What color is this egg?

Hard to get a good shot of it but her comb isn't a pea comb. It's single and wavy, almost like it's trying to be both straight and pea style. I don't doubt it's her laying the green eggs. We've gotten 3 perfect olive green eggs since then and each day she lays around 1130 am. I check on her at 11 each day and she's always sitting in the nest at that time. The other EEs don't touch the nest.

If she is indeed a EE/ameraucana and RSL cross would that make her an olive egger?
The pullet pictured here has a PEA comb.  If there is any chance for red sex link bred with any blue/green egger she is it.  And the eggs are extremely likely hers as there is a strong linkage between pea and the gene for blue/green eggs.
 
The appearance is common in pea mixed with straight comb... in fact it can be quite variable if the comb appearance is either not selected for or the birds are mixing freely in a flock containing both pea and single. This kind of setup is pretty common in Game chickens and there are plenty of hens with her type of comb. Squiggly with no points, squiggly with some points, squiggly with points only on the rear part, in a straight line but no combs(looks like a dubbed comb), the front part being low and small with the rear part suddenly being larger and sticking upwards and so on. If bred with large combed chickens, a common appearance is of chewed up bubble gum. All of those are genetically pea combs.

Not so easy to find clear combs of 'funky pea combs' especially ones similar to yours but here's a hen:

http://www.excellencegamefowl.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/lemon-sweater-hen-0-520x245.jpg

Roo

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a259/darth_guyver/160520121923.jpg

So that pullet is pea combed by genetics, just not matching the conventional drawings and pictures of pea combs.

Also, if the group of birds she came from has the colored egg gene linked with pea comb, that is also proof she is pea combed.

I don't know the definition of olive egger- is there one? At most I'm only aware of that term being used to describe colored eggers being deliberately bred with dark egg layers.
 

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