The Olive-Egger thread!

[texasgal]

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Oh good .. so when DH thinks that because I recognize voice and egg shape that I'm crazy ... I can tell him that me AND wynette are BOTH crazy ..

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Oh good .. so when DH thinks that because I recognize voice and egg shape that I'm crazy ... I can tell him that me AND wynette are BOTH crazy ..

And Kelly too.

 

[texasgal]

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Oh good .. so when DH thinks that because I recognize voice and egg shape that I'm crazy ... I can tell him that me AND wynette are BOTH crazy ..

And Kelly too.

Well, I personally think DH needs to tune-in ... he's missing alot! lol

 

[kathyinmo]

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IMO, you're already there.

Thanks, Kelly! But I'm really hoping for as dark of an olive shade as possible, before it gets unrecognizeable as olive! I really thought the black ones I mentioned above would be it, but I'm now thinking they won't. But it's okay, I now have younger stock to work with for the next generation!

I agree with Kelly, Wynette. You are already there! My beautiful Miss Olive lays the darkest Olive egg I have ever ever seen. Not only that, she is one of the most beautiful birds I have ever seen! YOU ARE THERE! I will have to get a recent picture to show you. You are an expert with Olive Eggers, Wynette!

 

[Wynette]

Awe...shucks....you guys re makin' me blush! Thanks for your kind words...I really needed them today.

 

[ruth]

These are the eggs I'm consistently getting. It's an old picture but the egg color hasn't changed. And, unlike the Marans, I don't see that the color changes depending on laying cycle. In other words, the hens that lay the dark green eggs lay a dark green egg every day all year long. But, like the Marans, it is a color on the exterior of the egg that can be scratched off or washed off.

 

[texasgal]

Funny book .. reminds me that when I tell people that I get a green egg, they almost always ask "Is the yolk green?"

Oh, and DS20's girlfriend told him the other day that she would NOT be eating any eggs from our place.. she doesn't want eggs that come out of a chicken's butt ??????????

(Only those magical appear-in-carton-eggs .. I guess

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He took some home anyway..

 

[Wynette]

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[thechickonthehill]

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Yeah, that one was NEATO! Looked like half from one egg and half from another egg, slapped together! That's the most fun of all, IMO, about breeding olive eggers (I just call mine that - my EEs lay very lt. green or blue, the olive eggers lay....olive...whether it be a medium olive, dark olive, or drabish olive), you just never know what you're going to get!

I have one "olive egger" that is 13 weeks old (at least she was bred to lay olive eggs, we'll see). Olive egger is such a mouthful that we just call her the "Oliver" to distinguish her from the EEs.

 

[le neige homme]

Has anybody used an Olive Egger rooster and/or see any merit to using one?

I have two, they look like a BCM and CM with pea combs, but I'm not so sure they have a useful place in a breeding program as opposed to just using a straight Marans or straight Ameraucana/EE in order to course-correct the genotype as needed.