The Olive-Egger thread!

[Wynette]

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WOOT!!!! I'm SO SO happy for you!!!! Wish we'd have gotten a blue or two, but the black are really pretty, too! Can't wait to see what egg color you get, LH! These were a "new" cross for me (different starter hens this year). I had a broody blue Giant hatch me 6 of them just before yours, and I think I only got 2 females from that hatch - so yours will be just behind mine in the "lay department"!!!

Genetics.....my thoughts: They are a total crapshoot when you are crossing breeds, even varieties, and sometimes even lines. JMO - don't shoot.

 

[draye]

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WOOT!!!! I'm SO SO happy for you!!!! Wish we'd have gotten a blue or two, but the black are really pretty, too! Can't wait to see what egg color you get, LH! These were a "new" cross for me (different starter hens this year). I had a broody blue Giant hatch me 6 of them just before yours, and I think I only got 2 females from that hatch - so yours will be just behind mine in the "lay department"!!!

Genetics.....my thoughts: They are a total crapshoot when you are crossing breeds, even varieties, and sometimes even lines. JMO - don't shoot.

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Just kidding.

 

[Cetawin]

I must correct my spelling as I type faster than keyboard can keep up. "Platypus".

Wynette: have you noticed feathering identification with yours? With this group of 5, the without doubt boy still has a glob of fuzz for a tail but distinct male comb. The other four are fully feathered, full rounded tails when sitting down and no sight of tail fuzz present just feathers. So four are feathering faster than the for sure male in this group. Also one has distinct white mottling on her breasts and another has light mottling. I will get you new pics as soon as life slows the heck down. *sigh*

 

[Sphinx]

Hello, I hope you don't mind me joining you guys. I've been reading through the thread, and have gotten such a kick out of seeing the pictures of your chickens and eggs. It's so fun because there's such a variety!

I hatched 4 (probable?) olive eggers this summer- daddy was a BCM, and mommies were EE that laid fairly dark green eggs. I gave them to my SIL. She has to get rid of the two cockerels as they're not zoned for roosters.

This was dad:

Moms were the 4 EE in this pic:

Babies at a couple days old:

And today, at approx. 10.5 weeks old:

Sadly, I had something get into my pen last week and kill my flock. I grabbed seven of my favorite EE eggs and set them to incubating. I candled today, and things look great. Can't wait to see how these turn out. From the looks of the last batch, the BCM seems to be quite dominant. The only sign of the EE I saw was a couple of beards and two pea combs.

 

[Roosterfry]

I think you're gonna get some cool dark olive eggs! Please post pictures when you do!

 

[flowerchild59]

Best of luck on your hatches. You have some pretty eggs there from really pretty hens.

 

[Soaring Chicks]

Hello,
first ttime on this thread ,but I have some Olive Eggers & a EE I bred and am looking to breed some more and have been tossing some ideas around.
Here are my two pullet/hens

I have Lavender Ams and a extra Auburn Java rooster I was thinking of breeding them with.
I have them with a (Wynette's )Splash JG rooster.
I would like to get a Blue Birchen Marans trio to breed them with too.
So any ideas what would give me the best colors? I can work on the eggs as the girls are F2's and have very nice color eggs.
Forgot they are a f1 olive egger crossed with blue wheaten marans rooster.

 

[Roosterfry]

These are some good looking birds I'm seeing. That was one of the attributes of the Olive Eggers that first caught my attention as well as dark olive eggs of course! These may be the next new colored eggs to add to the poultry world, similar to Easter Eggers, no breed standard, just colorful birds that lay darker olive eggs! This spring I'm going to be breeding a maran rooster to 2 Easter Eggers hens and 3 first generation Olive Eggers. So I'll definitely get chicks that will be carrying some. genes for colorful eggs! I saw a picture on here somewhere that a maran X EE made a sort of light plum colored egg??? As well as olive eggs? This is fun

 

[babyrnlc]

I need help figuring out who in my flock started laying olive eggs?

I thought I had an olive egger (Pamela) but it turns out she was a sage egger lol. OR maybe not.

The last few days we have been getting an olive egg. I have Pamela and 3 other EE, but the others lay light blue green eggs.

We have some chicks coming up on 6 months, but none should lay green eggs. (You can see their pictures on my page. ) So unless pamela has doubled her laying and made them darker, we have a mystery. The ones that should be laying anytime are leghorns, brabanter, faverolle, barnevelder, and bo. We have two mystery chicks that were supposed to be bcm pullets, but are roosters according to everyone on here and probably not bcm's, but some cross. They have neither crowed, but their tail feathers are starting to get a little curly.

So who is my olive egger?

Here is a picture of the egg (I did not edit it, I do think they look a little washed out and are darker in real life, but it may be my laptop,)
The lighter sage eggs are Pamela's and there is one in the left top and the right bottom. Then there are two from my dark cornish and br on the other side. The ones in question are in the middle.

 

[DMRippy]

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One of my olive eggers started to lay a darker olive egg after a few weeks. Marans eggs will get darker as they lay so maybe that is what happened to your girl.

I vote Pullets!