WTB olive eggs

[key west chick]

I'm still looking for some olive eggers. My last hatch didn't turn out well. Only got 3 to hatch and they are all cockerels.

 

[redhen]

Would my Golden Cuckoo maran over some of my blue/green laying hens make an olive egger chick?

 

[ILOVEFRIZZLES]

I have EE that lay Blue/green $6 one dozen

 

[redhen]

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I think she wants olive eggers. I may be confused..but i think they are differant than the regular blue/green layers. I think to get an olive egger you need a brown egg rooster over a blue/green laying hen and the babies will lay a pretty dark olive green egg. I think...i'm still not sure how it really works..

 

[Sierra pachie bars]

onethespot have some impressive olive eggers. Might message her and see what she has.

 

[redhen]

I just made a thread asking how to make olive eggers...

 

[redhen]

Okay, someone just told me that you do indeed get olive eggers with a brown roo over a blue/green hen.
So..if you want some cheap eggs i can send you some. Heres the thing though..My Roo's are: Golden Cuckoo Maran (hes the head roo), a white Ameraucana, and a sissy Araucana (he's very pretty though). So, you may get some pure/mixed Ameraucanas or Araucanas..not Olive eggers. But my Golden Cuckoo IS the main roo..and i see him on them alot. So the odds are that you will get Olive eggers.
THe hens are: 2 EE's, 2 Araucanas ( one is rumpless..and they already lay olive-ish color green egg.), 2 white Ameraucanas, and 1 wheaten Ameraucanas

THese birds all came from very good BYC breeders..except 1 EE and the 1 wheaten. All are pure breeds. Well except the EE'S ..

Let me know if you want some eggs. I cant do too many at a time but i'll send what i get in a few days period. Plus i have other breeds (all pure) also, but the babies would be mutts because they all run together with these 3 roo's.

 

[danielbrown]

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I think she wants olive eggers. I may be confused..but i think they are differant than the regular blue/green layers. I think to get an olive egger you need a brown egg rooster over a blue/green laying hen and the babies will lay a pretty dark olive green egg. I think...i'm still not sure how it really works..

sex does not matter with the blue egg gene.
dark brown egger X blue egger= oliver egger.

It's helps if the blue egger has two copies of the blue egg gene.
More of the offspring will lay olive eggs.

 

[redhen]

Quote:
I think she wants olive eggers. I may be confused..but i think they are differant than the regular blue/green layers. I think to get an olive egger you need a brown egg rooster over a blue/green laying hen and the babies will lay a pretty dark olive green egg. I think...i'm still not sure how it really works..

sex does not matter with the blue egg gene.
dark brown egger X blue egger= oliver egger.

It's helps if the blue egger has two copies of the blue egg gene.
More of the chicken will lay olive eggs.

ooh really! so...all my birds could have olive egger babies then? Not just my blue hens? Because i also have a Ameraucana and a Araucana roo in with my brown laying girls!.cool! Nice to know this, thanks for the help!

 

[redhen]

I think i hijacked Key Wests thread...sorry Key West.