The Olive-Egger thread!

[cottagegarden]

For my fellow Olive Egg Lovin pals-

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

Stunning!!!

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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Gorgeous Kristin!

She looks a lot like my OE pullet, who is a Cuckoo Marans roo on a Splash Ameraucana. What is this one "made of?" I need to come and see your birds so I can put in some requests for springtime!

Bailey

 

[Kansaseq]

Gorgeous hen and egg, both! Wow!

 

[smoothmule]

Soo gorgeous! I'm working on my own flock of beautiful egg layers and can only hope for such pretty hens and eggs. I have a smooth faced araucauna rooster and my hens are 4 ameraucana's, 3 cuckoo marans, 2 feather legged wheaten maran pullets and one black copper maran pullet. I can't wait till spring to raise a few to keep some of the pullets which I'll breed back to my araucana rooster for a fw more pullets then I'll bet set other than replacement hens or adding a new, special hen to the flock at times...

 

[Reinbeau]

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Beautiful hen and egg - I want some olive eggers!

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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Sound like you could get lots of great shades of olive, tan, or even pinky-plum eggs! Assuming your rooster is a solid color, you can also "make" sex linked olive eggers with your cuckoos, which is on my to do list whenever I move to the country and get some roos!

We will need pictures, of course.

 

[smoothmule]

That's the plan, all sorts of colors and shades of those colors. I haven't noticed much discussion here about crossing the lighter brown or white egg layers for colorful eggs, anyone getting some color from these crosses?

 

[smoothmule]

What does the roosters color have to do with it? Mine is a black breasted red.

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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When you cross a non-barred roo to a barred (cuckoo) hen you will get barred cockerels and non-barred (solid) pullets. They should be solid at hatch, and the boys will likely have a dot on the back of the head, from what I understand.

It sounds like yours would work just fine for making sex links. It seems like some of the weirder colors are coming from EE's crossed to dark-egg roos. I guess the EE genetics are already so variable, that you get a bigger range of results in the next generation. I'm just speculating here...

As for your white/ light brown crosses, they will give you more typical EE eggs. A white to blue cross gives you at least some blue layers, and a blue to light brown cross will give you at least some lighter green eggs. Every shade in between mint and dark olive seems possible. Even my 6 brown layers all lay a different shade, so their offspring would probably lay all sorts of shades, even with the same roo.