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No no! I'm raising LOTS of Olive Eggers, got two full incubators, half of which are OE's and still gonna fill em once they empty. . .
I'm eating some tonight because they're my current source of chicken-food. I raise chickens primarily for the joy of them as well as preserving rare or good quality birds, the Olive Eggers I breed for a dual purpose kinda thing though. My Araucana x Marans make the best meat hybrid yet so far (besides my Sussex x Shamo which are very limited) so what I do is hatch out a whole bunch, raise them, sell the pullets since they're a good interest in buyers, and keep all the boys to butcher for food for us and our dogs.
I don't mention OE's in the signature because I rarely sell their hatching eggs, and the pullets I sell to locals, plus they're not really something you "breed" like one would, say, a Marans.
And past that, it is pointless to advertise here since no one lives nearby me who's on BYC.
My Olive Eggers I always choose to be Araucana based instead of Ameraucana based, and they always turn out excellent, grow fast, and get very nice and meaty, especially in the breast, which the credit mainly goes to the Araucana for. Sometimes I do sell the boys for breeding though because some of my boys end up absolutely beautiful. My last boy was a Black Breasted Red, and was rumpless. Was a huge fella! He's now enjoying some time on another person's mini-farm.