True-breeding Olive Eggers...almost there...

[Arielle]

MM, my head is swimming how do you band each cross and generation. I have a few EE hens and straight run FBCM and would like to create olive eggers; need some practcal advice on knowing who is who.

Lovely birds; your effort shows!!!

 

[Medicine Man]

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Thank you.
No banding required, each bird involved here is identifiable by name.

I just got rid of the ones I didn't need and this has not taken me very much time at all because I started with 2nd Gen Olive Eggers by asking for a specific B1 from two different breeders (Black Copper/Red Brown F1 Olive Eggers X BC Marans). I kept just one cockerel and one pullet, one from each breeder, and so on...one or two pullets, one or two cockerels (delayed rehoming as long as possible)...

 

[Happy Chooks]

I'll be enjoying watching the progress here.

 

[HHandbasket]

Medicine Man, aren't you in Apple Hill? I'm also in El Dorado county, maybe 30 minutes or so away from Apple Hill. We're in Somerset, closer to wine country.

Do you sell your OEs? I have pretty much every color egg layer except an OE.

 

[HatchingFever]

My barred olive eggers flock breeds true

 

[wolftracks]

I used a blue AM roo to start my OEs. I have feather legged blue chicks. Not yet laying. A nice little cockerel that I'm holding onto.

I'm working more towards solid colors, black, blue , lavender.

I do have an OE hen crossed with Wellie who lays an olive egg with brown speckles. I like speckles, so I'm trying to do a completely different project to get those from the Wellie crosses.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Awww! That is so sweet! More people should be like that! A lot of mine have names, too. Sometimes you just know what they should be called.

 

[Sparklee]

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Why is a violet sheen included? To give the Violaceous sheen? Do you feel like expanding on that if you have time? Are you remaking one of the Violaceous fowls? :asked in an excited and intrigued whisper:

My first olive eggers are just chicks and I got three little smoky grey or blue (do I call them blue if their bellies are white?) babies and a black. One of the greys has a definite gold tinge to the down on the head and hackle area. Crossed from a 2-year-old red/blue green egg layer with lovely slate legs and with white earlobes that I don't like. However, her temperment is good. She is out first in the winter to jump through the snow to forage in any grass she can find. She laid all winter her second year except during a quick molt. Father is ER/ER or E/ER Black Copper Marans (no Db or other e loci issues as he was tested, at least that's what I believe happened). I guess, though, that these chicks aren't a project. They're more like a treat.

 

[AyeUpChuck]

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Man.... These are begging for some henna painting!

 

[Medicine Man]

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I was, but I relocated a couple months ago. Now I'm near the Honey Run.