The Olive-Egger thread!

[jeremy]

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Is the roo pictured in your avatar the bird you are referring to?

If so, he looks blue to me, not splash. That could explain the black chicks.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Just when you think you have it down, they screw it all up.


I still have a new tan egg in my coop that I cannot figure out who is laying it. I go up to the coop frequently in hopes of catching the culprit. The only birds in there that could be laying it is the English Orps or the olive eggers. I really hope it's one of the Orps, because all my olive eggers were created using pure Ameraucana's. So if it's an olive egger laying it, then I have an Ameraucana in my flock that is not pure for the blue gene (and all babies have pea combs), and I have no idea how I'll figure out which one it is.

 

[jeremy]

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Just when you think you have it down, they screw it all up.


I still have a new tan egg in my coop that I cannot figure out who is laying it. I go up to the coop frequently in hopes of catching the culprit. The only birds in there that could be laying it is the English Orps or the olive eggers. I really hope it's one of the Orps, because all my olive eggers were created using pure Ameraucana's. So if it's an olive egger laying it, then I have an Ameraucana in my flock that is not pure for the blue gene (and all babies have pea combs), and I have no idea how I'll figure out which one it is.

Kelly, crack open your pure Ameraucanas eggs, if the blue inside shell color matches that of the outside you'll know your girls aren't carrying anything other than blue egg laying genes.

Theoretically at least, this is just one "simple" method I have read on determining which Ameraucanas could possibly be throwing green egg laying offspring due to a hidden brown gene.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Just when you think you have it down, they screw it all up.


I still have a new tan egg in my coop that I cannot figure out who is laying it. I go up to the coop frequently in hopes of catching the culprit. The only birds in there that could be laying it is the English Orps or the olive eggers. I really hope it's one of the Orps, because all my olive eggers were created using pure Ameraucana's. So if it's an olive egger laying it, then I have an Ameraucana in my flock that is not pure for the blue gene (and all babies have pea combs), and I have no idea how I'll figure out which one it is.

Kelly, crack open your pure Ameraucanas eggs, if the blue inside shell color matches that of the outside you'll know your girls aren't carrying anything other than blue egg laying genes.

Theoretically at least, this is just one "simple" method I have read on determining which Ameraucanas could possibly be throwing green egg laying offspring due to a hidden brown gene.

All my Ameraucana eggs are blue on the outside and the inside of the egg. But thanks for trying. Hopefully, it's a sneaky English Orp laying the new eggs. The English Orps are a month older than the olive egger girls.

 

[bigspringshatchery]

I was wanting to make a barred olive egger with my barred EE. She ha a pea comb and he does also. But she just laid Sunday night and its a mint green color kinda. If I breed her to a marans or him what color will the offsprings lay?

 

[livin-green]

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I may be wrong here, but if you got black chicks from that cross, than I dont believe your roo is genetically splash. He's probably blue. If he were splash, I would think all those babies would be blue.

I was thinking the same thing.

As for the olive egger roosters, it's really an unknown what gene's they carry. And since they don't lay eggs, it's harder to tell. I'm working with an olive egger roo, as an experiment, but my offspring aren't laying yet. (they are close though)

Halo & jeremy ~ Maybe that's my problem -- What I think is a splash is actually a blue...?? I had compared online photos of them and decided they must be splashes because they weren't dark enough all over to be blues. But I'm also on the Ameraucana thread asking about the possibility of a splash roo (the one in my avatar & the brother to the OE's daddy--both look just alike) and a blue hen throwing out a black, because the 6mo Amer. roo I have from them is SO dark. However, they have said on that thread that a *blue* could be really dark and hard to tell it's not a black...??

I'm getting more and more confused!

Happy Chooks ~ Well, poo. So I guess to darken the olive eggs if they need it, breeding him back to my FBCM hens may not do anything. Sounds like really the only sure way to do that is to breed hens back to roos where you know more positively what you've got. I'm thinking there's no reason to hang on to one of these OE roos, if this is the case. I'm somewhat limited on space and don't see any reason to create difficulties where they aren't worth it.

Thanks for your input, BYCrs! I'm going to go take new pics of all of them to post and let you guys tell me what you think I have!

 

[jeremy]

Post some pictures of your birds, we'll help you figure 'em out.

 

[babyrnlc]

Here is my girl that gives me olive eggs. Sometimes they are speckled.

 

[jeremy]

She's very pretty!

 

[bigspringshatchery]

Here arey eggs. One of these eggs are from Sunday and one today. Are they olive or just a green color? And for all the experts of I breed her to a marans what would the offsprings possibly lay? They are the same eggs just in different light took with my iPhone and flash