The Olive-Egger thread!

[Happy Chooks]

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Interesting, thanks for your thoughts Wynette.

 

[Wynette]

Kelly, do you disagree? If so, let's chat on it! I LOVE pondering theories & learning!! And, my genetics knowledge is limited (though I'm working on it) - what I wrote is just what seems, to me, to make sense. I could be way, way off base!

 

[Illia]

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I thought I saw the first time you were selling Olive Eggers, they were Penedesenca, Easter Egger, Ameraucana, AND Marans all in one? Wouldn't that count as an OE x OE?

This was a chart I drew up a little while ago, my own little theories on the bottom of OE x OE as well as OE x dark and OE x blue

My opinion, OE x OE, with the little percent you get of actual olive layers, the eggs will become a more golden type color the further you go. But, after the first gen, I'm really not sure. I'd love to see someone's OE x OE creation's eggs though!

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Yeah, right................like I'm in any position to disagree with you.(or Illia for that matter)

My genetics knowledge is limited as well.

I do find it interesting to discuss different theories though. When my darn olive egger babies start laying, hopefully I'll have more to "discuss".

 

[onthespot]

Even in the first generation of OE x OE, you can select for the few homozygous birds for the blue/green gene, by test outcrossing to a single comb and retain only your homozygous breeders for your F2 project. You'd have all green layers, which should produce all green layers and from there out you could just concentrate on egg or plumage, or conformation, or leg color or all of the above.

 

[babyrnlc]

I have a question. My chicken lays olive eggs, but sometimes they are speckled and sometimes they are not. What is up with that? Is that normal. They look like the ones in the picture on the first page of this thread.

 

[Wynette]

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Yup, yup! All phenotype stuff that's easy to remove or add! For folks that are visual learners (like me), olive eggers are such a worthwhile project!

 

[Wynette]

thought I saw the first time you were selling Olive Eggers, they were Penedesenca, Easter Egger, Ameraucana, AND Marans all in one? Wouldn't that count as an OE x OE?

Illia, when I used the Penesenca (hen), I first bred her to a Marans (just for fun). So her offspring was Pene/Marans. Dark to dark. That offspring I bred to an Ameraucana, and considered THAT offspring to be the 1st generation olive. Then, those 1st gens I bred to a Marans roo. The whole thing got so muddled and I was getting offspring all over the map - ALL over. So, I poo-canned that line & sort of started over.

I like your chart...it makes sense!​

 

[newlyweds]

I am loving this OE to OE discussion. I currently have a couple of projects going on. I have 1 OE that I think has the perfect Olive Colored egg, more towards dark olive she is 1st gen (EE/BCM). I also have a pea combed OE rooster (EE/BCM) that I have bred to her and currently have the eggs in the incubator. I will keep all of the pea combed offspring and "hope" for some olive eggers. It will be a long process, but a fun one.
I am trying for some true breeding OE's.

 

[Wynette]

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