The Olive-Egger thread!

[DMRippy]

Has anyone noticed a difference in plumage with their BCM over EE plumage. I have 3 groups of my eggs and 2 I hatched from Wynette's first generation Olive Eggers. Wynette's eggs hatched black chicks as they grow the boy was black with gold flecking (I don't know if that is the right wording but that's what said when I first noticed it) on hackles and tail and girl is black their faces, however are nice charcoal color. I want to get a picture of them, but they are flighty and when get closer they walk away, the only time I had the chance to get a good picture and had camera in had aimed, then the darn battery died

Away I have my 3 groups, first group are all EE appearance, in the second group, I got some with the same gold flecking on the boys and black girls with the dark faces. The EE type do not have the dark faces. The third group the same accept I got 2 blue's they don't have the dark faces. Has anyone else noticed this? It is the type like a Sumatra. I'm having a hard time getting pictures due to they are very flighty, I thought at first it was me not spending a lot of time with them, but I have a Barred Rock and two RIR the same age raised together and they aren't like that. Is that another findings others are finding?

I have some Marans with the gypsy faces.... it is not a good thing in Marans. It may also change when they get to POL they might pink up. I little dark is ok but really dark is not. Since they are Olive Eggers it makes no difference you just need to breed to what you like.

 

[Arielle]

Quote: Tou can cross the barred hens to the BMC rooster; the eggs will have the marans paint. I have a hen that lays such an egg. Looks different than all the others and is easy to pick out.

Use a cuckoo marans hen x EE or AM rooster.

 

[mstricer]

So if I breed one of my F-1 Olive eggers roosters to my barred rock hen, will their chicks be sex linked or do I have to take those chicks breed the roosters, back to the mom, to get sex linked Olive Eggers?

 

[mstricer]

Quote: Its not the Marans that have the dark faces, it is on some of the Olive Eggers hatched, not all of them just some. I've decided to keep these chicks and breed only the ones that look like this, all the these birds are very nice looking,

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: Its not the Marans that have the dark faces, it is on some of the Olive Eggers hatched, not all of them just some. I've decided to keep these chicks and breed only the ones that look like this, all the these birds are very nice looking,
They got it from the cross with Marans.....

 

[DMRippy]

So if I breed one of my F-1 Olive eggers roosters to my barred rock hen, will their chicks be sex linked or do I have to take those chicks breed the roosters, back to the mom, to get sex linked Olive Eggers?

They will be sex linked at hatch.... all the roos will have a spot o their head. Any size spot is still a roo.

 

[chickchickchiky]

The hens have to be barred to make sex links.

So here is what the plan is. I will breed my BCM to my Ameraucana's and make F1 Olive eggers keep a roo from these and breed him to my barred rocks for my F2's then keep those hens sell the roo's since they would be sex linked correct?

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: Your first cross would only give you green eggs (cuckoo don't lay dark eggs) The second crossing would in theory darken the eggs. But pick only the pea combs to breed.

 

[chickchickchiky]

Your first cross would only give you green eggs (cuckoo don't lay dark eggs) The second crossing would in theory darken the eggs. But pick only the pea combs to breed.

Wow this is trickier than i thought. I changed my post above but you had already answered. Can you look it over again and see if i got it lol

 

[Arielle]

CHick--

THe eggs from blue shellx brown shell will give an olive green, it could be very pale olive to medium olive. I have many hens from EE x RIR/BR roosters that are very pale olive green commonly referred to as green. If you cross a EE with a marans ( chocolate paint) , the eggs are a darker olive. I expect the cuckoo marans to give a light olive as my FBCM x EE give a medium olive. All very pretty. ( cuckoo marans have a much lighter coating than the FBCM; BCM have the darkest paint)

I can use the olive egger hen and breed back to a FBCM and the eggs will be even darker for those that make an olive egg. Remember in this later generation the egg colors will be a variety of colors, not all will be the dark olive green.