The Olive-Egger thread!

[Illia]

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Do you have any other Wheaten Olive Eggers? I've been wanting to try this for a while. By fall my Marans should be laying...

I have a Blue Wheaten Am I've been breeding with a Blue Wheaten Marans for a while, if you're interested I could get you some eggs. Since all I have are 3 W/BW Am's and 3 W/BW Marans females though, I'm not using the Marans girls for it and only one Ameraucana girl for it, as the other Ameraucana girls are being used for a more important project. Fertility is pretty good though! I'm getting good reports all the way from New Jersey.

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Do you have pics of the wheaten chicks? I am about to set some along with BW ameraucana eggs and need to know if I should cage the eggs so they don't get mixed up. Only one of my wheaten marans is feather-legged, so I should get some clean legged chicks.
Those wheaten marans eggs are so dark- I can't wait!!!!

 

[happytxchick]

Got my first OE egg today. It is very pale, but a beginning! I have more OE babies in the brooder along with BCM babies to improve egg color for next year!

Shown at bottom! Other eggs are from black Aussie, EEs, RIR, and Barnie:

 

[Illia]

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Do you have pics of the wheaten chicks? I am about to set some along with BW ameraucana eggs and need to know if I should cage the eggs so they don't get mixed up. Only one of my wheaten marans is feather-legged, so I should get some clean legged chicks.
Those wheaten marans eggs are so dark- I can't wait!!!!

The Ameraucanas shouldn't be clean faced.

That's how you tell them apart.


Well, hatch ended. 1 blue Olive Egger, 1 black Olive Egger, ( none tufted or barred

again ) 3 W/BW/SW Olive Eggers.

happytxchick - Congrats! You sure that isn't just an EE egg? That's pretty pale, but I hope it darkens for you.

 

[Maggizzle35]

Beautiful eggs. I get beautiful colors too but some bg and olive colored eggs started showing up and I'm not sure how I'm getting those colors but I would think it's my americanas. I would love more information about this.

 

[Illia]

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It would be from your Easter Eggers.

True Ameraucanas don't lay green eggs (and there's no I in the name) - It's just something hatcheries/feedstores tell their customers.

The greenish eggs are a result of crossing a blue layer and a brown layer.

 

[happytxchick]

Positive...she was the only one at POL besides my Wellie...I know everyone else's eggs by sight. I was a bit disappointed, but at least it's something to work with!

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Do you have pics of the wheaten chicks? I am about to set some along with BW ameraucana eggs and need to know if I should cage the eggs so they don't get mixed up. Only one of my wheaten marans is feather-legged, so I should get some clean legged chicks.
Those wheaten marans eggs are so dark- I can't wait!!!!

The Ameraucanas shouldn't be clean faced.

That's how you tell them apart.


Well, hatch ended. 1 blue Olive Egger, 1 black Olive Egger, ( none tufted or barred

again ) 3 W/BW/SW Olive Eggers.

happytxchick - Congrats! You sure that isn't just an EE egg? That's pretty pale, but I hope it darkens for you.

No- my OEs don't usually come out clean faced. I'm using BW Am roo over wheaten marans hens.
Are they the same yellow down as wheaten Am chicks?

 

[Maggizzle35]

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It would be from your Easter Eggers.

True Ameraucanas don't lay green eggs (and there's no I in the name) - It's just something hatcheries/feedstores tell their customers.

The greenish eggs are a result of crossing a blue layer and a brown layer.

Ok, so if I have some that lay beautiful blue eggs, I would need to breed them to a rooster of a brown egg layer? I'm just trying to wrap my head around this sorry if I sound really stupid. I have one that lays beautiful pink eggs, she is a black Ameraucana or Easter Egger as they call them, thanks for the spelling too. I think out of all my hens, I like those the best. I was given an beautiful silver laced wyndott that I really like too. Thanks for sharing information, I really appreciate it.

 

[happytxchick]

@Maggizzle - you've got it. If you mix a blue egger with a brown egger you'll get a green egg. The darker the brown involved, the darker the green that will be produced from the offspring.