F1 Olive Egger

You then take those f1 chickswho lay deep olive eggsand breed them back to a copper maran again for even darker olive. 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. These six are 8 weeks old.
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Do you want to add a unique color to your egg basket.

F1 olive egger. Olive eggers are a special project that we work on for egg color and are the only cross that we currently produce. The chicks will have feathered legs and be any mix of beautiful colors. These chicks are from my easter egger hens olive egger hens lavender ameraucana hens bred with a blue wheaten ameraucanaee rooster. 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.

F1 olive egger. If you are interested in breeding for darker olive eggs it gets even more exciting. F1 is an abbreviation for filial one. The olive egg will not be consistence in color and also from hen to hen that lays it.

Okay so to get f1 olive eggers we breed copper maran to ameracuana hens. Good layers of various colored eggs. Crossing a blue egg layer and dark egg layer results in a first generation olive egger also known as an f1 olive egger. What is an f1 olive egger.

Im only beginning with chickens but the ones with the green bands on their feet are the ones that spar. Our breeding is from pure cream legbar rooster over our pure welsummer to create a f1 olive egger. Try an olive egger. I hatched them from eggs and was told they were f1 and f2 olive eggers.

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 olive eggers were created by crossing some of our foundation stock of cream legbars black copper marans welsummers and blue ameraucanas. Some look like theyre getting straight combs and only two look like they might be females. Our olive eggers were created by crossing some of our foundation stock of cream legbars black copper marans welsummers and blue ameraucanas.

If you breed an f1 olive egger with a dark brown layer or blue layer that is called backcrossing. You will love these olive egger chickens. F1 olive egger. This gets you f2 chicks.

If you breed an f1 olive egger with an f1 olive egger you get an f2 but that f2 could lay any colored egg from blue green pink oliveetc. Basically 34 maran has anyone taken these f2 chicks and breed to copper maran again for f3 chicks. 12 olive egger hatching chicken eggs f1 f2. Shipped with usps priority mail.

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. First eggs maybe small but will get to medium to large size. As of july 14 2019 we are now offering sexed pullet chicks from our olive egger project.