The Olive-Egger thread!

[DMRippy]

Here are my 1st and 2nd Generation Olive Eggs from Wynette. Hatch date Easter Sunday. Can not wait. I also have a BCM roo that I hatch from her also, wasn't going to keep him but I changed my mind, I will leave him with my EE's since he came from a nice dark egg. I have a white EE in the mix and I wonder what her chicks with the roo will look like. Has anyone hatch some from that mix?

If she is dominate white the chicks will be white... maybe with some leakage. I have one... Dominate white Olive Egger with feathered legs.

 

[Coopacabana]

She probably carries it and didn't express it but her babies did. Just like you can get clean legs from 2 parents with feathered legs. I just hatched some that only have feathers on the outer toe and at the ankle... they will look funny...

My understanding of the feather legged gene was that it was like somewhat like blue: two copies means heavily feathered, one means lightly feathered. So two lightly feathered parents would produce 50% lightly feathered 25% heavily feathered and 25% clean legged. Two heavily feathered parents would make all heavily feathered. a heavily feathered and a clean legged would produce all lightly feathered. This last cross was one I tried, and I got the predicted results (though I only hatched two chicks, admittedly far from proof of anything). Thus, clean legged birds cannot be hiding the feathered leg gene and cannot throw feather legged chicks. Is there a recessive feather legged gene? That would explain this.

 

[mstricer]

The rooster is clean legged. Since he is clean legged and the EE's are clean legged, chicks should be clean legged, right? I can't wait to hatch some of their chicks. I just removed the D'Uccle rooster, going to wait three weeks.

 

[dfdesigns]

This is what has me confused, too... my roo is clean legged, and so is the hen. But the babies (and they are definitely her babies) have light leg feathering. You might be surprised by what you hatch!

The rooster is clean legged. Since he is clean legged and the EE's are clean legged, chicks should be clean legged, right? I can't wait to hatch some of their chicks. I just removed the D'Uccle rooster, going to wait three weeks.

 

[DMRippy]

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It would be nice if it really worked that way. We just had a heated discussion on the Marans thread about this subject. There are 3 types of leg feathering... One like a brahma with middle toe feathering, one like the Marans are supposed to have on the outer toe and one with just feathered legs. If I can find the info I will link it but it will be later tonight. They are not HIDING it, they just didn't express it. I hatched over 30 chicks all from heavily to normally feathered Marans... some have NO feathers and some have middle toe feathering. It is all in what type of feathering they have and how it is TRIGGERED to express.


She was carrying the genes for feathered legs she just didn't have the stuff to trigger them to grow, but her babies got the trigger to grow maybe from both parents. The link will help..... when I find it in the 900 pages since the posts....

 

[Coopacabana]

We need the experts!!!

This is what has me confused, too... my roo is clean legged, and so is the hen. But the babies (and they are definitely her babies) have light leg feathering. You might be surprised by what you hatch!

If this is true, then french marans would not breed true. Do they?

My understanding of the feather legged gene was that it was like somewhat like blue: two copies means heavily feathered, one means lightly feathered. So two lightly feathered parents would produce 50% lightly feathered 25% heavily feathered and 25% clean legged. Two heavily feathered parents would make all heavily feathered. a heavily feathered and a clean legged would produce all lightly feathered. This last cross was one I tried, and I got the predicted results (though I only hatched two chicks, admittedly far from proof of anything). Thus, clean legged birds cannot be hiding the feathered leg gene and cannot throw feather legged chicks. Is there a recessive feather legged gene? That would explain this.

 

[Christie Rhae]

Ugh leg feathers, shank feathers, toe feathers, middle toe feathers, stubs, between toe feathers, no feathers...

But olive eggers..... heck anything goes!

I just hatched 4 olive eggers from my blue marans and my EE that lays awesome color eggs. This blue marans cockerel is really junky as far as marans go... but he hatched out of about a #5 egg so he is good for olive eggers. Two of the babies are blue! So dang cute...little puffs of blue and yellow.

They all have pea combs as far as I can tell so it will be ages before I know if I have boys or girls...sigh. I sure would love to see 50% girls one of these days. I am guessing the sex on my 3 week old marans chicks and came up with 27% pullet.

Somebody forgot to tell them that the average boy to girl ratio is supposed to be 50/50.

 

[DMRippy]

We need the experts!!!


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[DMRippy]

And this is where the discussion started on feathered legs ..... https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ssion-pictures-are-welcome/31680#post_8531142

 

[Christie Rhae]

My olive egger babies!


One of my olive egger babies and one of my babies...


I really like these blue babies... So dang fluffy and cute! Oh yeah.. really like that little girl in the pic too! lol!! My daughter Zoey who will be 4 in April. She loves chicks!