[Shipping in August-September] Assorted Backcrossed Olive Egger Half Dozen Hatching Eggs

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Backcrossed Olive Egger Pairings

Our olive egger pens are under constant rotation. This Summer/Fall we’ve put our resident first gen olive egger birds (i.e. legbar under marans or ameraucana under marans) back under our heavy bloom Black Copper Marans males for a cross often called BC1 for short (first back cross). And we’ve put our resident BC1 birds back under Black Copper Marans for a second back cross (BC2). Back crosses tend to deepen the olive egg color to a rich and darker olive, or can sometimes result in a mauve egger if the blue gene is lost. We’re also experimenting with first gen and later gen hens back under Ameraucana.

This is an assorted olives hatching egg listing. The eggs you receive will range from light green with speckles or gray bloom, to mid green, to darker olives— it’s breeder’s choice curated for you the same day it’s laid by the girls. Backcrossed egg color will generally intensify in the next generation toward darker olive and bark colors when under a brown-pigment depositing male, or toward spearmint/teals when under a male with genetics for blue egg shells. The majority (2/3rds or more) of our olives are under Marans at this time.

Note: birds back crossed to our Black Copper Marans can sometimes look very similar to their pure-bred Black Copper Marans cousins, so you’ll want to be careful to not mix them up. Backcrossed to Marans can lose the lose the blue egg shell underneath the pigment, resulting in browns and barks.

This limited late summer listing will ship in August and September.