The Olive-Egger thread!

[mstricer]

Heyo! I have one lil olive egger pullet that I've had since her first day as an egg and her lil bro (who turns out to be a FCM who's not really her brother but I hatched him with her) and they are 3 months old now ^.^ my lil olive egger gal is my fav though. I was wondering, her being a mix between ameraucana and FCM, what shade should her eggs be? And do olive eggers go broody? Because I was going to use her to incubate eggs since its better to use a chicken than an incubator like mine. And could I use her to incubate other bird eggs too? Like chickens, quail, duck, goose, swans, pheasant, ect? And is there any way to be sure that she's a hen? Thank y'all do much! I'm so excited about my lil gal! (her name is Aqualympic btw)

Look at the eggs above, those are mine EE x fbcm. Mine have not gone broody, yes they can hatch other eggs, just mot sure if they would give up before day 28. Do you have a picture of her, we would be able to tell whether or not it is a girl.

 

[Sparkypatriot15]

there are some pics of Aqualympic. is he/she a boy or girl? and aqua is an olive egger right? i hope so……. btw she has no feathers on her legs

 

[ChickensRDinos]

I just got my first olive-egger pullet and am very excited!! I can't wait to see eggs. She is 8 weeks old. I named her Waffles.

 

[Sparkypatriot15]

this is aqua sitting with moe. are they both girls? and what breeds are they?


close-up of moe


and thats my duck joey f any of you can tell with that one….. none of my birds have ever shown aggression and are extremely loving. the chicks even like to stand on my shoulders like parrots. any help telling their breeds and genders would be great! they r all 3 months old! thanks!

 

[mstricer]

They look like EE's could be Olive egger. The duck looks like a call. gender can go either way at that age .

 

[naturespace]

there are some pics of Aqualympic. is he/she a boy or girl? and aqua is an olive egger right? i hope so……. btw she has no feathers on her legs

Looks like a nice girl to me.

 

[Sparkypatriot15]

The duck is a mallard...... Is it possible to have a call mallard maybe? The person I got Joey from didn't have any call ducks.... And ok so they are girl EEs but could also be Olive Eggers? So one of them isn't an FCM.... Darn. But oh well I still have 2 sweet gals thanks! I'll update when I get more info on them....

 

[Hangtown Farms]

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How can you tell this? Look like Olive eggers to me. Look like a Marans x Ameraucana cross or something along those lines. I could be wrong but how can you tell?

 

[mstricer]

They do look like Olive eggers, but that is not a pure bred so I consider they as EE's until they lay an actual olive color. Those girls do look like they have been mixed with Marans upon closer inspection.

 

[Sparkypatriot15]

ok well thanks….. so ive got myself 2 girl olive eggers or EEs….. will they go broody?