The Olive-Egger thread!

[jeremy]

Last night I hatched a Splash Olive Egger!

 

[ruth]

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Jeremy - it hadn't occured to me till now that I'll start getting splashes because I'm now breeding the blue hens to blue roos (that hatched from olive eggs). I've only recently started hatching some of my own olive eggs and I'm getting blue/black/splash chicks. Prior to this, I've always breed the OE hens back to pure BCM roos and almost always got blue chicks. This newest generation will be a whole new experience.

 

[jeremy]

Ruth I am SO excited and already SO in love with this little chick. She hatched a day early, the eggs aren't due to hatch until tomorrow. I've wanted so bad to take her out of the incubator and get a closer look and get some better pictures but I don't want her to be all alone in the brooder. So for now she's hanging out in the Brinsea with the rest of the eggs. Just as soon as a couple of the other eggs hatch they'll be slipped under my broody Blue Wheaten Ameraucana.

BTW, this chick has to be a pullet. I'm already SO attached, I'll walk up to the bator and talk to her and she comes over to where I'm at and just peeps and looks up at me.

I couldn't imagine having to send her away if she ended up being a cockerel. But she won't...

 

[Wynette]

Jeremy, you've got quite the collection of olive eggers now!

Cute splash - my fave (well, after blue!).

 

[ruth]

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Hi Jeremy - I've got a lot of broodies these days including two in my OE pen so combined with our high 90s heat the eggs could start to incubate before I can gather them (even with me gathering twice a day) so that's possibly why she hatched a little early - I see that often in the eggs I put in bator. Personally, I take them out of incubator and move them to brooder because I don't like to see them stay in there for more than a day without food and water.

 

[smithbantam]

I have a question, if I breed my BLRW to a EE roo will I get olive colored eggs. Or have I got it all wrong?

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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You will likely get green eggs, but the dark olive eggs can only be "made" when using a dark brown egg layer (ie, Welsummer, Marans, etc) as one of the parents.

 

[speckledhen]

Here she is, Shelby, a Wheaten Marans x EE cross cutie, 5 weeks old. She came from eggs sent to me by my friend halo.

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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Pretty! I have one that I think will turn out similarly. I'll post her pic!

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

Chick #1 is from a Blue Wheaten Ameraucana cockerel, and a Black Copper Marans hen (carrying the wheaten gene, I'm guessing) She's about 10 days old, so we'll see what happens! her comb seems intermediate between pea and straight, so I hope she got the blue egg gene.

The next batch are an interesting bunch. They are from a Welsummer Rooster, over "Amerileg" hens (BBS Ameraucana x White Leghorn). The Welsummer line is VERY dark and/or blotchy, and the eggs were quite blue. All but one have pea combs, so I'm hoping for some large specked olive eggs. Time will tell...