The Olive-Egger thread!

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

<-- pretty much describes me right now!!


Okay so I wouldn't exactly call it olive... But maybe a Sage Egger?!!! From my bantam cochinXolive egger. Does it still count?!!

This one shows the actual color better.. Her mama's egg is the creamish colored one next to it..

The browns are from my only single combed girl (Picatta).. Of course the olive eggers are making me wait!!!

The color is a little washed out from the sun..

And this is Goldilocks that layed that pretty sage egg!! (haha and Picatta's head actually!)

 

[Wynette]

Oooh! A SAGE egger - that's way kewl! Pretty eggies!

 

[Maggizzle35]

Gorgeous Eggs, Nice work mother hens.

 

[newlyweds]

I love my OE's more and more each day, especially when one of them make me a first time with a broody grandma!!!! My 8 month old Single Comb OE Maisie hatched out 3 fluffy butts a few weeks ago, and I couldn't be prouder. She has a single comb and lays a medium brown egg, I wasn't sure if I would keep her or not, but now that she is a proven excellent mother, she's a keeper for sure. I hatched her from eggs from gvntofly05 back in August, she had only been laying a few weeks before she went broody.

Here are some pictures of little mama in action.

Since then I have 5 more broody's all with OE's eggies under them!!


ETA: I also wrote about her on my blog with more pictures.
http://www.newlyweds-blog.com/2011/04/21/a-broody-finally/

 

[poodlepill]

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Soooo darn cute!!

 

[Happy Chooks]

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How adorable. A good broody is definitely a keeper!

 

[EweSheep]

Lovely eggs, CrazyCat! I love a good sage egger!

Also, broodies are wonderful to have and easy on your electric bill and daily taking care of feeding and cleaning up, the momma does it for you.

 

[enggass]

Any guesses on gender? These are two OExWhAM chicks at 2 weeks old. Color sexing should be similar to WhAms... Thoughts?

 

[tls_ranch]

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Hi Steve,
I would guess just by feathering that the one on the left is a boy and the one on the right a girl. But that's just a guess
I have a few EE chicks that look very much like your two chicks. I'm raising them up for my sister.

Trisha

 

[admhotel]

Had to take some pics while the flock was out in the nice weather we finally got here. Wanted to show off my inspiration for a blue barred olive egger project I will be working on.

Is anybody else working on a project like this? I will be putting him over blue marans, blue ameraucana, and cuckoo marans to see what I get. I am hoping for blue, barred, muffed and feathered legs with probley medium Olive egg. I have blue ameraucana over cuckoo marans chicks in the brooder now that I want to cross in next generation.