The Olive-Egger thread!

[Celtic Hill]

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Absolutely correct! EE's are tricky in that they can produce brown laying offspring!

One way to think of the 'olive recipe' is that egg shells (calcium carbonite) can only be white or 'stained' blue. Brown eggs are 'painted' over the base (blue or white) right before laying (this is why brown eggs are more sticky and can be smuged when wet).

It takes dark brown 'paint' + a decent blue to make a true olive. The fun is in mixing all the available shades of brown and blue for variety. The EE/Barred Rock mix should lay something 'greenish' but it won't be a nice dark olive.

Oh okay, I thought that the brown of the barred rock would darken the green causing it to be more of a dark green/olive color then an actual green of an ee.

 

[alicefelldown]

Unfortunately no, the brown from the Barred Rock will not combine with the brown already inherent in your EE (which is why she lays green and not blue).

 

[Wynette]

Good day, my olive egger friends! It's been awhile since I posted on here, and just wanted to pop in and say hello! Hope you are all well, and all receiving many olive colored (and other color) eggs this summer!

 

[Dreamtime]

Long time lurker first time poster. Had to share olive egger fuzzybutt b-day pictures of alicefelldown's eggs!

10 fuzzballs in all, all sleeping, eating and poopin like champions!





Cant wait for these cuties to grow up

grow grow grow!

 

[ChestnutRidge]

Congratulations on your adorable fuzz butts, and

!!!!!

 

[alicefelldown]

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Adorable!!

 

[speckledhen]

Shelby has just passed 15 weeks now. Time seems to be flying and going slow at the same time. She's doing well, though, very sweet. Sorry about this pen--we're waiting till the brutal weather breaks so we can till it under and condition it again.

 

[BHep]

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Absolutely correct! EE's are tricky in that they can produce brown laying offspring!

One way to think of the 'olive recipe' is that egg shells (calcium carbonite) can only be white or 'stained' blue. Brown eggs are 'painted' over the base (blue or white) right before laying (this is why brown eggs are more sticky and can be smuged when wet).

It takes dark brown 'paint' + a decent blue to make a true olive. The fun is in mixing all the available shades of brown and blue for variety. The EE/Barred Rock mix should lay something 'greenish' but it won't be a nice dark olive.

OK..here is my question... does this work backwards.... blue egger rooster over dark egg laying hen. Such as a true Ameraucana rooster and Marans, Welsummer or Penedesenca hens. ?????

 

[Spitman]

What about EE hen and RIR Roo? Will that give me a light shade of olive? , I have 1 EE that lays a blue egg and one that lays a darker green egg .

 

[DMRippy]

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Absolutely correct! EE's are tricky in that they can produce brown laying offspring!

One way to think of the 'olive recipe' is that egg shells (calcium carbonite) can only be white or 'stained' blue. Brown eggs are 'painted' over the base (blue or white) right before laying (this is why brown eggs are more sticky and can be smuged when wet).

It takes dark brown 'paint' + a decent blue to make a true olive. The fun is in mixing all the available shades of brown and blue for variety. The EE/Barred Rock mix should lay something 'greenish' but it won't be a nice dark olive.

OK..here is my question... does this work backwards.... blue egger rooster over dark egg laying hen. Such as a true Ameraucana rooster and Marans, Welsummer or Penedesenca hens. ?????

Yes.. it works both ways. You only need the combination of Blue egg genes and Dark egg genes and you should get Olive Eggers.