When do the crests show up on Olive Eggers?

[StinkyAcres]

If this chick will have a crest should I be seeing it by now?

 

[sourland]

Not all Olive Eggers have crests.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Most often if it was gonna have one you'd at least be seeing a sign of one by now.
Not always but most often.

 

[StinkyAcres]

Not all Olive Eggers have crests.

Yes, I realize that. I'm just very curious what these will look like as adults.

Most often if it was gonna have one you'd at least be seeing a sign of one by now.
Not always but most often.

Thanks. I haven't been able to find OE chicks that look like these, so I was wondering 1) what hatchery they came from and 2) if they're another breed or mix. I guess I will have to be more patient and wait and see!

 

[Ajp23]

I got four olive egger chicks last fall and only one has a crest, she had it by three weeks. This year I got four sapphire olive Eggers and ALL have crests. Some looked like they had little puffs by week two.

 

[StinkyAcres]

I got four olive egger chicks last fall and only one has a crest, she had it by three weeks. This year I got four sapphire olive Eggers and ALL have crests. Some looked like they had little puffs by week two.

Thanks! Do you think mine is a Welsummer x Legbar? I didn't get the name of the hatchery these came from, but I was assuming (maybe wrongly) it was Hoover's. Their other OE cross is Cuckoo Marans x Americana.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Yes, I realize that. I'm just very curious what these will look like as adults.

Thanks. I haven't been able to find OE chicks that look like these, so I was wondering 1) what hatchery they came from and 2) if they're another breed or mix. I guess I will have to be more patient and wait and see!

Does it have yellow legs?
It's duckwing patterned which is what legbars and welsummer are. Duckwing is fairy recessive so anything extended black or birchen based would cover it. Copper marans are birchen. Cuckoo marans are extended black. Ameraucana/ EEs can be several things most of which would be dominate to duckwing.
Legbars and welsummer both have yellow skin which is recessive to white which most of the other breeds used have. If it has yellow legs I'd for sure think legbar X welsummer. The lack of crest may mean it's not a F1 cross but a cross or bred back from the F1s

 

[StinkyAcres]

Does it have yellow legs?
It's duckwing patterned which is what legbars and welsummer are. Duckwing is fairy recessive so anything extended black or birchen based would cover it. Copper marans are birchen. Cuckoo marans are extended black. Ameraucana/ EEs can be several things most of which would be dominate to duckwing.
Legbars and welsummer both have yellow skin which is recessive to white which most of the other breeds used have. If it has yellow legs I'd for sure think legbar X welsummer. The lack of crest may mean it's not a F1 cross but a cross or bred back from the F1s

Its legs appear to be pale pinkish-yellow.

 

[MGG]

Its legs appear to be pale pinkish-yellow.
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It actually looks a lot like a Speckled Sussex. How sure are you it's an OE?

 

[StinkyAcres]

It actually looks a lot like a Speckled Sussex. How sure are you it's an OE?

Not sure at all - that's why I'm asking!