The Olive-Egger thread!

[2txmedics]

It would be nice if Im good to go...guess ll know in about a month....all I know is he is a BLUE SPLASH MARANS and her a EE

 

[livin-green]

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No, you won't know anything in a month...your EEs eggs must be hatched, then any hens from those chicks would be the ones laying the olive eggs ~ so at least 5 months to know if that combination would work. Just to make sure we're on the same page, putting a Marans roo over an EE doesn't change the color of the EEs egg.

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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Assuming your Marans roo is from a dark egg line, then yes this would work.

Assuming your EE's have pea combs (nearly all do) then select the chicks with pea combs to grow out. If you get any straight combs they will most likely be brown layers, and those will pea combs will likely be your olive layers.

 

[1 Bad Rotti]

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What kind of rooster u have has nothing to do with what color egg the hen that you're breeding him to lays. The only chance for an OE is from the chicks you raise from them.

 

[ihvpower]

Arhg! Still waiting for my Olive Egger pullets to lay their first eggs. The suspense is killing me..

 

[livin-green]

Okay, so here's two different versions of the same set of eggs (one on "sunny" setting & one on "shady" setting on my camera). Figured if you could see both, you might have a better idea of the true color. I think it's kinda' gray looking rather than olive.



[top L-R] Marans, OE, regular brown egg; [bottom L-R] Ameraucana, Ameraucana, white egg



My biggest question right now? ~ Do you guys think that future chicks from this roo/hen combination would lay this same color egg? I have about 15 Marans eggs to set in the incubator tonight, but I don't want to hatch more if they will all look like this...

The next question would be--how to fix this egg. The hen should be bred to a Marans, no? To increase the brown? I don't have any right now, but I plan to have Marans hatching eggs soon.

Edited to identify eggs

 

[Goose and Fig]

Your olives look similar to mine. I have 1/2 of my girls in with a wellie roo, and 1/2 in with the ameraucanas since the wellie coop is just too small. I'm guessing the ones in with the Am will probably lay something that would be comsidered an EE egg. Just hoping for a different shade than my other EEs lay. If you want darker olive you'll need one fo those marans roos you're going to hatch to grow up quick

 

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

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Last year I had 2 chicks hatch on St. Patricks day. I ended up naming them Shamrock, and Clover(There was also Poppy and Lupin, who were a couple days older!). Unfortunately they were not so lucky! Lost them in a dog attack.

 

[daps2000]

livin-green


THAT'S ONE GREAT LOOKING ROOSTER ON YOUR PROFILE PIC!!!

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Crossing over the Marans should darken the offspring's eggs.