What breed are these two?

pkarkos

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Hello!
I have a pair of 6-month-old hens named Poppy and Qwenog. I received them as eggs from my pet chicken. As far as I knew from the color and initials on the eggs, Poppy is a Black Olive Egger and Qwenog in a Green Magnolia Easter Egger. Both of these breeds are crosses that could result in a brown egg layer of 1 in 16 eggs. Qwenog does look like the green magnolia easter egger pictured on the website, but I believe she has been laying cream-colored eggs. As in Poppy, who, as a chick, looks nothing like the other black olive egger chicks pictured on the website. Either both of these hens are laying cream colored eggs or my salmon favorelle has been laying about 3 or 4 eggs in the past 20 hours or so. And I know that the days are long right now but that's just impossible, right?

Here is a picture of Poppy's egg and as a chick and an adult (she is the one in the front of the last photo). What breed do you think she is? The two of them both look so similar to the Green Magnolia Easter Egger pictured on the my pet chicken website. Are they possibly the same breed?
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Neither olive eggers or Easter eggers are a breed. They're just mix breeds given a name that is supposed to be from the color of eggs they lay.
MPC is the king of giving cute names to mix breed birds to up their asking prices.
The 1 in 16 is also bull. Most olive eggers unless first generation have a 50% chance of laying brown eggs.
Easter eggers can be so mixed at this point its had to say what % will lay brown eggs but I can guarantee its a lot higher then 1 in 16.
Basically MPC has sold you two mixed breed brown egg layers.
 

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