Trying to ID breed on a couple of these.....

[Hangtown Farms]

olive eggers are EE's

technically yes but generally they are a ameraucana and a maran or penedesenca or welsummer.

 

[lizanne]

I was told that they were Olive Eggers, but does anyone have any ideas of what they might be mixed with? (ameraucana and ?) They are about 19 weeks now so I can't wait for them to lay their first egg! But, I've heard that Marans are very late layers, so if that is what they're mixed with I might have a while.

 

[hdowden]

I was told that they were Olive Eggers, but does anyone have any ideas of what they might be mixed with? (ameraucana and ?) They are about 19 weeks now so I can't wait for them to lay their first egg! But, I've heard that Marans are very late layers, so if that is what they're mixed with I might have a while.

they have to be mixed with some sort of brown egg layer such as what the above poster said. an EE was used due to the straight combs if they were first gen mixes they would have the pea combs normally found on AM and EE's

 

[goldfinches]

I also have what were sent to me as Olive Eggers. The pullets all have straight combs, although they're awfully small like yours'. Mine aren't laying, they're only about 15 weeks old. What someone on here told me, and other's have voiced the same opinion, that because they have a straight comb, they won't lay an olive egg. They say the pea comb is what links genetically with the blue egg gene. So, apparently, people are breeding what they believe will be olive eggers, (mine are a mix of marans and ameraucana), but ending up with straight comb chicks, who will probably lay a brown egg

 

[hdowden]

I also have what were sent to me as Olive Eggers. The pullets all have straight combs, although they're awfully small like yours'. Mine aren't laying, they're only about 15 weeks old. What someone on here told me, and other's have voiced the same opinion, that because they have a straight comb, they won't lay an olive egg. They say the pea comb is what links genetically with the blue egg gene. So, apparently, people are breeding what they believe will be olive eggers, (mine are a mix of marans and ameraucana), but ending up with straight comb chicks, who will probably lay a brown egg

if pea combs link to the blue gene then why doesn't any of the other pea combed breeds lay blue eggs?

 

[Hangtown Farms]

my olive eggers with the straight combs both lay a blueish green to oliveish egg.

 

[Time-Out]

if pea combs link to the blue gene then why doesn't any of the other pea combed breeds lay blue eggs?

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I have read that pea comb is dominant over single comb, so yes, it could be a second generation olive egger. The wonderful muffs also make me think this as otherwise I'd expect them to be greatly reduced if crossing an ee with a maran (or something). The parents could both be olive eggers with pea combs (and muffs) and produce olive eggers with single combs (as far as I'm aware).

 

[goldfinches]

if pea combs link to the blue gene then why doesn't any of the other pea combed breeds lay blue eggs?

I've wondered that, but that's what posters on the OE thread told me. I'm hoping it's not as black and white as they said, since all of mine have straight combs.

my olive eggers with the straight combs both lay a blueish green to oliveish egg.

That's exciting for me to hear. I have 3 pullets who are 14 weeks old today, so I have a few more weeks to go before they lay.

 

[lizanne]

I found out that my "Olive Eggers" are a Barnevelder mix (from a Barnevelder roo). Would they stil have a chance to lay a green egg?

 

[wordgirl]

If the Barnevelder roo was crossed with a blue egg-laying Araucana or Ameracauna, then you should still have a chance of getting green eggs.

I'm definitely not an Olive Egger expert, but from what I've read, I think an OE (olive egger) is made by crossing a DARKER-brown egg-laying chicken with a blue-egg laying chicken (Ameraucana, Araucana). Barnevelders can have a darker egg than some, but it's not as dark as a Maran or some Welsummers (which are probably usually used for Olive Eggers). Easter Eggers are any brown (of any shade) egg-layer crossed with a blue egg-layer.

But if your chickens have a blue egg-layer in their parentage, then they should still have a chance of laying green eggs, even if they're not really Olive Eggers.