The Olive-Egger thread!

[hcammack]

I have an olive frizzle bantam egg in the bator now wonder what will come out I got it in a swap.

 

[evonne]

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OH!! OH!! OOOHHHH!!!!!!!! i LOVE that green speckled egg...
i want to get welsummers for speckled eggs and i wanted to see if i could eventually get a speckeld green layer.. now at least i've seen one... thanx for posting that.... not to figure out how to get me one that lays that color...
does the hen that egg came from get the speckles all the time??

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

I'm sooo ready for chicks now!

It looks like the genetics separated pretty much as expected. Now for the long wait to see what shades of eggs they actually make!

Were these 9 all from the same parents, or do you have a couple different ones? I'm guessing a single barred roo and and barred hen would give you about these results. They're not quite sex-linked, but when making a cross like that, any solid chicks would be pullets, and all the cockerels should be barred. It's just those few barred pullets you have to sniff out!

Good work.

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[BeardedLadyFarm]

Painfully cute!

So you used a blue Ameraucana roo over a Cuckoo Marans hen? Looks like it worked. Did you get 2 pullets and 2 cockerels, or is one of the blue ones a pullet also? I can't see it's wings for any barring yet.

I'm assuming their eggs will be just as lovely as the other F1 eggs you have posted on here. My olive egger pullet is the same cross but with reversed parentage. I'll be curious to see if the eggs are the same. Good work!


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[Dread Pirate Roberts]

Two more weeks and hopefully I'll be a member of the Olive Egger Club! w00t!

These are BCM/Ameraucanas and the blue egg in the middle is an F1 while the light olive eggs are gonna hatch out F2s.

Anybody wanna venture to speculate on what color the eggs will be from the F2s?

I will need to cull and select for pea combs, right?

ps, abbreviating "Olive Egger" to "OE" kinda doesn't work because people will see "Old English".

 

[cottagegarden]

So you used a blue Ameraucana roo over a Cuckoo Marans hen? Looks like it worked. Did you get 2 pullets and 2 cockerels, or is one of the blue ones a pullet also? I can't see it's wings for any barring yet.

Sorry, I went back and labeled that pic is both Ameraucana and Olive Egger chicks. At this moment in time there are some Cuckoo Marans in with my blue Amer
but he seems to favor his Amer girls so not all the OE eggs were fertile. I also have some CM hens in with a black
Amer roo and more eggs in the bator!!

I'm assuming their eggs will be just as lovely as the other F1 eggs you have posted on here. My olive egger pullet is the same cross but with reversed parentage. I'll be curious to see if the eggs are the same. Good work!

My first F1 was Cuckoo Marans over blue Ameraucanas hens now I switched it around, but they are all related or similar good color so I would expect the results to be
about the same shade of olive on the sex-linked F1's.​

 

[cottagegarden]

OH!! OH!! OOOHHHH!!!!!!!! i LOVE that green speckled egg...
i want to get welsummers for speckled eggs and i wanted to see if i could eventually get a speckeld green layer.. now at least i've seen one... thanx for posting that.... not to figure out how to get me one that lays that color...
does the hen that egg came from get the speckles all the time??

They come and go, the speckles. Both those eggs are from the same hen. Dad was a Marans, so you dont know what you are dealing with egg wise, but
I would say if you wanted speckles find a Marans or Wellie hen that lays pretty polka dots and just add your blue/green Roo genes=fun!​

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

Oh wow, they do look identical! That's what leg bands are for I suppose...

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Sorry, I went back and labeled that pic is both Ameraucana and Olive Egger chicks. At this moment in time there are some Cuckoo Marans in with my blue Amer
but he seems to favor his Amer girls so not all the OE eggs were fertile. I also have some CM hens in with a black
Amer roo and more eggs in the bator!!

I'm assuming their eggs will be just as lovely as the other F1 eggs you have posted on here. My olive egger pullet is the same cross but with reversed parentage. I'll be curious to see if the eggs are the same. Good work!

My first F1 was Cuckoo Marans over blue Ameraucanas hens now I switched it around, but they are all related or similar good color so I would expect the results to be
about the same shade of olive on the sex-linked F1's.​

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

If you crossed olive or green eggers back to a BCM (assuming he has dark genes) you should get some nice dark olive eggers, and yes, expect those from the pea combed chicks.

We need a different abbreviation I suppose. Have the OEGB people abbreviated their abbreviation to OE? Sound Lazy to me. ha ha.

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[hipeatall]

Olive Eggers! Oh my... how fun!!!
Yes, I think I'm gonna have to try this... and I know my little boy will get a kick out of doing an experiment like this... we can make our own Olive Green Eggs... he might even be able to make a 4H project out of it

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I have 7 lovely Easter Egger hens that lay a lovely array of light blue, blue green and green eggs. I'm thinking, if I've read this thread (and I read the entire thing!) I just need to get me a lovely dark brown egg roo... like a Marans roo! I would like to get more Golden Cuckoo Marans anywho... I only have one GCM hen currently and she is such a sweetie. Also, from reading this thread, I'm thinking that perhaps a Golden Cuckoo Marans roo with my EE hens would allow me to sex the chicks at hatch. Oh my how cool would that be!
Well, now I'm hoping that someone who knows for sure would comment and let me know if I'm right about this (yea!) or if I, ummm... perhaps... need to reread the thread...
Thank you thank you! Amy... future Olive Egger owner... hopefully!