I have only had my five little ladies for a few months now three have started laying, I got 4 different breeds for egg colour, looks & personalities & I love them so much, have seen a couple lay their eggs & thought how clever they are, watching this video has made me even more in awe of what wonderful creatures they are, thank you for explaining it so well
Awesome information. I have a friend who has been breeding her BCM to get Olive eggers. After listening to these videos, I now kinda understand what she has been telling me that was Greek before. I cant wait Ronald her if she has been watching videos by 14 Acres.
I saw rainbow eggs for the first time on your Instagram and I’ve been inspired ever since. I couldn’t have chickens yet at this point. Now that tu have a large coop I’m excited to start breeding. My first girls are just coming into lay now this week ❤
Loved the video! Amazing! Would love to see a video on your set up…..coop, runs, incubators, etc. As well as, a beginners guide to a rainbow basket. Your work is incredible.
Great video. I have a brahma rooster and was hoping to incubate eggs from my ameraucana hens hoping for a decent olive egger. Realizing that even if I bred the olive egger back to the brahma rooster, it wouldn't produce a darker olive!
Can't wait to hear more about your BCM and splash OE roos. I have one of each right now, as well as a 7 wk old OE roo (marans hen covered by red-brown AM roo) in my brooding pen. 🙂
awesome education from this video i now subscribed and will watch your past videos soon. not all of them but all the good chicken ones. i do not want to learn genetics it looks kind of tricky. but show us how to do it. this video was the perfect start for me.
So very interesting in figuring out the color Genetics. I breed Dual Purpose Labrador Retrievers and I DNA test all of our stock they we feel are qualified to continue with our program in producing the breed standard and improving the standard. We had a Starlight Olive Egger and we didn't get that olive color of egg I was really wanting to have in our rainbow basket which was a disappointment but she turned out to be one of my favorite hens anyway. I love what you're doing with your breeding program will be following you closely so I can learn and glean from your experiences. Thank you for sharing and doing what you're doing and would love to see what your hens look like that produce these beautiful eggs.😊❤🐣❤️
Such informative information!❤️🐓 We’ve loved following you on Instagram for awhile and love seeing all the opportunities you’ve been receiving! Keep going you’re an inspiration to us all.
I love your content! Definitely one of my favorite accounts to follow on social media. And I just discovered you’re on TH-cam as well! Love learning from you!
So excited that I got a few BCM roos in my last order. I’m still a few months out from breeding them with my Easter eggers. I have so much more to learn. Thank you for posting.
I’ve learned so much from you already in such a short time! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us! Can’t wait to see more videos. Best of luck with your new channel. God Bless!
This is so fascinating! I just hatched some back crossed olive eggers and some F1 olive eggers that I had won. Now I understand what those things actually mean! I love your channel so far
So fun!! Thank you so much for doing this! ❤️ I’m really excited to hear what you have to say about the OE roosters!! I have a few out there and wondered if I should keep one.
This is an awesome video!! Thank you so much for the information! I’m hoping in years to come that I can start breeding for egg color. Beautiful eggs 😊
Great video! I have a 7 year old EE hen that lays the prettiest blue eggs occasionally. At her age, would they still be viable? She’s in my “retirement” pen with a Welsummer roo
Love the information! I’ve got a Question though on proving cockerels genetics. Are you doing a test hatch say 10 chicks ( hopefully 10 pullets 😅) and then growing them out to get a % of egg color hatched. Or are you crossing back with a known genetic like blue/ blue? Thank you.
The only way to prove his egg color genetics is to breed the OE rooster to a white egg laying hen….raise those chicks to the point of lay and see what you get. The hen/hens can’t apply any pigments to their shells in order to know what genetics he carries
@@THEFOURTEENACRES thanks for getting back so quickly! So breed him back to a leghorn or in my case maybe my Sicilian buttercups or my lonesome white faced black Spanish! So then if he is homozygous for blue egg 100% of offspring will be light light green egg layers?
TY for going into the details of explaining! If I am dealing with just maran x ameraucana crosses, should i only select the chicks with pea combs to keep for higher changes of olive eggs?
That is the way I select my chicks to keep out of my back crosses. If you’re talking about first generation (F1) OEs out of a True Ameraucana and a Marans…..they will all have pea combs and lay olive eggs.
@@jennyli5873 After the first generation is when I use pea combs as an identifier. Because the pea comb gene and the blue egg gene are closely related, it’s a good way to guess who will actually lay olive.
Amazing video! Very informative. Could you please do a video or explain how you keep your roosters and hens? Like I’m trying to figure out how I would keep a black maran and an Easter egger rooster at once and not get the fertile eggs mixed up. I don’t even have chickens yet just researching so maybe this is really basic and I just don’t know.
