The Olive-Egger thread!

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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Blue/Black/Splash genetics will hold true, regardless of breed.

Sex linkage with barring only works with a solid rooster over a barred (cuckoo) hen, not the other way around. If you cross theses boys to solid hens, you will get barred and solid bird in both sexes.

 

[sgtmom52]

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Blue/Black/Splash genetics will hold true, regardless of breed.

Sex linkage with barring only works with a solid rooster over a barred (cuckoo) hen, not the other way around. If you cross theses boys to solid hens, you will get barred and solid bird in both sexes.

Thanks! I have both pure Ameraucanas and Ameraucana x OE's in my bator right now. I think I'm going to move the OE's to my other bator for lockdown to make sure I know who is who when they hatch!

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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I'll try and get some better pictures..those were snapped last night around 11:00..

 

[Medicine Man]

whoops, nevermind...i didn't know i wasn't on the last page.

 

[babyrnlc]

I have an olive egger, or I thought so. Her eggs we a dark green, olive. They seem to be getting lighter and less speckled. Is this considered olive?

Here are the eggs (the brown ones are my dc hens)

Here she is:

 

[jeremy]

She's a very pretty bird. Her eggs look more like a sage color than olive, which I think is lovely. She's a Sagegger!

If you were to cross her back to a male with the dark egg gene her daughters would give you a richer olive egg, if that's what you're after.

 

[livin-green]

A Sage-egger!

 

[Muggsmagee]

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I like it!

 

[babyrnlc]

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LOL, I have the first sagegger. They used to be dark and olive. I did not realize they changed the color they lay. Will she change back? I actually like this color better. She still has the dark brown spray on speckles lol.

We aren't gonna breed her. We just want eggs, don't have a roo at all, but I have been calling her an olive egger, cause they used to be olive lol.

 

[jeremy]

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LOL, I have the first sagegger. They used to be dark and olive. I did not realize they changed the color they lay. Will she change back? I actually like this color better. She still has the dark brown spray on speckles lol.

We aren't gonna breed her. We just want eggs, don't have a roo at all, but I have been calling her an olive egger, cause they used to be olive lol.

Hm, it sounds like she's just run out of her Marans "paint" then, maybe? After she molts and her production slows down (or stops), when she does start laying again you should expect the eggs to be back to their normal olive color.

Do you have pictures of the eggs she initially laid?