The Olive-Egger thread!

[newlyweds]

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Love this picture, looks like you have some great olive eggers!! Please do post again with your first OE egg picture!!

 

[Medicine Man]

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This is widely variable. Some folks get lucky and get a nice, dark olive egg from their F1 pullets, but usually it's not all that dark until the B1 generation. Only time will tell.

 

[buckabucka]

Thanks for the reply, newlyweds. Your opinion appears to be the consensus (one person thinks #3 is a pullet). While I certainly didn't want that many roos, I'll be happy at this point to have at least one black pullet out of this hatch. I have 2 pretty blue ones, and a welsummer mix that came from my own eggs.

 

[HenThymes]

Hi Everyone!

Without going thru all 288 pages of this wonderful thread can anyone tell me if bantam OE's exist? I have/had (had an accident today with one

) three/now two beautiful young girls growing out that will lay an very nice shade of olive but wonder if there are any in bantam, would be nice to have a bit smaller size in my kids bantam flock.

 

[jeremy]

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I don't remember hearing about anyone with bantam OEs, got any pictures?

 

[HenThymes]

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I don't remember hearing about anyone with bantam OEs, got any pictures?

No I don't have bantam's just a couple of LF, but would love to have a couple bantam oe's for the kid's little 'hen pen'.

 

[FarmerBoy24]

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I agree with the 288 pages. hahaha

 

[FarmerBoy24]

I plan on starting my Olive Egger project after my Lav silkies. I have 1 Olive egger so far

, from patty. Anyone have any advice before I get into the project?

 

[stitch_b]

Hey guys
I got 5 eggs from bobby (aka hatchingfever) by way of patty carson (aka onthespot) in lockdown right now! Im hopping to be a proud olive egger father sometime today or tomorrow! All of the eggs I got were olive except one so most of them were too dark to candle but I could def see movement in the one that was blue and one of the lighter speckled olive ones so im keeping my

that I get atleast two! Wish me luck!

 

[aShMaNv]

Wow after all these pics of the birds and eggs I want some olive eggers!!!

Ok for a new guy though, If i cross a easter egger (araucana) and a RIR would the chicks lay olive eggs???