Fantastic video. So clearly explained. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Is an Easter egger just another name for a cross breed? I am confused about it as I am new to this. It is not very common here in Australia.
Hey, that was very informative. Thanks a lot for making this video Although I have a question, I have an ameraucana that lays light green eggs. Can I cross the Ameraucana with a white egg-laying rooster to get those blue-tinted eggs?
If she lays green eggs, she is an Easter Egger, not an Ameraucana. She has one blue egg gene, one white, and some other genes that add brown/tan pigment. If you cross her with a white egg layer, you will get green and tan layers
Will you leave the eggs out that you dipped in water? Or refrigerator? I’m looking for advice because some of my eggs have gotten a little wet because of rain. Are they still good to leave out? Thanks 😊 (it’s super hard to find specific advice sometimes 😅)
What matters is that he hatched from a dark egg. His feather color will only determine what color chicks he throws. I love using splash birds! They make interesting color babies. I typically keep a Black Copper Marans rooster, and a blue and splash Olive Egger rooster.
How do you keep your roosters from fighting over ladies? Do you let them free range. My goal is to have a rainbow basket I have a Olive egger right now, the others lay a dark brown and then two lay tan.
Beyond the first generation, I sell them as “Rainbow Layers”. But, I never get a boring tan/brown from any of my back crosses or mixes. People are rarely disappointed
@@THEFOURTEENACRES exactly. I took care of road island reds,barred rock and leg horns when I was a kid on the ranch. Now I've started my own back yard flocks. I have iamsamani, ameroucana, aroucanna, black copper moran, a brahma and an astrolop
@@muhammadsameedqureshi7531 Legbars have 2 blue egg genes. If she is a pure bred Cream Legbar, you’ll get 100% olive layers. But not only that…..you’ll be able to know the sex when they hatch. Crossing a solid male over a single barred female creates sex-linked barring. The male chicks will hatch with a white dot on their heads. The females won’t have it
Hi my name is Wendy, Do you sell eggs we can hatch or even better can we buy female chickens from you. I just love your color choices and would love to have our own colored egg chicks. We live in Long Beach Washington Thank you.
I have only had my five little ladies for a few months now three have started laying, I got 4 different breeds for egg colour, looks & personalities & I love them so much, have seen a couple lay their eggs & thought how clever they are, watching this video has made me even more in awe of what wonderful creatures they are, thank you for explaining it so well
Thank you! Sounds like an amazing flock♥️
Awesome information. I have a friend who has been breeding her BCM to get Olive eggers. After listening to these videos, I now kinda understand what she has been telling me that was Greek before. I cant wait Ronald her if she has been watching videos by 14 Acres.
I saw rainbow eggs for the first time on your Instagram and I’ve been inspired ever since. I couldn’t have chickens yet at this point. Now that tu have a large coop I’m excited to start breeding. My first girls are just coming into lay now this week ❤
Loved the video! Amazing! Would love to see a video on your set up…..coop, runs, incubators, etc. As
well as, a beginners guide to a rainbow basket. Your work is incredible.
Thanks so much for the feedback! I’m adding all of those topics to my running list👍🏼
We are getting some chickens soon. So excited to have fresh eggs and more fertility in our garden!
Great video. I have a brahma rooster and was hoping to incubate eggs from my ameraucana hens hoping for a decent olive egger. Realizing that even if I bred the olive egger back to the brahma rooster, it wouldn't produce a darker olive!
Very interesting information & good video ..
Can't wait to hear more about your BCM and splash OE roos. I have one of each right now, as well as a 7 wk old OE roo (marans hen covered by red-brown AM roo) in my brooding pen. 🙂
THANK YOU SO, SO MUCH!
I've been searching for this interesting genetic information for 5 years!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I’m so happy you have a channel now! Can’t wait to continue to learn and watch you! Thank you!
Thank you!! I’m taking a poll on suggested topics for new videos. Let me know if there’s something specific you’d like to hear more about♥️
That's a beautiful basket!!
Thank you for the helpful info!!
Amazing! The information on the bloom... wow! I don't have words! I'm stunned, astonished!!!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Very helpful!
Thsnks for all the info!
You’re awesome! I love your eggs and information.
Thank you much. Really want to get some Arachana and a Miran rooster to crossbread fr colored eggs. Thanks from Texas
Beautiful ❤️
awesome education from this video i now subscribed and will watch your past videos soon. not all of them but all the good chicken ones. i do not want to learn genetics it looks kind of tricky. but show us how to do it. this video was the perfect start for me.
Your girls lay the most beautiful eggs!
Thank you ♥️
Great work
Great video! Fascinating genetics information. I’m just getting into incubating and planning to create some olive eggers.
