F1 Olive Egger Chicken
Egger and olive egger eggs.
F1 olive egger chicken. As of july 14 2019 we are now offering sexed pullet chicks from our olive egger project. You will need to breed a blue or green egg layer with a dark brown egg layer to get an f1 first generation olive egger. F1 olive egger from 700 olive eggers are a special project that we work on for egg color and are the only cross that we currently produce. Olive eggers are an exciting breed of chickens that typically lay various shades of olive colored eggs.
Our f1 generation hybrids do typically lay an olive colored egg however the olive color can be in various shades and the potential does exist to lay eggs of different colors. Olive eggers are actually not a breed accepted by the american poultry association. Olive eggers are created by crossing a dark brown egg layer with a blue egg layer. Our f1 generation hybrids do typically lay an olive colored egg however the olive can be in various shades and the potential does exist to lay eggs of different colors such as tinted brown etc.
F1s have a 116th chance of laying a brown egg instead of an olive egg and f2s have nearly a 100 chance of laying olive eggs. The most popular breeds to use are the marans or welsummer for the dark brown and a cream legbar or easter egger for the bluegreen egg. Our f1 generation hybrids do typically lay an olive colored egg however the olive can be in various shades and the potential does exist to lay eggs of different colors. Meyer hatchery uses a variety of parent breeds to create several strains of olive eggers.
They are created by crossing a dark brown egg layer with a blue egg layer. This is one of the rare breed chicken breeds martha stewart asked us to deliver to her in 2017 for her own flock. Olive egger chickens are a hybrid created by crossing a blue egg layer with a dark brown egg layer. The olive egger is not a pure bred chicken breed and can be made from several crosses.
They are created by crossing a dark brown egg layer with a blue egg layer. In fact they arent even a true breed. Our breeding is from pure cream legbar rooster over our pure welsummer to create a f1 olive egger. Our olive eggers were created by crossing some of our foundation stock of cream legbars black copper marans welsummers and blue ameraucanas.
This will produce in the first generation some great olive colored eggs for your table. Generally it is made from crossing a real dark brown egg shell layer with a real true blue egg shell layer. We are experimenting with different breeding programs to offer a variety of chicks.