The Olive-Egger thread!

[Newyorkrita]

So here are my chicks. They were 3 weeks old Saturday. First two pictures the same bird. I am hoping she is a pullet.

Second bunch of pictures is one I am sure is a boy. Straight combed but out of the same batch of eggs. His wattles are already starting to grow. He is the biggest one by far.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

I finally have an olive egger! She's the only one I kept from this summer's hatching. I think she's quite lovely. In the sunshine she glows iridescent green and blue and has these copper flecks at her neck. This picture was made in the shade, so you can't see how shiny she really is. Daddy was a black ameraucana and mama was a welsummer. I can't wait to get an egg!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Lot's of wellie olive egger crosses showing up!

I'm hoping for speckled olive eggs from mine!

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Me too. I do love those speckledy eggs.

 

[NicoleRM]

Hey all! Just jumping in here because I'm about to start myself an olive-egger project. I've got a small group of EE pullets that have started laying the most gorgeous blue eggs, and I'm picking up a trio of french black copper marans this weekend. My husband thinks I'm nutty, but I am SO excited!

 

[Illia]

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Join the club! My mom probably thinks something funny of me because I've got a whole recipe, schedule, and chart down for how I'm doing my Olive Eggers. I've got various colors of Marans, both bird and egg, and various colors of Araucanas and Ameraucanas, both color and egg, so I'm working on a BUNCH of different crosses to see who makes what.

I can't wait until this spring when they're fully feathered and laying.

And then when they do, I'm moving right onto F2's - Blue x Olive, Olive x Olive, and Dark x Olive for a super dark egg.

 

[Wynette]

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Rita...don't shoot, but I think #1 is a cockerel. Comb being that red so young....dead giveaway.

 

[Newyorkrita]

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Rita...don't shoot, but I think #1 is a cockerel. Comb being that red so young....dead giveaway.

Oh heck I was so hoping it would be a girl. If its not then I have two roos from my two olive eggs that hatched. Yikes. Going to have to try again then. I just love the color of those olive eggs.

 

[abellchicken]

I also think that the #1 chick is boy. When you have a pea comb, if it has three rows of bumps it is a boy. That is what it looks like in the picture any way. Sorry

 

[Newyorkrita]

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I can't tell how many rows of bumps it has. Only thats its a pea comb and the other is a straight comb. When I started with these clicks, I didn't even know that much. I had to ask here about that. That is why this is such a learning process for me. My first chicks, my first chickens even. And really, I would rather know than keep thinking it is the wrong thing. I have just got to get better at this (telling the boys from the girls). At least I will be able to sex them right away on my next hatch as I have red sex links in the incubator now. But I want those olive eggs.