I really was confused when you kept saying my "bards"
I was thinking it was some new word all you youngin's are using to describe chickens...kind of like the Aussies call theirs "Chooks"
Everytime I turn around someone has invented a new word...I get very annoyed at some of them, like ____________tastic!
I HATE THAT!!!
Like "Car-tastic!" or "Broom-tastic!"or "Skin- tastic!"
Am I the only one that hates that stupid sub-word attached to a noun ???
So I really thought it was another newly minted word, LOL
OK, an Olive egger bird is hybred of a Blue egg layer and a dark brown egg layer.
So you can breed any Ameraucana to a Marans, and get olive eggers.
It happens like this:
The blue egg layer has blue pigment through the entire egg, inside & out, and that happens in the bird, and the Marans forms a white egg which comes down through the vaginal canal & is basically "Painted" with dark brown pigment......so cracked open, the inside of its egg is light, almost white, and if you wash the egg, alot of the brown "paint" will come right off.
So,
The hybred of these 2 breeds will form a blue egg, which will travel down through the vaginal canal & be painted dark brown, so the egg will be laid as a dark olive green.
I keep a few handfuls of Ameraucana around just so I can make myself some OEs every year
I have no chicks for sale.
The EE is the same cross, only the Ameraucana is mated to a LIGHT brown layer, like a RIR or a Plymouth Rock...and so it lays a minty greenish egg.
OK, I have to go back to work!
I got photos to upload but it will have to waite!
Hey Penny, aren't you the one with the geo-domes for your coops ?
Just wondering how they handled the high winds, or did you get any high winds up there ?
I have been told the design handles high winds really well...so was wondering?
