The Olive-Egger thread!

[SteveH]

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I agree with evonne , I think she's dominate white with black leaking .

 

[SteveH]

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You certainly are doing a great job of developing a nice strain of barred Olive Eggers . Me likes 'em LOL .

 

[cottagegarden]

That down color on the spotted one is really interesting-and it seems like it will looks like dinahmoe's white OE will when it feathers out.
You will have to keep us updated. If the chick was splashxBl copper it would have been splash or blue. Looks dom. white.
JamesA-I remember when you posted pics of the splash hen mom and you were kinda sensitive to being told she wasnt a splash.
This is an good example of test hatching to see genetic makeup. It looks like they are breeding consistently to that pretty white with black specks.
Look forward to the eggs!


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Oh I just found this post.Glad your chicks are doing so good.I wanted to add that the mom was supose to be a splash ameraucana but I think she was a dominent white.She is white with black spots all over(I think the spotted chick is going to be like her mom).The daddy is a very nice feather legged blue copper marans(Now owned by Bargain) from very dark eggs so you should have some good olive eggers with that bunch.

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Oh I just found this post.Glad your chicks are doing so good.I wanted to add that the mom was supose to be a splash ameraucana but I think she was a dominent white.She is white with black spots all over(I think the spotted chick is going to be like her mom).The daddy is a very nice feather legged blue copper marans(Now owned by Bargain) from very dark eggs so you should have some good olive eggers with that bunch.

Isn't she cute though? As soon as I brought them home everybody "claimed" her. (hoping it's a "her") She looks like somebody poked her with a sharpie in random places. I've never seem that before.

 

[dinahmoe]

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Isn't she cute though? As soon as I brought them home everybody "claimed" her. (hoping it's a "her") She looks like somebody poked her with a sharpie in random places. I've never seem that before.

this is what my olive egger looked like when she was little.

 

[Goose and Fig]

Dinahmoe- do you have a pic of her when she's older? They look almost identical- but mine has a few more spots like that.

 

[dinahmoe]

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the only othe rpicture i have is the ones i posted earlier-she is on the previous pagepost 284 i think.

 

[halo]

I just LOVE those barred olive eggers! Hope they end up laying olive eggs for you.

 

[onthespot]

Two are laying already this spring. These are not their eggs, but they are from a black sister that was from the first eggs I hatched from the original hen. The hens laying now are just a tad lighter than these, but still are definitely olive, not khaki. This pic is of the "extreme half dozens" that I auctioned off a week or two ago. The eggs from the barred pen are more green and less brown-reddish looking like the ones in the row to the far left.

 

[Hambone]

Great thread.