The Olive-Egger thread!

[texasgal]

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That is a beautiful egg!

Thank you! It's actually a shade darker than the others she has layed (she's been laying for about two weeks). She's the dominant hen, and a real take charge kinda girl .. I love her.

~tg

 

[Wynette]

Can you or anyone else on this thread provide some reference material--books, links, or the like--for newbies like me to read up on this stuff?? There have got to be some good resources out there to study this stuff. I've Googled a couple of times and have never gotten any really good info.

Thanks so much!!

I just recently got a book on genetics that was recommended to me by a long-time breeder friend. He tells me there are not many poultry genetics books out there, and that THIS one is the best to begin with. I'm at work now & don't have the book in front of me, but I'll post the title/author tomorrow!

texasgal - way to go, Sherlock! Some of my olive eggers' eggs change for months before they finally even out!​

 

[le neige homme]

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It looks to me like that's a pea comb which has been influenced by the single comb gene as well. In which case, it's not so much a "different" comb per se, it's just a little bit taller and more bubble-gummy.

 

[texasgal]

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It looks to me like that's a pea comb which has been influenced by the single comb gene as well. In which case, it's not so much a "different" comb per se, it's just a little bit taller and more bubble-gummy.

Exactly .. It's just definitely different than the "other" girls ...

 

[alicefelldown]

My olive layer's comb, it's very silly looking:

 

[MuranoFarms]

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She's cute! Mine has an odd comb too! lol

 

[Wynette]

Yup, mine all look like that, too. The cockerels' combs (at least those that I've hatched) are UUUGGGLLLY!!!! Take that girl's comb and multiply it by about 3 or 4. It's so bulbous, it sorta hangs to the side. EEK! Sad thing is, the boys are just huge monsters (which I love - never been a banty person) and their coloring is always so pretty & unique. But that comb....ACK!

 

[TurkeyMountainChickens]

I read in a chicken genetics book (I THINK it was Crawford) that the pea comb is only incompletely dominant to the single come. So, instead of your normal pea comb you get one with a larger central ridge. This seems to be more pronounced on the males.

 

[TurkeyMountainChickens]

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[sgtmom52]

I have 4 Olive Egger Cockerels that I am looking to give away BYC Auction and I have had a question about egg color genetics for these guys. They are first generation OEs from Cuckoo Marans hens covered by an Ameraucana roo. Am I correct in assuming that they would have both a blue and brown egg color gene? If they breed with a white egg layer would they produce either a blue or brown egg laying chick? And if bred with a brown egg layer would the chick lay either a green or brown egg? Are my assumptions correct? Are there any other possible combinations?

Thanks for any help.