The Olive-Egger thread!

[8ROYALS]

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I don't know why they are so big. I think one of them has dust orb in just the right spot. LOL

 

[poultrycrazy]

Thanks newlyweds and illia. I guess the breeder that i got them from contacted other people who have bought birds from were these have come from and the lady is repudable for selling crooked toed chickens.

I am really upset i have to get rid of them but it would probably be the best for them to not be surrounded by other roosters that they want to kill so they can hopefully settle down a little bit.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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That's what I was thinking when I saw your pictures - What kind of hens can I put w/ him? I want to get some Olive Egger hens!

Breed that roo with your EE hens...or an dark egg layer.

Okay, thanks.

 

[Muggsmagee]

I didn't wait for "her" to dry and fluff out....I am so excited. This is my second Lav OE to hatch! Mom is a pure Lav Ameraucana, dad is a Blue Copper Marans.

 

[jeremy]

She looks gorgeous already, but how is it possible that she's visually Lavender with only one parent carrying the Lav gene?

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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Pretty color Muggs,

I'm guessing it's actually a blue chick, but would be carrying the lavender gene. Unless your roo is carrying a lavender gene, which isn't likely.

Regardless, save a pair of these split to lavender birds, and mate them together. THEN you'll get some real lavenders. I especially want to see this with your Wellie x lav am crosses!

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Yeah- I was wondering that too. I had a big hatch of BBS Orps a few months back and all the splashes looked lav for weeks.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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This is the question that has been raised before. I don't know. Out of the same pairing I have about 7 or 8 Black OE's, and now 2 Lavs. Just like putting a lav and black together, you get splits...I don't know why these come out Lav. Maybe someone who better understands genetics can jump in on this. The BCM roo is from Whitmore Farm (I hatched him) and the Lavender Ameraucana hen is from John Blehm.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Pretty color Muggs,

I'm guessing it's actually a blue chick, but would be carrying the lavender gene. Unless your roo is carrying a lavender gene, which isn't likely.

Regardless, save a pair of these split to lavender birds, and mate them together. THEN you'll get some real lavenders. I especially want to see this with your Wellie x lav am crosses!

I'll post a pic of the older "Lav" OE. She is around 5 months old (tiny lil' thing)...I posted a pic of her at one month old, several pages back. Maybe we can get a better idea by looking at under feathers or wing feathers?

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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Pretty color Muggs,

I'm guessing it's actually a blue chick, but would be carrying the lavender gene. Unless your roo is carrying a lavender gene, which isn't likely.

Regardless, save a pair of these split to lavender birds, and mate them together. THEN you'll get some real lavenders. I especially want to see this with your Wellie x lav am crosses!

I'll post a pic of the older "Lav" OE. She is around 5 months old (tiny lil' thing)...I posted a pic of her at one month old, several pages back. Maybe we can get a better idea by looking at under feathers or wing feathers?

I'd love to see the other one too!

For genetics purposes, lavender behaves like black. And for the sake of argument your Blue Copper Marans roo is blue. So black x blue would give you blue and black offspring. (there will eventually be some copppering in the hackles I'd bet but that's besides the point now)

I'm willing to bet (an emu chick) that the two that aren't black are really just light blue. As they feather out, it will be easier to tell. Blue comes in lots of shades, and it's sometime hard to tell from lavender as chicks.

That said ALL of those OE's are carrying the lavender gene, they're just not showing it yet. The easiest thing to do would be to breed the black ones together. Then it will be obvious which chicks hatch out lavender. They would probably have a lighter egg color than the first cross, but it's hard to say. The genes could line up in a way that you get a darker olive egg... Regardless, you'd get some cool lavender mixes.