The Olive-Egger thread!

[jeremy]

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You DO know what packing peanuts are, don't you?

*thinks*... Kathy I do not need any more roosters! L0L. I don't even know how many I have right now!

All I do know is that I'm keeping 1 Del roo from Cynthia's eggs, his name will be Stewert, and 1 BW Ameraucana roo from Jean's, unnamed thus far.

You can however send me all the Blue Orpington pullets you want though. I'll cross them with my BW Ameraucana boy and the lovely little Olive Eggers that I'm going to get from The Warden (hint, hint.

) and make some gorgeous EEs/Olive Eggers.

Then I'll be set, sound like a plan?

 

[kathyinmo]

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I have it in writing! It's a done deal ..... you are getting my packing peanuts!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Wait a minute. I'm not building my 2nd coop, I'm building my 3rd coop. I forgot about the little coop I'm growing out my ameraucana's in. Of course, it really doesn't count as a coop.

 

[kathyinmo]

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Any way you look at it ..... you still need more coops!

 

[Lensters]

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Just one heck of a beautiful bird there. After looking at this picture a few times, I have decided that I'm going to make some like her. I have a Splash Copper Marans roo that crossed with the Black Olive Eggers should make a Copper Blue Olive Egger with very dark eggs. Since finding out about the comb to blue egg color linkage I think breeding F1s back to dark egg layers is very workable. Cleaning out the 50% without the blue egg gene can be done at hatch.

On a different topic I think that we need a little color chart, like the Ameraucana and Marans clubs have, for our Olive Eggers. I keep seeing people talk about making Olive Eggers with layers of light brown eggs and it is clear they don't understand what an Olive Egger is... olive (dark olive/drab olive) not aqua, nor light green, but dark brownish green eggs.

 

[kathyinmo]

I agree .... an Olive Egger color chart would be great! Hmmm, I wonder how we would go about that.

Good luck on that project, Lensters! The blues are very popular, and I think they are gorgeous!

 

[The Sheriff]

I think the new guy is black too. He is still damp so it's hard to tell. That's four hatched three not pipped. I still have hope.

Wynette thought these guys might be sticky because of low humidity and excess weight loss but they have pipped and zipped and popped out crazy fast and easy. Some of the ones who hatched today were the ones who lost 18% too!

Mary

 

[kathyinmo]

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I am finding that the more I "forget" about the humidity, the better my hatches are! Too much humidity (the last 3 days) makes sticky chicks. I have been allowing the last days to be less than my usual (60 - 65%) dipping below 50% at times. My chicks seem to pip, zip, and pop much quicker and cleaner.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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I am finding that the more I "forget" about the humidity, the better my hatches are! Too much humidity (the last 3 days) makes sticky chicks. I have been allowing the last days to be less than my usual (60 - 65%) dipping below 50% at times. My chicks seem to pip, zip, and pop much quicker and cleaner.

That's good to know, thanks Kathy. I thought my last SPPR was stuck in the shell because the humidity got too low after I pulled the plugs. Never thought it could have been from it being too high, it shot up to 80 when a bunch hatched while I was sleeping. He was zipped all the way, just couldn't get out. Glued in there really tight, I had to really work at it. You wouldn't even know it now. Can't even tell which one it was.

 

[The Sheriff]

I love your new signature Parole Officer Kelly!

Your new parolees are about ready to board the bus to your facility. They should arrive by lunch.