The Olive-Egger thread!

[mstricer]

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!

Nice babies. Zoey is really cute what a fun age. I can't wait until my hatch, I have to wait till easter and can't hatch any of my own till then either

 

[Lark Rise]

Awww......adorable chicks! Lovely daughter! I love 4....they say the cutest things at 4!

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!

 

[Wynette]

Oh my word, Christie Ray - that pic of the blue chick & your daughter is ADORABLE! HOLY COW! You should submit that for the POW - seriously!

Just wanted to share that I have a couple of olive egger pullets hatched last fall that have just begun to lay. I got the most GORGEOUS colored egg yesterday, my mouth dropped open - I've hatched a ton of olive eggers, but THIS one is the prettiest yet. I took this with my cell phone and it seriously washed out the color, DARNIT! (I lost my digital camera a few months ago and I keep hoping it'll turn back up...I just can't afford a new one, but I'm going to eBay to see if I can find a used one today because I can't live with my cell phone camera!!), but the egg is ALMOST the color of the grass (which is why I put it next to the grass).

 

[DMRippy]

Oh my word, Christie Ray - that pic of the blue chick & your daughter is ADORABLE! HOLY COW! You should submit that for the POW - seriously!

Just wanted to share that I have a couple of olive egger pullets hatched last fall that have just begun to lay. I got the most GORGEOUS colored egg yesterday, my mouth dropped open - I've hatched a ton of olive eggers, but THIS one is the prettiest yet. I took this with my cell phone and it seriously washed out the color, DARNIT! (I lost my digital camera a few months ago and I keep hoping it'll turn back up...I just can't afford a new one, but I'm going to eBay to see if I can find a used one today because I can't live with my cell phone camera!!), but the egg is ALMOST the color of the grass (which is why I put it next to the grass).

Congrats! It is purdy! I just put a ton of first gen olive eggers in the bator yesterday. Some are really nice Marans eggs, she needs to breed that girl. Got more coming too

 

[Wynette]

You know, it's so nice to have a fun breed like olive eggers, where there is no standard to follow, and we simply love their gorgeous eggs!

 

[mstricer]

Oh my word, Christie Ray - that pic of the blue chick & your daughter is ADORABLE! HOLY COW! You should submit that for the POW - seriously!

Just wanted to share that I have a couple of olive egger pullets hatched last fall that have just begun to lay. I got the most GORGEOUS colored egg yesterday, my mouth dropped open - I've hatched a ton of olive eggers, but THIS one is the prettiest yet. I took this with my cell phone and it seriously washed out the color, DARNIT! (I lost my digital camera a few months ago and I keep hoping it'll turn back up...I just can't afford a new one, but I'm going to eBay to see if I can find a used one today because I can't live with my cell phone camera!!), but the egg is ALMOST the color of the grass (which is why I put it next to the grass).

Very nice.

You know, it's so nice to have a fun breed like olive eggers, where there is no standard to follow, and we simply love their gorgeous eggs!

I love to colored eggs. I saved the Marans rooster from your eggs and have him over 7 EE's (one is white). So now with the chicks I get from your Olive Eggs, should they go back to a Marans or a Lavender Ameraucana Rooster? I want emerald green eggs.

 

[Wynette]

It's kind of a crapshoot - you really need to see what they are currently laying. If you breed back to the Marans cock bird too many times, you end up with a dark brown egg. Especially if that Marans was bred for VERY dark egg genetics. It seems almost, for olive eggers, like it would be better to use a Marans cock bird that came from a 4 or 5 egg rather than a 6 or 7.

 

[mstricer]

He came from an egg similar in color to what is shown below, which is also from your eggs. The EE eggs are who the rooster is in with, the 3 week wait to hatch is killing me.

 

[Wynette]

Hmmm..............well, that's not DARK dark, but it's fairly dark....you actually may get a VERY nice shade of dark olive from the offspring!

 

[Sueg4332]

I have a pen full of feathered legged BCM . Some of the chicks are hatched with feathers on legs. And they lose them later. I notice one of the splash is getting his back.
Maybe its the muddy pastures they get bugs from.
The bcm are hard to breed and hard to hatch.
I like the olive eggers Have some in the bator. now