The Olive-Egger thread!

[nordahlbunch]

Hi everyone!
I am now officially the owner of 2 olive eggers. They are 2nd generation from Wynette. They are 6 days old and I'm hoping for a blue.
Can anyone tell if they will be blue or black? They both look like they will be blue to me.

Picture of olive eggers and BC Marans:

pictures of 1st olive egger:

and 2nd olive egger:

 

[Imagesoart]

Rita~ My Olive eggers are a BCM roo with a Americauna hen. The BCM roos grow and show a comb and waddles really fast. I hatched out four and two were roo's. If that is what is happening, then you have a roo.

Here are pictures of my first three Olive eggs. Her first one is in the back, it is mostly teal with a misting of brown. Her third egg is the one closest! (The Americauna's is the big teal one!) My Olive eggers are only just shy of 5 months!

 

[Wynette]

Nordahl - you have two blue olive eggers! KEWL!

Imageso - BEAUTIFUL eggies!

 

[Newyorkrita]

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I'd have to see a picture. Does it have a single comb?

I figgured I would take weekly pictures as they got older so I will be taking pictures on Saturday when they are two weeks old.

I really have tried to learn as I have read entire threads here like this entire Olive Egger Thread, entire Marans and Easter Egger and Ameraucana, Welsummer and other entire threads. Has taken me a long time to get thru them all but I did learn alot. So I know I want them olive eggers to have pea combs, I know easter eggers and olive eggers have pea combs. Learned that from reading but sorry to say, I don't understand the difference in straight comb or pea comb as far as what it would look like on a young chick.

I will just have to post pictures after I take them. Its just that this is so noticably different. I have two olive eggers and the other chick shows nothing that is noticeable to me at this stage.

 

[Imagesoart]

Thanks! For me it is all about color! I have one that lays the teal eggs, two that are dark brown, two that are light brown. Now the Olive eggers..... I have two white leghorns that are about three weeks old in the brooder. So that is the white. I am trying to hatch some more Americaunas.

So........ Any other colors? Do Welsummers lay a different brown then the Marans? I mean really, how long have chickens been around, you would think that someone would have developed different colored eggs!

 

[Newyorkrita]

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Pretty eggs. My olive eggers are from hatching eggs from Wynette so they are second generation with a BCM dad. I have three chicks. The two olive eggers and one real BCM. The three chicks are in a 20 gallon long aquarium as their starter brooder so I can watch them easily (chick TV) and here in my home office just afew feet away from my computer . All I have to do is look over and I can pick out the one olive egger with the comb starting right away. It is so noticable with the three of them standing there. The other olive egger, the blue one (comb on the black olive egger) looks really different but I can't describe it. This is such a learning experience for me with my very first chicks.

 

[nordahlbunch]

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Yes! Thankyou Wynette.
One of the BCM tried to crow last night. I thought it was hurt so I rushed over and saw it crow again! It was a long drawn out cheeeep with the head arch and it flapped its wings when it was done! Crazy!

 

[ihvpower]

gorgeous babies!!!!!! I can't wait till mine hatch!, I have 5 1 week olds and 5 in the bator plus 12 FBCM AND A BLUE COPPER MARANS DUE TO HATCH IN 2 DAYS!!!

 

[buckabucka]

I really have tried to learn as I have read entire threads here like this entire Olive Egger Thread, entire Marans and Easter Egger and Ameraucana, Welsummer and other entire threads. Has taken me a long time to get thru them all but I did learn alot. So I know I want them olive eggers to have pea combs, I know easter eggers and olive eggers have pea combs. Learned that from reading but sorry to say, I don't understand the difference in straight comb or pea comb as far as what it would look like on a young chick.

Okay, take what I say with a grain of salt, because I really know nothing, but I remember reading on here that sometimes birds with straight combs lay olive eggs. So it seems like it may be worth waiting to see what color all of them lay. I am really hoping to raise my own olive eggers next year, with my Easter Egger rooster and either my Welsummers or Black Copper Marans.

 

[ctaynton]

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Here is a picture of my olive egger chick that looks like yours. I guess mind has a little more copper. Thought they resembled each other though. I crossed an Americauna Roo with Blue Copper Marans. What did you cross to get yours? I'm curious what is will look like as an adult chicken. Any thoughts on whether this is a roo or pullet?