To get an olive egger...

[Illia]

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Yes.

The offspring will look very similar in color to the Black Copper, but have light feathered shanks, a beard/muffs, and a pea comb. (most of the time)

 

[enggass]

A Black Copper Ameraucana?

 

[Illia]

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Actually, there already are "Brown-Red" Ameraucanas, which are the same as black copper (Black Copper is the hobby name they earned)

Otherwise, haha no, it would be a mutt colored mutt Easter Egger.

In all reality, crossing Brown-Red, Wheaten, or Duckwing with Black All do the same thing - Create a mockery of Brown-Red. It does not breed true, of course, but looks a lot like it.

 

[BlacksheepCardigans]

I think you can get a light olive by crossing EEs and regular brown layers - when I was growing up we had a mutt flock that started off as EEs (Murray McMurray called them Araucanas, of course; that was 20+ years ago and they didn't even use the word Ameraucanas yet) and RIRs and Barred Rocks from Hardy's Hatchery up here in Massachusetts. Within a couple of years we consistently had the kind of light olive egg that a lot of people on BYC are calling OEs (when I found that thread I thought Oh, look, the eggs I ate as a kid). You will NOT get the dark olive/gold/oak egg that comes from crossing back in to the Marans and strictly selecting. But honestly if what you have is a typical laying flock with no Marans and you like the look of the lighter olive eggs, they're certainly not out of the question. It's just a "dirty" or sooty green egg, so picking any of the genuine brown layers (not the tinted layers) will get you there.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

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Just what Illia says. I brought home a Wellsummer cockbird the other day to experiment this way and am casting about for a good Marans rooster as well.