Description
Our popular “overhatch olives” of 2020-2025 is back for Fall 2026 as it’s own listing. We’re filling flats of the incubators with olives this fall as it’s the last chance of 2026 to build flocks for 2027, and we’ll have plenty to share weekly into October.
Birds are offered in bulk at discount, just a box of mixed olives from all of our selections. Birds will average out around $11 to $13 each, versus the $23 we usually offer olives at. Straight run. No custom selections. Shipping between late August and mid October, through we can’t guarantee a ship week as orders are shipped in the order received. As my kid’s kindergarten teacher used to say— you get what you get and you don’t throw a fit! 😉
Bird types will include F1 olives, OE x OE, BC1, BC2, BC3, BC4 and B2B:
Our 2026 Fen & Forest Olive Egger mix is a blend of every olive egger we have on property, it’s like taking a walk along the whole spectrum of grass, moss, olives, stone, and bark found in our farm fields, prairie fen, and forest along the riparian corridors. Every dozen is different, but can include any of the following:
F1 Olives: Guaranteed Green layers
Fall F1 olives are a first generation cross between Ameraucana and Marans, and tend to have muffs, beards and feathered shanks. Because our roosters have been bred for the genetic tendency to deposit dark pigment, our F1 olice color can be surprisingly satisfying— a solid bright olive. Some will be blue copper plumage.
Grass, Bright Moss, Light Olive: Later Generation OE x OE Olives and OE x Marans
These olive egger to olive egger pairings bring lots of different plumages, but we have a lot of blue in the pens this year. Birds can have crests and/or muffs and beards.
Mid Olive, Deep Olive, Bark, Dark Soil: Backcross to Marans (BC1, BC2, BC3, BC4)
Backcrossing is a breeding strategy that condenses traits, and Marans have lots of traits we like to double down on! Birds will deposit more pigment on their eggshells in this cross, expect darker olives to bark. They can be really dark in the early spring! Backcross birds tend toward black with copper highlights that can range from copper collars to copper breasts with penciling and spangling.
Bright Olive, Blue Grass, Teal: Backcross to Blue (B2B)
Our backcrossed to blue pairings are mid to deep tone olives (either backcrosses or later gen olives) put back under a male that is homozygous for the blue egg shell gene. Lots of things can happen in these pairings, but the idea is to reassert the blue egg shell under a rich pigment depositing tendency. Backcross to blue birds can be black, blue, or ermine/paint.
Yes there will be speckles and blooms! ..;,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Before ordering, please be sure to read our policies page.
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