“Very happy for the most part; Rain is a great layer of perfect grayish blue sage green eggs, and is very calm! She went broody when my silkie did, which was ok, just a huge surpise. I let her sit on some eggs, because I knew she deserved to do whatever she wanted, and it felt mean to take it away. She hatched out one baby, and was a great mother to her chick. Only TWO WEEKS after raising and leaving her chick, she went compleatly broody again. I have a feeling this is going to be happening again and again. Still giving five stars but a little annoyed, since I didn't think this cross could possibly be broody with the breeds it crossed to make it.”
“Our Olive Egger Erica is amazing. She is a beautiful barred hen with a poof on her head. She started layer eggs just short of four months and in seven days has laid six eggs all with double yokes! They have ranged in size but are a dark olive green, sometimes speckled. She's a sweet hen and gets along with everyone. If I ever need to get more hens, I will definitely get another Olive Egger”
“Our Olive Egger, named Olive (obviously), has the sweetest personality! We didn‚Äôt predict she would become a favorite, but she is! When we got her, she was all black with a yellow dot on her head. Then black feathers came in and covered her yellow spot. We were sad, until we saw her little Mohawk! It is soooo cute, I hope it sticks around even when her comb is done growing. The Mohawk, olive color eyes, and overly friendly personality makes her melt my heart! I wish I could figure out how to add a picture to this review because ‚Äúseeing‚Äù her really is worth 1000 words!”
“We received two Olive Egger eggs in with our hatching eggs. They both hatched very healthy chicks. Olive Oyl and Sweet Pea....however Olive Oyl turned out to be an Oliver! They are are very sweet...even Oliver is a very sweet gentleman with the ladies. Not a bit of aggression so far at one year. But now, her first spring since hatching last summer, Sweer Pea has become the broody girl from hell, lol! That was unexpected! I am not letting her hatch eggs. So hopefully she will return to her sweet self and not hate me forever for chasing her off the nest, lol! I would like to get my dark Olive green eggs back soon!”
“I ordered 2 of these from MyPetChicken in October, 2019.
If all I received was my 1 hen that lays olive eggs, I'd wax poetic about this breed. My olive egger looks like a small cuckoo marans with added cheek tufts. The color of her egg is unique for an olive egger - it is almost grayish, and is one of my favorite colors in the egg basket (and I have 25 hens that lay various shades/colors). It is a source of compliments among the friends we like well enough to share eggs with. She lays surprisingly large eggs for her small build. And she is a reliable layer.
The other. Well, the other is...special. She looks like a cuckoo marans with no cheek tufts - only 3 times larger. And she's only 7 months old. She is, hands down, the largest chicken I've ever had. I'm including roosters in this non-hyperbolic statement. She has outgrown my Salmon Faverolle rooster, who could feed my entire neighborhood should his hormones overtake his good sense and he become sentenced to a crockpot burial. She is morbidly obese. Her legs, although robust in their own rite, look like toothpicks under her ever-growing largess. Like an elephant on stilts. She eats like a starved rat at a Golden Corral Buffet who worries it may never eat again. And she rarely lays eggs. Maybe once a week. She apparently puts all of her energy into her ever-expanding girth, and not into new calcium en-robed protein globules. When her appetite is finally sufficiently sated that she can bother to lay an egg (about once a week) she usually lays it somewhere in the run and not in the nesting boxes. It appears that she has trouble laying, abandons the nesting box, waddles around for a day or two, and then plops out her egg in the middle of the run with less shame than Lizzo has at the Grammy's. Likewise, over half the eggs she lays are so covered in bloom that at least half the egg is completely white. It's an oddity. When you are able to see the color, they are dark brown and heavily spotted - like a marans that identifies as a dalmatian. She is docile, but likely because she is too large to be anything but. Placated and drugged by food, she disturbs nothing but the feeder, which she constantly attacks with the furious passion of reunited long-lost lovers. I fear that my roosting bars are strained under her ever increasing weight. And my roosting bars are sturdy 2x4's. Mites don't attack her, they orbit her planetary size. Since an entire bag of feed is not worth the 1 egg she converts it to, I'm afraid that she is not long for my micro-farm and will soon need to find a new owner, or someone who has a pot big enough to cook her in.
Should MyPetChicken realize that they accidentally sent me a secret lab experiment rather than the OE I planned on, I will trade her back for the amount I've spent to feed her over 7 months, which must be north of $300...”
“Olivia is lovely. She is sweet and gets along with everyone. She is barred with a poof on her head. But her eggs are nowhere near olive. MyFavacauna lays a more olive egg (when she‚Äôs not broody). Olivia lays a pale blue/green egg. I have to struggle to figure out which one is not from my ameraucanas. She‚Äôs a reliable layer, and I will see what happens if I cross her back to a Welsummer, but her eggs, while pretty, are definitely not olive.”
“‚ÄúMary Oliver‚Äù was the second of my little flock to start laying, right at 5 months, and has given a lovely little sage colored egg pretty much every day since. She is bossy and chases her less-assertive Legbar and Polish sisters, but is friendly with people. She has beautiful Welsummer-like coloring.”
