F1 Olive Egger
F1 is an abbreviation for filial one.
F1 olive egger. 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. 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. 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. 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.
If you are interested in breeding for darker olive eggs it gets even more exciting. Though the plumage on this cross varies 95 of our olive eggers will lay an olive shade egg varying from lighter olive to very dark army green. The word filial derives from the latin word filialis meaning of a son or daughter f1 therefore refers to first offspring the first generation resulting from crossing two different breeds for a specific purpose in this case to achieve eggs with olive coloured shells. What is an f1 olive egger.
If you breed an f1 olive egger back to a dark egg layer you create a f2 olive egger which will hopefully lay a darker egg than her mother. They are created by crossing a dark brown egg layer with a blue egg layer.