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[pennyJo1960]

Olive Eggers can be tricky to breed. The genes that control the amount of brown coating an egg gets are complicated. Usually, if a person has crossed a blue egg laying breed, with a dark brown laying breed, the resulting chicks might lay olive eggs, or they can be lighter shades of green.

well I may be also looking for a few at the poultrypoluzza in Port Orchard Saturday
as I can take up to 22 birds in my main coop. I will say I am pretty sure
my 5 barred rocks will rule the roost.

 

[Hinotori]

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Hatchery sex links are brown layers. Individuals can make their own with the right parents. There are several ways to do it. I did sex link EEs one year. They all layed nice blue or green eggs.

 

[Hinotori]

I'm exhausted!
We have had two long power outages over the past three days and my incubator is full with long-coveted eggs.

Tuesday was a car-power pole accident that took out the power pole and our entire island's electricity. Fired up the generator for the eggs (did I hear grumbling from my DH?) and then started to worry that it was going to be a long outage and we didn't have enough fuel to last. Guess we got caught a little flat footed on that one. So I bundled the incubator up and after the road was opened I got the eggs to a friend's house off-island that had power. They stayed there overnight. Picked them up yesterday morning (our power came back on in the night) and brought them home. We put away the generator and thought we would go get more fuel the next time we went into town in a few days..........after all, who has heard of two long power outages within two days of each other in mid-March??......dumb, dumb, dumb.

All was well until about 2am when the wind really started........of course I laid there in bed wide awake just praying we kept the power. I started to feel a bit smug right around 430 and, of course, out it went.....so had to hop out of bed and wrap them up with the down jacket and hot water bottle I had set aside for them. By early morning we heard the power might be off for up to 24 hours and that the nearest gas station pumps weren't working so went over to my nearest neighbor's-with-a-super-duper-generator and had to dodge tree limbs and an overflowing pond to get up his long drive. Tucked my incubator into his place and just got it home a few hours ago.

These are the most traveling eggs I have ever attempted to hatch. Fingers crossed they make it.....we are on day 16 tomorrow.

Best of luck! And I hope you keep power for the rest of the incubation

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am planning on the poultrypoluzza but am not sure what time it goes tomorrow

 

[pennyJo1960]

SeattleSelkie@

How does the egg babies look? I surely hope no issues from so well travelled

 

[sweetsam]

We have book themes for ours. So we have almost an entire flock named after characters from wizard of oz

 

[SeattleSelkie]

SeattleSelkie@

How does the egg babies look? I surely hope no issues from so well travelled

Final candling in two days, right before lockdown, so we will see how they are feeling at that time.

 

[pennyJo1960]

We have book themes for ours. So we have almost an entire flock named after characters from wizard of oz

We use to name puppy litters that way a great fun way to name. Should I have neglected to say hello before

I love this site and the very best for education and fun or for bragging and the other B end as well.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Final candling in two days, right before lockdown, so we will see how they are feeling at that time.

Good luck sure hope all is well when you do.

 

[CarolynF]

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Getting the first generation or two of Olive eggers is pretty straight forward as long as the parents are not mixed breeds. The chart below can help to demonstrate that. When it get crazy is if you breed 2 olive or easter eggers together. That's when you get all kinds of fun surprises.

@Penny1960, you can get some very nice Olive Eggers from Lyn Adams (Stoney Earth Farm on facebook) She's near Gig Harbor.