The Olive-Egger thread!

[livin-green]

Awesome! Thanks for the info. on my combination. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they will be as pretty as you describe!

Also, thanks so much for resummarizing that F2 info. This is such a long thread to go through it you didn't start following it from the beginning! I see I really need to do some more research into what comes after this initial olive-egger cross.

Wish me luck on introducing this roo to his new hens! Hopefully they will take to each other quickly, and we can "get this show on the road"

Actually, until today, there has been another Marans roo in there, so I will have to wait at least 30 days before doing anything anyway--that should give them enough time to get acquainted, I hope.

 

[Kim_NC]

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I was wondering the same thing as I put a blue roo over my bard rocks to see if I get green... if it works, I want to darken her up with a wellsummer.

LovinMyPeeps, I've done that with Blue Ameraucana Roo x Barred Rocks. You get a sexlink (black or blue females, barred black or barred blue males). My pullets lay a sage colored green egg. Very pretty shade. Reversing the cross would give the same color eggs, but not sexlinked offspring.

Peachychick, if all of the marans roos' mamas laid about the same dark shade, then the results of crossing with Ameraucana hens (who also lay about the same shade of blue) would be about the same color of green eggs in their daughters. However, you would get variations in feather color based on which roo you used over which hens.

Also, offspring are going to get egg color genes from each parent, so crossing blue egg genes x brown egg genes will result in green layers regardless of which parent is which. Of course with EEs, you have a mixed bag of genes anyway, so the results are much less predictable.

 

[BLaBauve]

Does anyone have any eggs for sale?

 

[hipeatall]

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We got some from Patty (search byc name onthespot) and they are absolutely beautiful eggs! We can't wait for them to hatch!

 

[Wynette]

I sell F2 olive eggers; however, I do have a short list for them. Check my website for pics of my birds & eggs.

 

[JamesA]

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We got some from Patty (search byc name onthespot) and they are absolutely beautiful eggs! We can't wait for them to hatch!

My barred olive eggers are hatching today from onthespot.They are due tommorow but a few decided they couldnt wait.Even coming from California to Georgia they look like they are going to be a bunch of cutties by tommorow evening.I have a bunch of pips also.I'm so excited.

 

[BLaBauve]

Hey James. I ordered some from Patty too! Hopefully they will be here in a few days. I'm in Tucker, GA. Congrats on your peeps!

 

[JamesA]

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Well thanks neigbor.You will love her eggs.They are so pretty.Did you order the blue's or barred?

 

[BLaBauve]

Both

I'm very excited!

 

[smoothmule]

I have 5 eggs from my cuckoo maran hens that should hatch tomorrow. The roosters they were exposed to were 3 Ameraucana roosters and 1 Araucana rooster so I should have it covered and the roosters colors are all different. I can't wait and I'm sure hoping for at least 1 nice pea combed pullet. I'll know right off since they will be sex linked color chicks.