Backcrossed Olive Egger Chicks (BC1/BC2)

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Backcrossed Olive Egger Pairings

Our olive egger pens are under constant rotation. For Spring 2024, 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 to bark pigmentation, or can sometimes result in a mauve or even gray or mustard egger if under a heavy bloom.

Note: Backcrosses to our Black Copper Marans can look very similar to their pure-bred Black Copper Marans lineage, so you’ll want to be careful to not mix them up.