The Olive-Egger thread!

[qball53]

I may have this wrong, but chickens are really only one of 2 colors Black and Red. The patterns over lay the COLOR. So it sounds like your pullets/hens all are mostly black based so probably yes you will always get mostly black chicks.

I am trying to thin my flock and I want to get rid of my EE roo and just use an Ameraucana, but the fun of EE is the colors and I think my Ameraucanas will KILL that and just throw me solid colors. I have one EE roo about 2 months old, Black and white, thinking he will be that columbian looking type EE roo, like I had. But I also don't want to part with an Ameraucanas Roo. I like my roos.

Not sure any of my pullets will really throw multi color chicks either. Maybe a Wheaten Am roo would help IDK

We used a Wheaten Ameracauna over our EE and still got many of the expected EE colors, which we like also. Then we used a Blue Wheaten Ameracauna over the same EE hens and got a lot of the EE colors only with blue highlights really lovely birds. The Ameracauna roosters added size to the EE's plus aided with the beards.

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: I know wheaten is recessive so it may take a couple of generation to show..... but that is good to know, thanks!

Maybe with all the mixed up genes in EE it will show earlier

 

[Hangtown Farms]

I can't wait to see them. This is one of the crosses I think I want! I saw some hatching eggs for sale on ebay once and didn't get them and haven't seen them since! I have looked for them again many times! Please post pictures!

I got side tracked... I can get you in touch with Deann . those where her eggs on ebay. same person I got mine from. Just Struttin Ranch is here name she has a website.
juststruttin.com I think but if you type in just struttin it will pop up.

 

[Arielle]

Quote: I like the variety of feather colors too. Overall, I really like the EE. Sweet hens. Large beautiful blue eggs. I guess it's time to build a cooop just for the olive eggers. Those girls lay where ever they can hide their gorgeous eggs!! TIme to teach my boys how to make nesting boxes tomorrow!!

 

[DMRippy]

I like the variety of feather colors too. Overall, I really like the EE. Sweet hens. Large beautiful blue eggs. I guess it's time to build a cooop just for the olive eggers. Those girls lay where ever they can hide their gorgeous eggs!! TIme to teach my boys how to make nesting boxes tomorrow!!

Why don't you just put them in with your Marans? The good thing is you can tell the eggs apart, even if you have to look twice at the hens

Or you EE pen..... either way would work depending on what you want to do with the color of the eggs.

 

[Arielle]

Quote: Haha, both pens are a little crowded. Need more room for them all. I figured since I had so many OE roosters to go with the OE hens, I should shoot for f2's . Right? LOL

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: Haha, both pens are a little crowded. Need more room for them all. I figured since I had so many OE roosters to go with the OE hens, I should shoot for f2's . Right? LOL

 

[jeremy]

One of my Wheaten girls.

 

[jeremy]

My non bearded Blue Copper-esque hen.

 

[mkiora]

I am on the verge of starting a little olive egger hobby breeding. I have copper marans (blue and black) and will be getting Ameraucanas. I have a general idea what to expect from crossing those. Olive eggs. But what happens when you cross two olive eggers? Do you get 25% blue egg layers, 50% olive eggers and 25% dark brown egg layers? Or do you get 100% olive eggers. And what is the color of the olive eggs? I saw a computer generated color chart of olive eggs where they had really green eggs at the bottom line of the picture (top two levels were blue x dark brown and olive x blue, and olive x dark brown). I am still trying to understand what the last line is a cross of. Is that olive x olive? Thanks!