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Is anyone else raising any Olive egger chickens? #7261403
05/10/21 09:58 AM
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We have a few amerecauna hens that lay blue eggs and my rooster is a black copper maran and the kids love getting the dark chocolate eggs from the marans and the blue. So I put 22 eggs in the incubator and after candling for the last time last night we are left with 10 black copper maran eggs and 5 blue eggs. Hopefully I can get a few hens out of the 5 so the kids can get them a couple olive eggers. Is anyone else raising these?

Re: Is anyone else raising any Olive egger chickens? [Re: RM trapper] #7261419
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We have one or two olive-eggers in our small flock.


Eh...wot?

Re: Is anyone else raising any Olive egger chickens? [Re: RM trapper] #7261420
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We had a few for a while. Switched the entire flock over to black australorp.



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Re: Is anyone else raising any Olive egger chickens? [Re: RM trapper] #7261431
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We have a couple of them. I told the admiral to burn all them egg cartons we have saved as it says " late white" on them and we don't have chickens that lay white eggs. crazy

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Re: Is anyone else raising any Olive egger chickens? [Re: RM trapper] #7261434
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There a pretty durable chicken, they do well in the winter up here and when people come down from the city the always buy the green eggs first.


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Re: Is anyone else raising any Olive egger chickens? [Re: RM trapper] #7261438
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Re: Is anyone else raising any Olive egger chickens? [Re: RM trapper] #7261443
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My ol' Poultry Science prof used to remind us that it's not the color of the shell but what the bird has been eating that makes the egg. Free ranging chickens will have double or triple the omega 3's.


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Re: Is anyone else raising any Olive egger chickens? [Re: RM trapper] #7261452
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We have a hand full on our flock of around 30 birds. We mix our eggs for sale so the cartons are colorful. Blue green, tan through dark brown speckled.

I could list the breed if I could spell them all.

Our chickens live in a portable coup built on an old car trailer. It states inside electric net fence with the goats and gets moved every 2-3 weeks. Keeps them safe and contained in a large clean area with fresh grass and bugs. Not free range but better In my opinion.

Re: Is anyone else raising any Olive egger chickens? [Re: RM trapper] #7261492
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My experience with easter eggers is that they do lay beautiful and healthy eggs, they will stop laying when it gets real hot and real cold. We keep a few white and silver leghorns around to keep egg production through the year.

This year we ordered cream legbars(blue egg), silver leghorns(white egg), and welsummers(dark brown egg). Hopefully some time this fall they may start laying a little.


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Re: Is anyone else raising any Olive egger chickens? [Re: RM trapper] #7261496
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Current flock has about 20% easter eggers or olive eggers. Key points......

1. Small to no combs, so no worry about frostbite in cold regions.

2. They are more flighty / skittish than any others.....can and will fly over fences others won't. Will be the one's acting crazy in close quarters inside the house. They will also be the first ones to go to roost. 10 t0 15 minutes before anyone else. They get in their corner and stay there.

3. They are lowest birds in pecking order. Everybody else kicks the crap out of them.

4. Lay more than others, and yolks are about 10% to 15% larger than any others. Neighbors have only 4 birds left. I gather their eggs when they are traveling. Only one easter egger, but out of a dozen eggs, 4 to 5 of them will be blue. All same age.

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Re: Is anyone else raising any Olive egger chickens? [Re: RM trapper] #7261557
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Not much of a "Flock" compared to some,,but we have 8 Rhode Island Reds and 3 Easter Eggers.Thats plenty for us.


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Re: Is anyone else raising any Olive egger chickens? [Re: RM trapper] #7261570
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got a couple easter eggers, cool looking eggs and nice temperament too, the kids pick them up and handle them often


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Re: Is anyone else raising any Olive egger chickens? [Re: RM trapper] #7261592
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I have 3 Easter eggers, 2 barred rocks, 3 Columbian rocks, 7 Rhode island reds, 2 blue Plymouth rock and 3 black copper marans so we get a nice bunch of colorful eggs each day. I just wanted to add another color mainly for the kids

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Of the ones that are laying right now we only have one that drops a blue egg. Little white bantam with with a puffy head. We either hatched them or got them as peeps so they get handled quite a bit so most are friendly. Sometimes too friendly, such as when you are taking some scratch out for them. I have to drag my feet so I don't step on any of them. Have to be careful leaving the door open or we might have chickens wandering around the house.

I am sure we are well over 50 by now. Gonna take a stab, but I bet 10-15 of them are gonna be dinner. My wife went a little crazy hatching them this year. If I had known this I would have made a bigger chicken coup.

Right now we have 5 mature roosters. One big black one (fo hawk), one little white bantam (butter), one that is part dominique part big black rooster (mumble), one dominique (buddy) and a little silky (black knight). Yup, kids named them. Except buddy. I named him. He follows me everywhere.


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Re: Is anyone else raising any Olive egger chickens? [Re: Providence Farm] #7261606
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Originally Posted by Providence Farm
We mix our eggs for sale so the cartons are colorful. Blue green, tan through dark brown speckled.


We like a colorful variety as well.

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