The Olive-Egger thread!

[DMRippy]

AWESOME colors!!! forgive my ignorance but what's FCBM? I love the OEs you've got, are you sharing any yet?

French Black Copper Marans, and just an FYI... OE we understand you but the rest of BYC will think you are talking about Old English game birds.

 

[DMRippy]

Here's some chick pictures; just taken. Any ideas on gender?


#1: Blue or Black Ameraucana over French Black Copper Marans



#2: Blue or Black Ameraucana over French Black Copper Marans



#3: Blue or Black Ameraucana over French Black Copper Marans; has white spot on head.



#4: Blue or Black Ameraucana over Cuckoo Marans... pullet!

Thanks for looking!

The one with a spot had to come from cuckoo and is a roo if you only have cuckoo pullets. All your chicks should look almost identical to blue and black copper marans. Hopefully they have a pea comb or the blue egg genes anyway. I can guess pretty good on mine at hatch... but don't really know for sure till about 2 weeks. The roos with marans usually feather slower no tails is my main clue. They should make some great Olive Eggers....

 

[Kate McKae]

French Black Copper Marans, and just an FYI... OE we understand you but the rest of BYC will think you are talking about Old English game birds.

Got it they we're listed as FCBM, instead of FBCM thought they were something different. I can see how there may be some confusion with OE but most people talk about EEs as easter eggers and OEs as olive eggers at least in my circles.

 

[Illia]

The color of egg that a hen lays does not change. It can vary in intensity but it they don't lay different colors different days.

lol Not with Olive Eggers!!

I have two different people who bought only ONE F1 hen from me, the rest of their birds lay brown or white eggs, and that one hen can lay anything from a normal olive egg to a greenish light blueish egg to a half-and-half or even a speckled, splotchy type, or even an olive with a gray haze over it.

It is true with most others yes but F1 Olive Eggers I've seen some crazy stuff.

FYI to folk - Your Olive Eggers don't have tufts unless you actually bred tufted Araucanas in there somewhere

Concerning charts and the sort, I actually made that one, don't have a bigger size unless the demand calls for it. Any other charts are this one, basically gives a good idea of the difference between an Easter Egger (homemade) and an Olive Egger, plus common second gen OE's.






Answering an earlier question, Lav x BCM = black chicks with white bellies, they'll grow up to be black birds with tiny to no reddish leakage, possible golden or silver leakage too, birds should but not always will be bearded, and will have very sparse to moderate leg feathering. Same goes for Black Am x BCM.

 

[dfdesigns]

He's got leg feathering, which my FBC Marans has, and my Cuckoo Marans does not. Weird, eh? I'll be excited to see what the ladies lay!

 

[Christie Rhae]

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The same hen will lay different color eggs? I mean I understand speckles and intensity being different... but a really different color egg? How is that possible? The avatar in question has greens, blues, and browns. How?

 

[Illia]

I'd normally ask how too, but, it happens. Now as for their avatar I don't think so with them, but that's a good representation (minus white) of what I mean.

I hope Phage doesn't mind I post this, this is his photo of an array of eggs one OE pullet laid, hatched from my F1 breeding. Crazy.

 

[buckabucka]

Wow. What a cool assortment that olive-egger lays!

 

[haTHOR]

This looks very possible to me.I think a lot of this kind of variation comes from more or less bloom on given days, at least with my eggs.

I'd normally ask how too, but, it happens. Now as for their avatar I don't think so with them, but that's a good representation (minus white) of what I mean.

I hope Phage doesn't mind I post this, this is his photo of an array of eggs one OE pullet laid, hatched from my F1 breeding. Crazy.

 

[DMRippy]

Marans learn to pain their eggs and that is basically what is going on. They look to be gradually getting darker with the dark brown color. Even my near year old olive eggers will lay a different color egg. Close to the same but slightly different. So do my Marans... they have gotten more consistent as they have gotten older but the color will vary. I don't see that with my blue egg layers so I really think it is the coating. Bloom will change the color too.