I've had chickens a couple times in my life and have never cared about breeding for egg color until I discovered yours and some others, Instagram pages. Just getting back into raising chickens again, maybe a silly question or request, but can you maybe make a simple video on speckled eggs? Those are my absolute favorite, doesn't matter color of egg either for me, just speckles. Thank you!!!
I know it’s a year after this video but I’m so thankful for you taking the time to share this info! I got my first olive egg on Christmas and I am HOOKED! Needless to say, I have some specific breeds to add to my spring list 🥰
We have 7 week old chicks. My first experience with chickens and this just made me even more excited for those first eggs. For our first breeds I chose Barred Rocks and Olive Eggers. Ordered females but I am pretty convinced that one of our Olives is a Rooster. Has very pointed tail feathers compared to the others. Whatever is meant to be shall be. I will be watching more of your videos. Learning as we go. Thank you for the info. I did not realize that the inner eggshell will be blue with the outer olive color. So exciting and fun.
you’ve got me really excited I’m on it had chickens for 12 years and ducks and Geese but I am going to get back into the Chickens and have a bit of fun with Colour. Thank you for your inspiration.
Cool. You’ve answered a question I’ve been pondering for months. I am getting my first 4 chickens in 3 weeks, and one of them is a Green Queen olive egger. I have been wondering if the inside of those eggs would be white or blue! Was hoping blue! Excited!
See, YOU got it! Eggs that taste like eggs, not....tofu. Store bought eggs have the texture but lack the flavor. Besides, you get doubles the second year!
We had our "rainbow" flock in Southern California. Right before Martha Stewart "came out" with chickens. People were shocked. Most loved the multiple colors. A few people told me they don't eat eggs that aren't white or brown. (?????) This was on the beach down near the border; and for a while, they were very very popular! Americana, Maran, Cream Legbar, and a few barnyard mixes that had color genes. They were acutely interested in inspecting my "actual chicken" who rode with me in a stroller. I'm very old, but I was shocked how many kids had never seen/petted one! MOST foreign tourists came and told me what kind of chickens they have back home. I accidentally created a stir when she laid an egg in a mall near the play area, and a bunch of toddlers thought they had witnessed a magic trick! LOL
Can you do a video on identifying barnyard mix chicks. I have white splash marans, blue copper marans, rir, and Barred rock roosters mixed into a large variety of heritage hens.
What happens when you have a rooster that's parent were a marans x Easter egger. He would be olive egger rooster, correct? Then would ge always produce olive eggs with either a blue egg layer hen or a marans hen...just different shades??
I have an olive egger rooster but no hens until he bred my welsummers/speckled sussex and the hens that came from those mixes all lay olive colored eggs, different shades of olive for each hen, but olive none the less. We like to experiment with mixing breeds to see how the chickens come out and what color eggs they lay, we recently hatched eggs from the olive egger rooster mixed with white leghorns and I'm so excited to see if they'll lay olive colored eggs as well. I'm assuming that if they do they'll be more like a pale olive color considering the leghorns lay white eggs.
I bought 5 Olive Egger pullets… One of my hens has started to crowing. Lol Will my OE Rooster fertilize my OE hens? I have heard that some mixed breeds can’t reproduce
Lol. I hate it when that happens. I’ve never had any issues with my OEs reproducing. In order to know what color eggs you’ll get, you need to know the exact parentage of your OEs.
Loved your Olive Egger video! Thank you. I have a flock of Plymouth Barred Rock chickens. One hen of which lays beautiful light olive eggs. Are there any characteristics that she may have that may indicate with what blue egg breed she may have been crossed? I'm new to chickens (almost 1 yr) and love learning
A little shocked how pale your egg yokes are. They look like commercial egg yolks. Are your chickens on commercial feed? Any free range time? Our hens egg yokes are a dark orange color. I wouldn’t eat them for a while because they were weird. My wife got me to try them and they have amazing flavor. We feed with Purina layer feed, lots of meal worms and corn. And about 20-30 hours of free range time per week. We have 3 1/2 acres of pasture that they patrol for grass, clover, worms and bugs.
I hope you still get comments and answer them two years after you posted this video. My question is this, I have an ester egger that lays a light blue egg and was wondering if I would get and olive egger if she was with a male blue laced red wyandotte rooster? Or should I wait until my male olive egger gets old enough and use him, or just try both? The male olive egger was supposed to be a hen but it didn't work out that way.
Hi Leslie! I have been following you on Instagram and I really admire your rainbow eggs! I do have a question, will the olive egg gene combination work if I cross an Ameraucana with a Buff Orpington or Wyandotte (Instead of Marans)? Both my Wyandottes and Orpingtons lay pink to mid brown eggs. Also, does it matter if the blue or brown egger is the rooster? Thanks for posting!
Hey there! If your Ameraucana are true, those crosses will produce light green laying Easter Eggers. The cross will work either way for the first generation. You won’t ever get true olives and less you introduce some darker brown pigments.
So, I plan to raise Black Copper Marans.. and would like to also have .. Araucanas, Amaraucanas.. Cream Legbars and welsummers .. should I take a Maran Rooster and breed it with Ameraucana ? Legbar ? Or Araucana ? Hen ... should the Rooster be the Brown egg layer family and the Hen be the Blue egg layer family ???
Hi! I have starlight green Eggers, Americana, easter eggers and some prarie blue belle Eggers. My rooster is a starlight green egger. Does this mean my eggs should all be greenish? Or will I get some blue eggs too?
Your Starlight Green Egger rooster will pass down his brown pigments to all of his offspring. This will turn all the blue shells to various shades of green
Very interesting! I would love to keep some chickens and have eggs of different colors, so nice. Thank you! Please don't waste those eggs and dirty them up with egg shells tossed back into the egg platter. Hurts to see that.
What does an olive egger chicken look like? I have 3 mystery hens and I was told they would be one of 4 different breeds, well they look nothing like 3 of the breeds leaving only olive eggers as the final option, but I can’t find olive egger pics that look quite like them.
@@THEFOURTEENACRES they look like welsummers more than anything else and I know those are typically used for breeding olive eggers so I’m thinking that may be the case. Still waiting for them to start laying before I know for sure.
What does it mean if my blue eggs have a white shell? Some of my olive eggs have white shells too. I did recently find out that my Ameraucanas are not True... is that the reason?
@@bloominghereandthere You have to peel back the inner membrane. If you have a blue egg, that shell is blue all the way through. It may be really pale blue
OE roosters are a gamble unless you go through the process of proving their egg color genetics. The only roosters I’ve had good luck selling are Black Copper Marans who hatched from super dark eggs