🐓Awesome information👍🐔
Beautiful eggs
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! I’m really hoping to breed for some pink egg laying hens.
So very interesting in figuring out the color Genetics. I breed Dual Purpose Labrador Retrievers and I DNA test all of our stock they we feel are qualified to continue with our program in producing the breed standard and improving the standard. We had a Starlight Olive Egger and we didn't get that olive color of egg I was really wanting to have in our rainbow basket which was a disappointment but she turned out to be one of my favorite hens anyway. I love what you're doing with your breeding program will be following you closely so I can learn and glean from your experiences. Thank you for sharing and doing what you're doing and would love to see what your hens look like that produce these beautiful eggs.😊❤🐣❤️
Such informative information!❤️🐓 We’ve loved following you on Instagram for awhile and love seeing all the opportunities you’ve been receiving! Keep going you’re an inspiration to us all.
Thank you so much!
Love it! Your rainbow eggs are goals !! 🐥❤️🌈
Thanks for watching ♥️
A found your channel today - very informative. Thank you and love from Australia 👍
Thanks so much!
Love seeing all the colorful eggs. ♥️
Thanks!
I love your content! Definitely one of my favorite accounts to follow on social media. And I just discovered you’re on TH-cam as well! Love learning from you!
Well yay!! Thanks so much for following along!
So excited that I got a few BCM roos in my last order. I’m still a few months out from breeding them with my Easter eggers. I have so much more to learn. Thank you for posting.
That's awesome! Sounds like you're off to a great start
Love the Video I want to have rainbow eggs one day when I move and have land. Cannot wait these are amazing videos
Thanks so much!
Love watching your videos. Miss you!
Hey Ana! Miss you too!
Love watching all your videos and learning so much 🙂
Thanks for following along!
I’m obsessed with these eggs! Hoping to have my own olive eggers here soon!
Thanks for watching ♥️
Thank you soooo much for such a great video. I truly appreciate how well you explained everything. Have a blessed day
Thanks for watching!
This is so good! I was going to ask about the OE Roo’s- so tricky!
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I’ve learned so much from you already in such a short time! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us! Can’t wait to see more videos. Best of luck with your new channel. God Bless!
Thanks so much Allison!
This is so fascinating! I just hatched some back crossed olive eggers and some F1 olive eggers that I had won. Now I understand what those things actually mean! I love your channel so far
Yay!! Thanks for following along!
So fun!! Thank you so much for doing this! ❤️ I’m really excited to hear what you have to say about the OE roosters!! I have a few out there and wondered if I should keep one.
Thanks for following along! I see many OE videos in our future👍🏼
I wanna learn!
This is an awesome video!! Thank you so much for the information! I’m hoping in years to come that I can start breeding for egg color. Beautiful eggs 😊
Thanks for watching♥️
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. My dream is to one day be able to breed for colored eggs.
Thanks for following along! And, keep dreaming friend♥️
Great video! I have a 7 year old EE hen that lays the prettiest blue eggs occasionally. At her age, would they still be viable? She’s in my “retirement” pen with a Welsummer roo
You should write a book!
Love the information! I’ve got a Question though on proving cockerels genetics.
Are you doing a test hatch say 10 chicks ( hopefully 10 pullets 😅) and then growing them out to get a % of egg color hatched. Or are you crossing back with a known genetic like blue/ blue? Thank you.
The only way to prove his egg color genetics is to breed the OE rooster to a white egg laying hen….raise those chicks to the point of lay and see what you get. The hen/hens can’t apply any pigments to their shells in order to know what genetics he carries
@@THEFOURTEENACRES thanks for getting back so quickly! So breed him back to a leghorn or in my case maybe my Sicilian buttercups or my lonesome white faced black Spanish!
So then if he is homozygous for blue egg 100% of offspring will be light light green egg layers?
❤
If you have a white egg rooster over rainbow laying hens what colors would they produce? Just lighter shades of whatever hen they breed?
Totally depends on the egg color genes in your rainbow layers. Chicks will get one copy from each parent
TY for going into the details of explaining! If I am dealing with just maran x ameraucana crosses, should i only select the chicks with pea combs to keep for higher changes of olive eggs?
That is the way I select my chicks to keep out of my back crosses. If you’re talking about first generation (F1) OEs out of a True Ameraucana and a Marans…..they will all have pea combs and lay olive eggs.
@@THEFOURTEENACRES What about after F1 generation? Does it start becoming less reliable to select pea combs
@@jennyli5873 After the first generation is when I use pea combs as an identifier. Because the pea comb gene and the blue egg gene are closely related, it’s a good way to guess who will actually lay olive.
