The Olive-Egger thread!

[ihvpower]

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Rita, That first baby is so cute...LOL

 

[Newyorkrita]

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I don't think they are that well known yet to be sold commercially.. I think the average customer would not like the color or the price of an Olive Egg.

I sure do though!

I sure do like the color of the olive eggs too. I love the really dark ones.

 

[Newyorkrita]

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Rita, That first baby is so cute...LOL

I just hope the blue one is a girl. I am resigned to thinking that black one must be a boy.

 

[ihvpower]

sending girl-vibes your way! She actually DOES look like a girl to me..

 

[desertdarlene]

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I don't think they are that well known yet to be sold commercially.. I think the average customer would not like the color or the price of an Olive Egg.

I sure do though!

Yeah, it's expensive enough to get brown eggs. That's strange because brown eggs used to be cheaper when I was a kid way back when.

 

[smoothmule]

Newyorkrita,

They are adorable, thinking the first is a roo and second is a pullet. I can't see the pullets comb well enough to say it's a pea comb (wil llay the colored eggs) but the rooster is a straight comb and slim chance he will have the colored egg gene.

 

[haTHOR]

i have been waiting so long for my potential OE girl (barred pea comb!! and she was born from a blue egg, not blue-green) to lay...finally have been getting eggs this last week. little olive ones, then today a BIG one, a little lighter green but with two yolks.

and the first prospective daddy is a non-standard ameracauna (wheaten, but born from a blackXwheaten...so not sure how he will breed out), also born from a sky blue egg. hoping to get a female that lays a bright rich green from them...

i'm also going to breed her (and their offspring) to my FCBM male.

daddy (ronald)

look what a gentle sweety he is...

mama (esmerelda)

we should get sex-linked babies that will either lay a nice olive egg or can be bred to my fcbm roo if we need to go darker.

i also have 3 cuckoo marans hens laying nicely speckled dark eggs i will be breeding to that roo i have pics of above, again for sex-linked OE offspring.

wish me luck!

 

[smoothmule]

Best of luck! Love Esmerelda!! What color were her parents? I would Love to have a barred hen with a pea comb, wow
I know that a barred hen to a solid rooster produces sex links so the hens would not be barred so wouldn't her mamma need to be solid and sire a barred? I don't have a barred rooster right now but I'm planning to keep a barred, rumpless roo if he would have a pea comb that would be out of my Araucana rooster and maran hens. Then breed that barred rooster to a solid hen of the same breeding that is pea combed and rumpless, then couldn't I get hens that are barred, pea combed and rumpless?

 

[haTHOR]

esme came from a pen where a white EE roo and partridge EE hens were running with ameraucana black hens and a wheaten ameracauna roo. someone may know better than me but my guess is that the white EE roo was "carrying" the barred gene...i guess white covers lots of stuff that is able to be passed to the next generation. ??? not sure if she came from an eexee cross or the ee roo X black ameraucana hen though.

 

[ihvpower]

This is the first OE to pip and I am guessing that she will be out in about a half hour.