The Olive-Egger thread!

[LaSombra]

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that delawarexEE is beautiful! Love her

 

[bigspringshatchery]

I wanna make a olive egger. So I know you breed a blue egg layer to say a bcm rooster. But what would happen if I breed my barred ee roo with a bcm hen? Would the chicks be barred and lay olive eggs?

 

[alicefelldown]

Only if they pass the O (blue egg) gene onto their kids. It's hard with EE's because you don't know exactly if the bird is O/o or O/O.

 

[Skittlez]

I did get my first olive egg today. My blue EE hen laid it. I have no idea of her actuall breed, I just grabbed her out of a bunch because I liked her blue color. I thought I would get a blue or green egg, but I got olive.

 

[Newyorkrita]

At 4 weeks not only is the comb larger than ever, but you can't miss the wattles he is growing. Then in the second picture you can see the copper color coming in at the back of his neck. It's been obvious since before he was 2 weeks that he is a boy

He even has the feathered legs of his BCM daddy.

Straight combed so wouldn't have made olive eggs anyway.

Here is the pea combed blue colored one where you can see the comb well. You guys told me last week it was a roo

I still have hope that it might not be

 

[Chickanmanfromarkansas]

Straight combed so wouldn't have made olive eggs anyway

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Actually it could still carry the gene for the green egg, and bred back to EE's could produce good olive eggs.​

 

[Newyorkrita]

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Actually it could still carry the gene for the green egg, and bred back to EE's could produce good olive eggs.

If it were a hen I would keep it. But I can't keep a roo anyway.

 

[LaSombra]

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Actually it could still carry the gene for the green egg, and bred back to EE's could produce good olive eggs.

my olive-egger has a straight comb

 

[Runalong]

The answer to my question may be somewhere in here already, but I just scanned about 30 pages of this thread and haven't found it.

Of the brown-egg layers that do not "paint" their eggs (i.e., not Marans, Wels, Penes, Barnvelders), which breed is the best layer of the darkest brown egg?

My preliminary research (and the egg color chart) seems to indicate that it varies greatly among within breeds; in which case, do you know of any breeders who are breeding lines specifically for a dark brown color?

I have BCM's and Ameracaunas, I'd like to add another brown egg laying breed to see what happens but I don't want to end up with light brown eggs.

I'm guessing it would be a line from one of these: BA, BO, Golden Comet, Red Star, RIR, Cinnamon Queen or Black Giant. Which of these breeds would most CONSISTENTLY lay dark eggs? Or did I miss a breed I should consider?

Thank you in advance!

 

[Darth Egger]

I suppose RIR is the darkest egg I've seen that wasn't actually a "dark egg".