Ta-Da! Introducing the Wheaten Olivers.
Each year we try to bring in a new flock, a breed that is not already readily available in our area and that I personally am excited about. Awhile back I started to build a flock of Wheaten Olivers and earlier this week we had our first successful hatch. And wow, talk about successful! Five out of five eggs fertile, five out of five developed, and five out of five hatched. Good job ladies and gentleman!
WHEATEN OLIVE EGGERS
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A Wheaten Olive Egger is a hybrid of Wheaten/Blue Wheaten/Splash Ameraucanas and Wheaten/Blue Wheaten Marans who will lay lovely medium to large olive eggs, often with speckles. The birds are lovely and sweet, and can have with muffs, or beards, or feathery legs, or all three!
Expect the hens to be creamy gold with soft-blue trim and the roosters to have blue and black trim, much like their Maran and Ameraucana counterparts.
Upcoming Hatch Dates
a Flower Feather Farm flock
A Wheaten Olive Egger is a hybrid of Wheaten/Blue Wheaten/Splash Ameraucanas and Wheaten/Blue Wheaten Marans who will lay lovely medium to large olive eggs, often with speckles. The birds are lovely and sweet, and can have with muffs, or beards, or feathery legs, or all three!
Expect the hens to be creamy gold and the roosters to have blue and black trim, much like their Maran and Ameraucana counterparts.
These are F1 & F2 Olive Eggers; you can learn more about Olive Egger genetics here.
I occasionally have some a little older available, three weeks or more, and you will find them listed as Started Straight-Run (unsexed) or Started Pullet (girl) or Started Cockerel (boy).
“Hey, I purchased Olive Egger hatching eggs from you and the eggs you gave me are blue?! What’s up with that?” or “Hey, I purchased Olive Egger chicks from you and they grew up and are laying brown or blue eggs. What’s up with that?”
”Thank you for asking. It’s complicated.”
A Wheaten Olive Egger is a hybrid of Wheaten/Blue Wheaten/Splash Ameraucanas and Wheaten/Blue Wheaten Marans who will lay lovely medium to large olive eggs, often with speckles. The birds are lovely and sweet, and can have with muffs, or beards, or feathery legs, or all three!
This is the fun part of curating an Olive Egger Flock: selecting the prettiest eggs to hatch and then selecting the prettiest grow-outs to keep for next year’s flock refresh. Right now I have an Olive Egger Rooster and a Welsummer Rooster (dark brown eggs with spots) covering Bright Blue Egger Hens and Olive Egger Hens.
What makes my Olivers special? The birds I chose to start the flock with.
Olive-colored eggs that is. Today I found this in the nesting box . . .
Olivers eggs lay in all the shades of green, from minty to khaki. And the birds are just as pretty as the eggs!
My friend Kristy sent me this pic of an Olive Egger egg with a blue inside — isn’t it gorgeous? Even better, I was able to order some hatching eggs.