Getting olive eggs the hard way

[Jdubb]

so I got 6 chicks about a year ago, 2 of them were straight run olive eggers. One was a Roo and the other laid brown eggs with speckles. But then I incubated some eggs from the olive egger rooster and olive egger hen and, behold! The babies laid their first eggs this week at 14ish weeks and lay olive eggs!! I'm excited haha this was a lot of work considering I could have just gotten some olive egger pullets for like 5$ a piece at the tractor supply. But my toddler loved experiencing the incubation process with me and it was a first for me also.

 

[WingItRanch]

That is so cool! Congrats on your Olive Eggers! Even more rewarding having bred them yourself!

 

[Jdubb]

That is so cool! Congrats on your Olive Eggers! Even more rewarding having bred them yourself!

Definitely rewarding, Overall ended up with 10/10 successful hatch on our incubation, and 7 were roos and 2 of the 3 hens ended up being the olive eggers. I had 2 or 3 of each hens eggs in the incubator so it was a real roll of the dice since they're all different breeds combined with the olive egger roosters genes haha, it's a unique flock now for sure

 

[N F C]

Congratulations on your hatch and finally getting the OE you wanted!

 

[TwoCrows]

Congrats! Gorgeous eggs and birds!

 

[wrathsfarm]

Very pretty eggs and OEs... I've been trying since last year to get some. Might see an Olive egg in a few months or Spring.

 

[Jdubb]

My only problem is all of my olive eggers seem to have a hereditary amount of being terrified of everything that moves and I can't handle them like i do the rest of my chickens

 

[Cheryli]

so I got 6 chicks about a year ago, 2 of them were straight run olive eggers. One was a Roo and the other laid brown eggs with speckles. But then I incubated some eggs from the olive egger rooster and olive egger hen and, behold! The babies laid their first eggs this week at 14ish weeks and lay olive eggs!! I'm excited haha this was a lot of work considering I could have just gotten some olive egger pullets for like 5$ a piece at the tractor supply. But my toddler loved experiencing the incubation process with me and it was a first for me also.

That is so nice. I got my Olive Eggers the easy was. I bought them from Tractor Supply