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You must have an excellent camera...I can never capture green or blue egg color in my photos.
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I Love them! Thank you very much!
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Thank You!
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I'm about to get my operation going again soon...but in the meantime, I have a couple of cockerels in the city that you're welcome to...

This is an F1 from Opal and the same baby-daddy as yours...
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and this is the first generation of my project, the offspring of Beatrice and her unrelated mirror, both B1 Olive Eggers...
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They were both moulting here and have more copper now. I'm just sure they're going to start crowing before I can get them set up at the new place so they need to go.
 
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I LOVE the green egg with speckles!!! Please tell me you blow them out and use them for Christmas decorations!? That way you can keep them always!

Yes I do!
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My second 18 pack is almost full and I STILL cant bring myself to actually crack one open!
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Who knows if the roosters even doing a good job! I think until I can get a grip they will all be blown out, then hopefully I'll set some. thennnnn....
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still not be able to break one??! Pathetic, I know!


And Yes I do have a good camera! Its the Canon SX210(The black colored one). Not just the regular digital, It zooms like crazy! I get the best shots using the zoom to my advantage, and holding the camera away farther!
 
Hey, Olive-egger fans! I've been out of touch for a bit...busy with chicks & ducklings, then the tornadoes hit our state bringing power/internet outages and plenty of volunteer work to be done! But, I'm back to working on my hobby--a rainbow egg basket! I have a question about my Olive-egger roo. He is the cross of a pure splash Ameraucana roo and a FBC Marans hen. Doesn't that mean that he has at least one blue-egg gene? I'm concerned because his comb keeps getting bigger & bigger!

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Obviously, not a pea comb. If I cross him with some various brown and white egg layers, do you think I will still have a 50/50 chance of a blue/green layer in the females?? Week after next, I'm setting a dozen Ameraucana eggs I have ordered, and I was going to set some of these to fill up my bator. I don't particularly need brown or white layers, so just wanted to see what you guys all think--in case I'm wasting my time! Thanks in advance!
 
I had a boy with a BIG floppy comb like that, actually flopped to one side.. Ameraucana/BCM. Crossed him over a bantam cochin and ended up with an awsome sage colored egg(pictured a couple pages back!) 50% had pea combs (and I'm still waiting on eggs from 2 girls!)

You might not get any olive eggers but I think you'll get some awsome colored eggs!

ETA a pic: Gigantor when he was 6 months old.
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Thanks, CCnCLady! That's what I was going for ~ knew I wouldn't get Olive-eggers from that combo, but wanted to make sure there is at least some chance of getting some "Easter-egger" type hens. I want to add some other pretty shades of green to my egg basket!

Any others with this experience? Being that he came from a true Ameraucana roo, even though he doesn't have a pea comb, he has to have at least one blue-egg gene, right? Meaning he is only heterozygous for the blue egg gene ~ thus the 50/50 chance. I'm figuring correctly here??
 
I have a couple of 3 week old that were supposed to be f2 OEs - expecting a Dark Olive egg. They are a cross between OE hens and a Welsummer Roo. BUT, 2 of the 3 that hatched have what looks like will be Single Combs, not Pea Combs. Based on what you're saying I may get something interesting color wise from them? Not just a Welsummmer colored egg? Hey, maybe it will be a speckled greenish something egg - my goal is just a variety of colors as well... Thoughts from you OE experts appreciated...
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Thanks, CCnCLady! That's what I was going for ~ knew I wouldn't get Olive-eggers from that combo, but wanted to make sure there is at least some chance of getting some "Easter-egger" type hens. I want to add some other pretty shades of green to my egg basket!

Any others with this experience? Being that he came from a true Ameraucana roo, even though he doesn't have a pea comb, he has to have at least one blue-egg gene, right? Meaning he is only heterozygous for the blue egg gene ~ thus the 50/50 chance. I'm figuring correctly here??

I think technically it is a pea comb. Just not a normal compact pea comb that you would get by crossing 2 pea combed birds. The bigger part has to do with it being crossed with the single comb making it taller and sloppy and sometimes flop to the side..
 
I love this thread- pics of birds and eggs are great! such a cool rainbow!

I love laced birds and I am thinking of breeding some laced coloured-egg layers (blue-green-olive etc)
has anyone else done this?
I am going to use barnevelders and araucanas and hoping to keep in ground colours like red, gold (with lav =yellow), silver and lacing colour of blue/splash, black, lavender and maybe white.
So when they chickies hatch they should be a rainbow of laced birds!
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