The Olive-Egger thread!

[Illia]

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Araucanas do not have beard and muffs. Your parents are Easter Eggers, not Araucanas.

The offspring should have had a 50/50 of no tail or tail, and a 50/50 of tufts. No beard or muffs should have been in the offspring.

 

[8ROYALS]

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Araucanas do not have beard and muffs. Your parents are Easter Eggers, not Araucanas.

The offspring should have had a 50/50 of no tail or tail, and a 50/50 of tufts. No beard or muffs should have been in the offspring.

I got eggs from someone...I took their word for it. thanks for the info. so I guess my eggs will not be olive green...lol

 

[Illia]

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Oh, they will be! Don't worry.

Easter Eggers are still known to lay blue or green eggs, so long as you know yours have the genes to or already do, you're fine - You'll get Olive Eggers.

 

[8ROYALS]

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Oh, they will be! Don't worry.

Easter Eggers are still known to lay blue or green eggs, so long as you know yours have the genes to or already do, you're fine - You'll get Olive Eggers.

could she have meant Ameraucanas? She made sure to say they were not easter eggers. Now I feel bad because the lady I gave one roo too I told her wrong...She really wanted him anyway, but I hate to lie to people even unknowingly. What do you think? I can possibly get some pics up

 

[Illia]

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No, they're Easter Eggers. Whenever people sell some birds and call them Araucanas, unknowing that they're not - They're Easter Eggers. Ameraucanas are only sold by breeders who know the difference. Also, by the sounds of your Olive Egger offspring, the original Easter Egger parents are of colors Ameraucanas do not come in.

To obtain Ameraucanas, you'd need to research and look for a true breeder, weeding out the Easter Egger sellers.

 

[TNBarnQueen]

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"regular" genetics doesn't work so well with olive eggers..some folks have had success with following known genetic calculators, but the problems come in when you use EEs since there is no way to know their genetic makeup.

The basics are, though: use a green/blue layer crossed to a dark brown layer line. My experience has been the darker brown the line, the darker olive green the babies will be. It has taken two generations for mine to get nice & dark olive. THe first cross hens I breed BACK TO a very dark brown layer rooster, and THAT offspring lays the darkest olive green I have.

Thank you for the input Wynette....I raise TW horses and work a lot with genetics there but Chickens are a whole different ballgame! but i enjoy the scientific side of this sort of thing. At least you do not have to wait 4 years to see what the results are from your breeding as with horses!!

 

[8ROYALS]

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No, they're Easter Eggers. Whenever people sell some birds and call them Araucanas, unknowing that they're not - They're Easter Eggers. Ameraucanas are only sold by breeders who know the difference. Also, by the sounds of your Olive Egger offspring, the original Easter Egger parents are of colors Ameraucanas do not come in.

To obtain Ameraucanas, you'd need to research and look for a true breeder, weeding out the Easter Egger sellers.

Ok cool. I brought the eggs from a BYCer. can't remember who would have to look in my old messages, but will...thanks again and thanks for not being rude...some people are and can be. Plus I know it gets old having to explain. I went back and couldn't find anything, but the auctions up know say EE x BCM It could have said that all along and I just misread. They are pretty, so that is what I have...I can live with that.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Oh, they will be! Don't worry.

Easter Eggers are still known to lay blue or green eggs, so long as you know yours have the genes to or already do, you're fine - You'll get Olive Eggers.

could she have meant Ameraucanas? She made sure to say they were not easter eggers. Now I feel bad because the lady I gave one roo too I told her wrong...She really wanted him anyway, but I hate to lie to people even unknowingly. What do you think? I can possibly get some pics up

If you forgot what you had, that's not your fault. They could very well be Ameraucanas, most of us assume when people don't know that they have, they really have EE's. Do you have a pic of the hens? I have a Blue Copper Roo over a Lav Ameraucana and a Black Ameraucana. I have an OE cockerel that looks like a Blue Ameraucana with red feathers coming out of his wings and back. Your descriptions sounded like my cockerel. I'll take a picture tomorrow. Describe your EE's or Ameraucanas a little more and/or upload some pics. That may help us identify what you have.

 

[8ROYALS]

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could she have meant Ameraucanas? She made sure to say they were not easter eggers. Now I feel bad because the lady I gave one roo too I told her wrong...She really wanted him anyway, but I hate to lie to people even unknowingly. What do you think? I can possibly get some pics up

If you forgot what you had, that's not your fault. They could very well be Ameraucanas, most of us assume when people don't know that they have, they really have EE's. Do you have a pic of the hens? I have a Blue Copper Roo over a Lav Ameraucana and a Black Ameraucana. I have an OE cockerel that looks like a Blue Ameraucana with red feathers coming out of his wings and back. Your descriptions sounded like my cockerel. I'll take a picture tomorrow. Describe your EE's or Ameraucanas a little more and/or upload some pics. That may help us identify what you have.

I will try to get some pics tomorrow and post them. I thought I had more pullets, then figured it wll out. The are very pretty and really active.

 

[8ROYALS]

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If you forgot what you had, that's not your fault. They could very well be Ameraucanas, most of us assume when people don't know that they have, they really have EE's. Do you have a pic of the hens? I have a Blue Copper Roo over a Lav Ameraucana and a Black Ameraucana. I have an OE cockerel that looks like a Blue Ameraucana with red feathers coming out of his wings and back. Your descriptions sounded like my cockerel. I'll take a picture tomorrow. Describe your EE's or Ameraucanas a little more and/or upload some pics. That may help us identify what you have.

I will try to get some pics tomorrow and post them. I thought I had more pullets, then figured it all out. The are very pretty and really active.

They all have black shanks. Almost all have black nails a few with lighter bone. All have like a walnut/three line rose comb. One roo doesn't have any feather sticking out around his head. One of the pullets is all black. one pullet is dark grey with darker grey/black lacing. Four roos have Red on head, cape, hackles with black every where else. One roo is red same as others but blue where the others are black. Two pullets have same coloring as the four roos without the hackels.