Amazing video! Very informative. Could you please do a video or explain how you keep your roosters and hens? Like I’m trying to figure out how I would keep a black maran and an Easter egger rooster at once and not get the fertile eggs mixed up. I don’t even have chickens yet just researching so maybe this is really basic and I just don’t know.
I have separate chicken yards/runs for different roosters and breeding groups
@@THEFOURTEENACRES Ok thank you!
Can I get a list of which chickens breed with other to get color eggs I have FSH muscular dystrophy and want to learn thank you so much
Fantastic video. So clearly explained. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Is an Easter egger just another name for a cross breed? I am confused about it as I am new to this. It is not very common here in Australia.
Yes. An Easter Egger is a mixed breed bird who hopefully carries one blue egg gene. They typically lay blue or light green eggs.
Can I still get decent rainbow eggs if I am just buying hatchery chicks? Or would I need to buy hatching eggs to get these vivid colors?
I recommend buying the best quality Black Copper Marans you can afford. Then use that BCM rooster with your hatchery blue and green egg laying hens
Hey, that was very informative. Thanks a lot for making this video
Although I have a question, I have an ameraucana that lays light green eggs. Can I cross the Ameraucana with a white egg-laying rooster to get those blue-tinted eggs?
If she lays green eggs, she is an Easter Egger, not an Ameraucana. She has one blue egg gene, one white, and some other genes that add brown/tan pigment. If you cross her with a white egg layer, you will get green and tan layers
Will you leave the eggs out that you dipped in water? Or refrigerator? I’m looking for advice because some of my eggs have gotten a little wet because of rain. Are they still good to leave out? Thanks 😊 (it’s super hard to find specific advice sometimes 😅)
Mine will stay out on the counter, but are the first to be eaten
Does the color of the marans rooster you start with matter. I have a splash marans rooster
What matters is that he hatched from a dark egg. His feather color will only determine what color chicks he throws. I love using splash birds! They make interesting color babies. I typically keep a Black Copper Marans rooster, and a blue and splash Olive Egger rooster.
How do you keep your roosters from fighting over ladies? Do you let them free range. My goal is to have a rainbow basket I have a Olive egger right now, the others lay a dark brown and then two lay tan.
If you sell and F2 olive Egger, how can you tell the egg color it will lay? Are people upset when it doesn’t lay the green but brown?
Beyond the first generation, I sell them as “Rainbow Layers”. But, I never get a boring tan/brown from any of my back crosses or mixes. People are rarely disappointed
Did you buy these marans from a hatchery or a breeder?
Only from reputable breeders with super dark eggs
What do recommend. To make my easter Eggers lay darker blue and green eggs???
You can’t change a hen’s egg color. Do you mean how to breed them to change the egg colors in subsequent generations?
@@THEFOURTEENACRES exactly. I took care of road island reds,barred rock and leg horns when I was a kid on the ranch. Now I've started my own back yard flocks. I have iamsamani, ameroucana, aroucanna, black copper moran, a brahma and an astrolop
I'm still VERY MUCH new at this. But I'm enjoying our birds a lot
I'd like find out how to breed for deep "Robin's egg" turquoise blue.
There’s no real formula for that. But in order to get true blue eggs you need to stick with pure breeds that lay blue eggs and breeds that lay white.
I can't understand, crossing a BCM roo over blue egger will create a 100% olive egger or 50%?
It depends on if the hen has one or two blue egg genes. If she has 2 then you will get 100% olive layers. If she only has one, you’ll get 50%
@@THEFOURTEENACRES how to know that? I'll cross cream legbar hen with BCM roo. What is the possibilities?
@@muhammadsameedqureshi7531 Legbars have 2 blue egg genes. If she is a pure bred Cream Legbar, you’ll get 100% olive layers. But not only that…..you’ll be able to know the sex when they hatch. Crossing a solid male over a single barred female creates sex-linked barring. The male chicks will hatch with a white dot on their heads. The females won’t have it
@@THEFOURTEENACRES omgg thank you so much!✨
I have mostly brown and white layers. Was hoping for EE hens but they are ALL roos. :(
Sounds like my luck!
Hi my name is Wendy, Do you sell eggs we can hatch or even better can we buy female chickens from you. I just love your color choices and would love to have our own colored egg chicks. We live in Long Beach Washington Thank you.
Leslie! I’m so grateful for you 🙏🏻 Thank you for always sharing your knowledge with us. God bless you! ❤️ Lindsey (@thepaisleyhomestead on Insta)
Thank you Lindsey! I don’t know why I am just now seeing this, but this means so much to me! God bless you as well🖤
I wish i could get easter n olive Eggers but its beyond my reach i mean i live in kashmir india n usa is too too far