The Olive-Egger thread!

[Gerry2011]

I'd sure be in the market late this year or early, early next year for a couple olive egg laying hens (or pullets) and a roo. Does anyone know a good source for such?

 

[RHRanch]

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Later this year (fall) I may have a pair availble, but I am in California. I sell hatching eggs, too.

 

[Gerry2011]

Since I have limited space (coopwise)

for chickens it doesn't seem cost effective to buy a bator to hatch more chicks than I have room.

 

[roncrna]

Question for the experts. This is my OE roo that I hatched out in April. As you can tell he has a large single comb. He hatched out from a dark olive egg that was a few generations in the making. If I breed him with my Ameraucanas will their offspring give me olive eggers? Thanks.

 

[jeremy]

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They should, mostly because he came from a dark egg lineage. Because he has a single comb though he probably doesn't carry the blue egg gene, which means if he was a hen he woudn't lay an olive colored egg. As a papa to make more olive eggers though, he should work fine. Just make sure to pair him with hens who have pea combs and then only keep those chicks hatched with pea combs in hopes that they'll be pullets that lay olive eggs.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

BuffyGRL - Yeah!! Congrats on the chicks!! PLEASE POST PICS ASAP!!

~ Aspen

 

[roncrna]

Thanks jeremy!

 

[BuffyGRL]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

BuffyGRL - Yeah!! Congrats on the chicks!! PLEASE POST PICS ASAP!!

~ Aspen

Thanks Aspen

I have more that have hatched, hoping tomorrow they will all be out and I can clean the brooder and get pics before they go in. I just thought to myself. I have NO MORE ROOM in the coops and some need to go... But thats good ole chicken math

 

[cherylcohen]

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oooo Cyn what a nice looking girl - who's she from, if you don't mind sharing?

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Thanks Aspen

I have more that have hatched, hoping tomorrow they will all be out and I can clean the brooder and get pics before they go in. I just thought to myself. I have NO MORE ROOM in the coops and some need to go... But thats good ole chicken math

I know, same here. I have eggs coming in the mail and I have no room...but oh well!

I have a quite a few roosters and hens I need to get rid of, just nobody wants them!

~ Aspen