Chicks
Olive Egger Chicks
$106 weeks · Straight run · Qty 12
Tacoma, WAarial h
Photo: ChompMugwump / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Purpose
- eggs
- Egg color
- green/olive
- Eggs / year
- ~200
- Hen weight
- ~5.5 lbs
- Cold hardy
- Yes
- Heat tolerant
- Yes
- Temperament
- varies with parent stock, generally calm
- Forages
- good
- Broodiness
- low
- NPIP stock code
- R777
- Origin
- United States
Breed guide
Olive Egger
Also known as: OE
Hybrid
A production cross with no breed standard. Chicks hatched from these birds will vary from their parents.
A cross between a blue-egg breed (Ameraucana, Cream Legbar) and a dark-brown-egg breed (Marans, Welsummer). The blue shell overlaid with brown pigment yields olive to deep green eggs. Second-generation crosses can deepen the shade.
Keeper's notes
Care follows the parent breeds; most are hardy in cool, wet climates. Egg shade varies bird to bird, so hatch or buy from breeders who track their crosses.
Where to find Olive Egger
Showing Great Lakes. Change it with the Near box up top.
Regional breeders with this breed on file (53)
Spring Valley, IL
Cherry Valley, IL
Sterling, IL
Fayetteville, IL
Huntley, IL
Godfrey, IL
Mcleansboro, IL
Marengo, IL
Marion, IL
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Regional hatcheries that carry it (1)
IN
Sourced from NPIP state directories, matched by the stock codes each participant registers. A flock may keep breeds beyond what it registers, so this list runs conservative.
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