OLIVE EGGER

If you’re looking to add some diversity to your fresh eggs, an Olive Egger is the chicken for you—as its name suggests, it lays beautiful olive-colored eggs. If you’re looking at creating your own hybrids, this is one you can make by mating a breed that lays dark-brown eggs with a breed that produces blue eggs, such as the Cream Legbar or Black Ameraucana. It’s not a heavy egg producer, but you will love the variety the olive eggs add to your egg basket.

• Origin: Cross between a dark-brown-egg-layer and a blue-egg-layer
• Purpose: Eggs, meat
• Climate: Tolerates most climates
• Temperament: Individualized personalities due to genetic diversity; however, Olive Eggers are generally calm
• Average weight: 6 to 8 pounds
• Egg color: Various shades of olive
• Egg size: Medium
• Egg production: 150 to 200 per year
• Feather color: Depends on coloring of parents
• Comb type: Varies