🥚THIS IS THE YEAR!🥚
I'm going to build a self serve egg stand at the end of my driveway. I'm pretty sure I know what I want but would love to see pictures of other stands! Show me what you have! ❤️👍
It's just so weird! I kinda love it! ❤️
I have two Polish hens but I have never hatched their eggs... I tried to last spring but they weren't fertilized so I did bother trying this spring.
The only thing is, is I produced this chick. His mother and father were bred and raised here and so were the grandparents. I've never owned a Sicilian Buttercup. 🤷🏼♀️
I hatched this chick last month he is from a Olive Egger mother (Ameraucana X BCM) and a Welsummer father.
His mother has the modified pea comb and he had what looked like a straight comb until about a week or two old it started developing this circle at the back of his comb.
I'm so...
Thank you so much @NatJ that is exactly what I needed!
Honestly it was my fault they are all mixed up, as I was expecting them to be easier to tell apart. Turns out... not so much! I guess that's why I typically use the Ameraucana with a pea comb. 😄
I've been crossing BCM hens to a Blue Ameraucana rooster, and have loved my results. The hens are black or blue sometimes with a beard and some without.
Then I started crossing those back to a AM for minty green and then a Welsummer to get speckles on the olive.
This year I have blue egg...
Perfect! I've been doing BCM and Olive Eggers with Ameraucana X BCM for a few years. This was the first time using a CCL instead of the Ameraucana for the Olive Eggers. I just wasn't sure how the crest came into play with this cross.
I never used CCL before because I didn't have a good line...
I just did my first batch of Olive Egger hens backcrossed to a Welsummer and BCM roosters. So far I have a mix of chipmunk patterns and solid black. As far as I can tell it's seems to be less of them being chipmunk like the Welsummer, even the ones coming from the Welsummer roo pen.
I'll have...
Thats a great question! Because I had the same one. I purchased some BCM hatching eggs and noticed one cockerel with white flecks on his chest and shoulder but only on one side!
Hey everyone, so here's the scoop. I was trying out a different cross for Olive Eggers, for the first time, using a CCL hen with a BCM roo. However I mixed them up with my pure BCM chicks.
My questions are: Do the CCL X BCM Olive Eggers get a crest like their mother? So as they mature I'd be...
I needed to jump on and ask a question, and I found this thread so I figured I'd ask here.
I have what looks like a buttercup comb on a chick. It's a Olive Egger Backcross so a Olive Egger hen with a modified pea comb with a Welsummer or BCM rooster are his parents.
What do you think?
This is how it was explained to me and these are the only ones that I know:
Dark Brown Egg + Blue Egg = F1 Olive Egger
F1 Olive Egger + F1 Olive Egger = F2 Olive Egger.
F1 Olive Egger + BCM or Welsummer =
Olive Egger Backcross 1 (BC1)
BC1 + BCM or Welsummer = Backcross 2 (BC2)
F1 Olive...