The Olive-Egger thread!

[alicefelldown]

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My Marans and EEs are on strike so this is everything from the new olive girls, the old olive girl and some tan layers:

 

[Happy Chooks]

Beautiful! Love that speckled olive egg!

 

[momofthree]

forgive me if i am asking a questin that has already been answered, i have skimmed through, but i am so not understanding the genetics

I have two EE roos, both with pea combs but only one with the green legs, the other has yellow legs. I have two Welsummer hens....if those girls' eggs are fertile, will those chicks be olive eggers?

 

[hunterjumper999]

I have a pen of 4 EE's , all pea combed hens that should start laying by september and I have an EE roo, a BCM roo and a Cucko Roo. who'd be better to cross in with them.

FWIW the hens are all lighly colored, with one blue/red .

 

[Happy Chooks]

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They could be. With the EE's being roosters, you don't know for sure that they are carrying the blue gene. It's likely as they have pea combs. The only way to find out is to test hatch. Any that hatch with single combs will most likely not be olive eggers. Any that have pea combs have the best chance of being olive eggers.

 

[cottagegarden]

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My Marans and EEs are on strike so this is everything from the fridge:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/14631_egg-bounty.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/14631_dark-olive-brown-eggs.jpg

AWESOME!!

 

[Wynette]

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If you are wanting olive eggers, you'd have to use your BCM roo over the EE hens.

 

[alicefelldown]

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If you are wanting olive eggers, you'd have to use your BCM roo over the EE hens.

Or the Cuckoo to try and get some sexlinked/barred olive ones. I'm fuzzy on that exact 'recipe' but Onthespot has lovely ones.

 

[Wynette]

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If you are wanting olive eggers, you'd have to use your BCM roo over the EE hens.

Or the Cuckoo to try and get some sexlinked/barred olive ones. I'm fuzzy on that exact 'recipe' but Onthespot has lovely ones.

The Cuckoo is a Marans? Sorry - if the Cuckoo's a Marans, then yep - you can use either Marans. You need one breed (either hen or roo) that is of a green or blue-laying breed, and the other then must be a dark laying breed.

 

[LaSombra]

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My Marans and EEs are on strike so this is everything from the fridge:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/14631_egg-bounty.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/14631_dark-olive-brown-eggs.jpg

Those eggs are gorgeous!!!