsummer…it would be amazing if she lays green speckled! Fingers crossed…

 

[CVHaga87]

Don’t know if anyone is still posting here. I’m only on page 17. I bought an olive egger from Ideal. She has no muddy or beard, but barely a hint of waddles. She has what looks like a modified pea comb, but bright orange legs (not greenish or grey). Guesses on whether she’ll lay green? She’s about 20 weeks so hopefully I’ll know in the next month or so…Here’s a closeup of her comb. By her patterning she looks to be part Welsummer…it would be amazing if she lays green speckled! Fingers crossed…
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What was the outcome?

 

[Iluveggers]

Thanks for the reminder! She lays a shiny olive egg! Occasionally speckled but usually just super shiny!

Oddly enough, my Easter Egger lays a green egg also. Hers is a light olive, more dull with dryer texture. Good that I can tell them apart!

Pic below:
Back egg is my olive egger. Front egg is my Easter Egger. Blue egg is my McMurray “Americana”.

 

[XAshleyX]

This is my girl who lays green eggs. I'm assuming she's an olive egger because she only lays green eggs lol

 

[gimmie birdies]

I hatched out 2 eggs from meyers
Below from a blue egg.

Below from a dark brown egg.

 

[Backyard Divas]

My olive egger laid her first egg today (at 23 1/2 weeks old) and it is gloriously olive. Yay!! Her first egg is a decent size at 22oz and looks army green in person. (Looks a bit more bronze in the pictures.)

Her parents were a BCM X CCL. The CCL lays a really green egg, and the roo was from a good dark line.

Mom's green egg is behind the olive one.

The mom's egg seems to have a green bloom to it (see the drop below), but she is a CCL from a reputable seller so I don't doubt her heritage.

Anyway, I'm thrilled with the results of the cross and can't wait to sample the egg!
Link to the cross "is it a hen or roo" history post https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/future-hens-or-roos-fbcm-x-ccl.1553319/

 

[Backyard Divas]

This is my girl who lays green eggs. I'm assuming she's an olive egger because she only lays green eggs lol

Nice green egg!

 

[NorthwoodsChick]

This is my girl who lays green eggs. I'm assuming she's an olive egger because she only lays green eggs lol

Could be black Isbar- they lay green eggs.