The Olive-Egger thread!

[77horses]

This may sound like a dumb question...but are "green" eggs the same as "olive" eggs?

 

[Goose and Fig]

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No- olive eggs come from a parent with the blue egg gene and the "paint" brown egg gene- like from a marans, welsummer, penedesenca, etc. You can use a green-egger to make olive eggers if you have one of the dark egg breeds.

 

[77horses]

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No- olive eggs come from a parent with the blue egg gene and the "paint" brown egg gene- like from a marans, welsummer, penedesenca, etc. You can use a green-egger to make olive eggers if you have one of the dark egg breeds.

Ohh, OK.

Thanks!

I have green-eggers then, because I crossed a Splash Cochin (cream colored eggs) with a black Ameraucana (bluecolored eggs), and got green colored eggs. Just wanted to make sure so I wasn't posting pictures of green-laying chickens on a olive-laying chicken thread.

 

[buckabucka]

wow! I love cottagegarden's platter of eggs! Nice chicken dish, too!

I hope to have olive eggers someday. Meanwhile, I can't wait for my dark brown layers to give off an egg!

 

[yazzymon]

77 Horses - do take a picture so we can see the green here compared to the ollve - Please!! Thanks!

 

[Wynette]

cottagegarden - that's a beautiful egg platter! The variety is just gorgeous!

BlaBauve - holy cow, I've never had any that laid that light of an egg - it's gorgeous, though! On my monitor, it actually looks sky blue! GORGEOUS!

 

[kathyinmo]

I have only one Olive egger, Miss Olive. I have lots of chickens, and she has consistently been my best layer. Here is her egg today, still very dark, and she is now a year old .... top left corner. She came from Wynette's eggs, and she is a beautiful blue girl.

 

[Wynette]

Wow, Kathy - she sure HAS kept her egg color! The olive eggers seem to be awesome layers, for sure!

I'm uber excited about one that just started up this past weekend - she's a completely different breeding than my girls in the past have been, and I was really hoping for a true olive, not the brownish olive that I'd been getting. Well....her first 2 eggs are definitely olive! I'm so excited - they are medium olive, which "should" mean that, bred to my Marans roo, the offspring should lay a nice, dark OLIVE! YIPPEE!!! I'll get some pics posted of her eggs soon!

 

[Illia]

That's not Olive, that's black.

And it is GORGEOUS. I recall seeing you post her first egg a while ago, yes? And it was super-uber dark olive, yes? That egg is what inspired me into getting F2 and F3 Olive Eggers with super dark eggs.

Something to be very proud of Wynette!

 

[kathyinmo]

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I have Miss Olive penned with Ameraucanas now, like we talked about. I think I will throw this week's eggs in the bator!

You have the greatest Olive Eggers! I just gotta get some more from you! They are just the prettiest birds, besides being great layers! I know you have to work hard on them, cuz you sure produce beauties!