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

[Medicine Man]

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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.

It sounds like you have some Blue/Blue Coppers, yeah. The bellies would typically be white as peeps.

 

[draye]

Medicine Man:
Are your Olice Eggers still bredding true?

We need a serious update here.

 

[phasianidae]

Update?

 

[coloradogal]

This is an old post but I happened upon it because my olive eggers also have the violaceous sheen to their feathers. I attribute it to the ponape parentage. They are gorgeous birds. I just wonder how common the blue/purple sheen is.