F1 Olive Egger

These chicks are from my easter egger hens olive egger hens lavender ameraucana hens bred with a blue wheaten ameraucanaee rooster. We are experimenting with different breeding programs to offer a variety of chicks. Crossing a blue egg layer and dark egg layer results in a first generation olive egger also known as an f1 olive egger.
f1 olive egger

The word filial derives from the latin word filialis meaning of a son or daughter f1 therefore refers to first offspring the first generation resulting from crossing two different breeds for a specific purpose in this case to achieve eggs with olive coloured shells.

F1 olive egger. What is an f1 olive egger. F1 is an abbreviation for filial one. The chicks will have feathered legs and be any mix of beautiful colors. Our f1 generation hybrids do typically lay an olive colored egg however the olive can be in various shades and the potential does exist to lay eggs of different colors.

Though the plumage on this cross varies 95 of our olive eggers will lay an olive shade egg varying from lighter olive to very dark army green. They are created by crossing a dark brown egg layer with a blue egg layer. If you are interested in breeding for darker olive eggs it gets even more exciting. If you breed an f1 olive egger back to a dark egg layer you create a f2 olive egger which will hopefully lay a darker egg than her mother.

Our olive eggers were created by crossing some of our foundation stock of cream legbars black copper marans welsummers and blue ameraucanas. 12 olive egger hatching chicken eggs f1 f2. Our f1 generation hybrids do typically lay an olive colored egg however the olive can be in various shades and the potential does exist to lay eggs of different colors. Shipped with usps priority mail.