The Olive-Egger thread!

[Muggsmagee]

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BA meaning Buff Ameraucana? If your EE hen already lays blue or blue-green eggs and you cross her back to a Buff Ameraucana roo, you will end up with blue/blue-green egg layers.

 

[Chicken Frenzie]

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BA meaning Buff Ameraucana? If your EE hen already lays blue or blue-green eggs and you cross her back to a Buff Ameraucana roo, you will end up with blue/blue-green egg layers.

WHOOPS! I mean BR- As in Barred Rock!

 

[Muggsmagee]

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This is a tough one. If your OE hens are from an EE parent with 1/2 blue egg gene and 1/2 brown egg gene, instead of a pure Ameraucana (or pure Araucana), they technically would already have 3/4 of brown egg laying genes. Crossing them to another light brown egg layer will make them close to 90% brown egg laying. (87.5%) You are likely to get brown eggs.

If your OE hens are from say a BCM and pure Ameraucana, crossing them to a cochin will result in 3/4 brown egg laying genes. The light brown egg genes from the cochin will affect the shade of green you get from the breeding, but I am pretty confident this combo will give you a green egg...just not a dark one.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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BA meaning Buff Ameraucana? If your EE hen already lays blue or blue-green eggs and you cross her back to a Buff Ameraucana roo, you will end up with blue/blue-green egg layers.

WHOOPS! I mean BR- As in Barred Rock!

You will likely get a light green or possibly brown/pink egg. The further you get from your blue egg gene, the more likely you are to get brown layers.

 

[buckabucka]

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That is exactly what I would like to try this summer, snowhunter. My EE Roo does have a pea comb, so I'm hopeful he has the blue gene. My lone hatchery BCM hen lays a very pale egg (as far as marans go), so I want to use one of my Welsummer's pretty dark speckled eggs.

I really hope to have an olive-egger someday!

 

[Goose and Fig]

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That is exactly what I would like to try this summer, snowhunter. My EE Roo does have a pea comb, so I'm hopeful he has the blue gene. My lone hatchery BCM hen lays a very pale egg (as far as marans go), so I want to use one of my Welsummer's pretty dark speckled eggs.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/47066_p1090004.jpg

I really hope to have an olive-egger someday!

That's a great wellie egg! I like the speckled olive eggs- hoping we see some here soon too.

 

[Illia]

Wow, that's a really nice Welsummer egg!

Well, it was rainy out, so I couldn't get the best photos, but here's an Olive Egger pullet of mine. She's rumpless, and half Gold Duckwing Araucana, half Wheaten Marans.

Another rumpless Olive Egger here, half Blue Cuckoo Araucana and half Black Copper Marans.

And yet another, this guy got the other 50/50 of being tailed. He's half Blue Cuckoo Araucana, half Black Copper Marans as well, but has a single comb. He's huge though! Pardon the ground, it is wet pine shavings. Looks like poo, but it's not.

Sadly though all my Olive Egger chicks so far are Araucana crosses, NONE have tufts. My only tufted cross is an Easter Egger cockerel. Most of the Olive Eggers have well feathered shanks, but the first pullet has clean shanks. My Wheatens are lightly feather-shanked, so the most I got out of them was a couple feather stubs on a cockerel. Also, all my Olive Eggers but two are boys. There's the pictured pullet and another blue, tailed pullet with a lot of gold-dusted mossiness.

It will be a while before I get to see their egg color.

 

[jeremy]

Illia, can I buy some Olive Egger hatching eggs from you in late Feb/early March?

I would love some of those Araucana crosses!

 

[Illia]

Sure thing.

The only thing stopping me right now is that my Marans are currently fertilized by my Shamo stag, and my Araucanas for Sex-Linked Olive Eggers are molting. Otherwise, I'm going to continue working on OE's with moderate to heavy feathered shanks, good plumage color (other than the standard blue/black) and hopefully some very good egg color, even the single combed birds will lay more than just a standard dark brown egg.

 

[8ROYALS]

I hatched out 9 of 14 eggs. My 'Olive Eggers' we half Araucana and Black Copper Marans. I got 5 roos and 4 hens. I gave one of the roos to a lady on here. Four of the roos had beards and muffs with 3 having BCM coloring. One other was red and blue with beard and muffs. The girls 3 have BCM coloring and 1 is all smokey blue/grey. They all have almost black shanks.They were hatched in August. They should start laying this week and all by three weeks.