Chicken breed
Olive Egger
Olive is a brown coat laid over a blue shell, so the shade depends on both parents: usually a Marans or Welsummer on a blue-egg bird. First-generation birds are the most even in colour. Second-generation (F2) birds vary more, some greener and some browner.
Hatch Index lists 3 varieties of Olive Egger from 6 hatcheries, and 2 are in stock today. The cheapest sexed pullet you can order now is Olive Egger from Townline Hatchery at $7.35. Straight run starts at $6.15.
Listed now
| Variety | Hatcheries | Stock | Sexed pullet from | Straight run from | Min order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olive Egger | 6 | 3 of 4 in stock | $7.35 | $6.15 | 12 |
| F2 Olive Egger | 1 | 1 of 1 in stock | $12.99 | $10.39 | — |
| Olive Speckled Egger | 1 | Sold out | — | — | — |
Prices are per bird, from listings that can be ordered today, and change through the day. Sold-out varieties are shown faded. Sold by: Cackle Hatchery, Purely Poultry, Townline Hatchery, Alchemist Farm, Freedom Ranger Hatcheries, The Chick Hatchery.
What the Olive Egger is like
- Egg colour
- Olive
- Eggs a year
- About 180 to 250
- Grown weight
- 5 lb hen, 6.5 lb rooster
- Temperament
- