The Olive-Egger thread!

[alicefelldown]

I'm going to be changing some of the pens around this weekend - would anyone be interested in ordering some of my second generation olive layers? I know it's late in the season and I'd need a few weeks to be 100% on fertility, but I'd like to know if it would be worth changing their pens around. Please PM me so we don't clog up the thread. Thanks!

The eggs sold would be the greenish-olive ones, and the chicks hatched would lay the dark khaki olive color.

 

[smoothmule]

Oh those are such gorgeous eggs! I have some of my own in the incubator, good thing you don't live nearby....

 

[hencackle]

Wow, 122 pages! Forgive me for not reading the entire thread before posting my question, which is:
Does anybody have a photo of their Wheaten Ameraucana x Wheaten Marans pullet? I'm interested in the type of Wheaten color this cross produced, if it is similar to the photo shown on post #1181.

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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There are a couple of us working on Wheaten Olive Eggers, but I don't think I've seen any out there yet. I may be wrong.

I'm still months away from having them, but I hope to have chicks come spring time!

There would be a lot of similarities in a Wheaten Olive Egger and that photo, but I believe those were made using Salmon Faverolles, so they would be a bit different.

 

[Illia]

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I don't have such, but I will be making such in a month from now.

 

[smoothmule]

I have a Wheaten Maran hen and my rooster is a true Araucana. He's a poorly marked BBR color, I think anyway. Here is a chick from that cross. I think it's a pullet but not sure yet. She is red on the outside and blue underneath and there is some blue coming out on her neck.

This first photo isn't very good, it was taken inside with poor lighting. The head photo's were taken out in the coop with daylight. She's getting lighter and more blue showing. It's kind of like red hair with a blue undercoat, weird but cool. I don't see any patterning yet but she's still in juvenile feathering. She has just a hint of a muff and a little muff on each side. The rooster is clean faced or I would think she has tufts.

 

[wildorchid053]

all my ee's are laying light blue.. didn't get any olive eggs.. too bad i moved from los angeles to ny.... i would love some

 

[hencackle]

Illia--Please keep me in mind when your pullets are old enough to start showing their wheaten color and PM a photo. I'm curious whether it will lean towards the Marans' wheaten coloring or the Ameraucana's lighter version.
None of my wheatens are old enough to lay, so I'll be waiting until Spring to make my crosses.

PhiladelphiaPhlock--I referred to the photo of the Faverolle X because I thought the pullet's coloring resembled my Marans' coloring. And what a beauty she is.

Thanks for your responses.

 

[Illia]

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Good point. I'm actually always curious as to why Wheaten Ameraucana girls are so different from other Wheatens.

 

[jeremy]

I'll be working on a Wheaten Olive Egger project next year too! I tried to start mine this year but couldn't get any Marans eggs to hatch!

So for now the project has been put on hold. I've got the Ameraucana's I need though, they're beautiful.

My guess would be some of the resulting OE chicks from the cross would have a tendency to look more like either sire. Those that favored the Marans would be darker, those that leaned more towards the Amers would be lighter. I think both versions of the color are beautiful.