The Olive-Egger thread!

[Maggizzle35]

Those blue eggs are gorgeous. Have Kacoo Marans but just hens, and they have been bred with a Dominque. They have hatched pretty true to form but I know there is a mix there. It will be interesting to see if their eggs are darker than their moms. I will have to keep my eyes open at our feed store to see what they get in. I certainly don't need any more roosters, but if I can get a pure bred rooster of something I do need, it would be nice.

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[Christie Rhae]

Those blue eggs are gorgeous. Have Kacoo Marans but just hens, and they have been bred with a Dominque. They have hatched pretty true to form but I know there is a mix there. It will be interesting to see if their eggs are darker than their moms. I will have to keep my eyes open at our feed store to see what they get in. I certainly don't need any more roosters, but if I can get a pure bred rooster of something I do need, it would be nice.

Are you meaning cuckoo marans? I have heard people say what sounds like "cocoamaran" like all one word and I assumed they meant cuckoo but maybe there is another color they are talking about?

 

[Illia]

Those chicks are soo soo adorable. What did you breed to get those? I have started seeing more of mine have the bearded tuft look. I think I know which Roo is producing it but until i can separate them out for the summer I won't know for sure. Thanks, Margaret

I use Araucanas and Wheaten Marans. The tufts on mine you cannot possibly get unless you use real Araucanas, otherwise you're getting beard/muffs, which are from Easter Eggers and Ameraucanas.


As for the odd colored chick mystery - That's a blue chick. You got it from one of your Wheaten gals there. Because most Wheaten Ameraucanas are seriously lacking in the black/blue department, it is very easy for a very dark blue Wheaten to look like a normal Wheaten, so, she'll give you a 50/50 chance of blacks or blues, but since she might be the only one, you'll get even less chance of blues, thus why you have an odd one out.

Like previously said though, Wheaten is recessive to Black Copper, so if you ever do get a yellow (wheaten or bw) chick, it's because the BCM is carrying recessive unwanted Wheaten. Good for OE's, bad for BC Marans.

 

[Wynette]

Good for OE's, bad for BC Marans.

Yup, yup!!

 

[Lark Rise]

I don't know how to do multiple quotes.

I do use that BCM only for my OE pen. Eventually, I may replace him with a Blue Copper Marans roo I have that's only a couple of months old now.

Sadly, I had to cull one of my OE hens for a prolapsed oviduct. She was the one that had broken her leg last year and has been crouched over all this time. She laid a very pretty egg.

Also, I didn't get any araucanas this past weekend because Mr. R was a no-show. Such a tease!

 

[Wynette]

I don't know how to do multiple quotes.

I do use that BCM only for my OE pen. Eventually, I may replace him with a Blue Copper Marans roo I have that's only a couple of months old now.

Sadly, I had to cull one of my OE hens for a prolapsed oviduct. She was the one that had broken her leg last year and has been crouched over all this time. She laid a very pretty egg.

Also, I didn't get any araucanas this past weekend because Mr. R was a no-show. Such a tease!

OH my word - sounds like that poor gal had a devil of a time. So sorry!

 

[dinahmoe]

I don't know how to do multiple quotes.

I do use that BCM only for my OE pen.

he looks very good to me .i think the wheaten is from my mossy BCM.the BCM rooster i had that the mossies came from had alot of red on his chest.
thats why i kept the mossies and just use them for the olive eggers.i don't even have a BCM rooster now.they lay very dark eggs that make nice olives.
all the mossy chicks that i hatched had copper heads at hatch so thats how i knew.

sorry to hear about your girl

 

[Lark Rise]

he looks very good to me .i think the wheaten is from my mossy BCM.the BCM rooster i had that the mossies came from had alot of red on his chest.
thats why i kept the mossies and just use them for the olive eggers.i don't even have a BCM rooster now.they lay very dark eggs that make nice olives.
all the mossy chicks that i hatched had copper heads at hatch so thats how i knew.
sorry to hear about your girl

The eggs you sent me were very dark and just gorgeous.
The OE hen was special. I was always so amazed that she laid the bluest egg in my basket, but she hatched out of a very dark egg.

 

[qball53]

We just started a pen of olive eggers. We put a Splash Marans roo, who happens to be showing a lot of copper and blue, over our easter eggers which include a couple of wheaten ameracauna hens that washed out of that pen. We previously had a blue wheaten ameracauna roo over the easter egger hens we picked up at the local feed barn. That put some nice blue highlights on some of the hens and made for better beards. I am very intereted to see how the Splash Marans, who of course is largely white, will influence the color of the offspring.

 

[MsCedarSwamp]

My olive eggers are hatching now! I have 4 hatched out so far that all look blue and 3 more pipped and another 4 that haven't pipped yet. Black Copper Marans roo over 2 EE hens, one looks to be blue laced red, the other white with red leakage. Now the wait on the laying to start (if they're not all roos of course)!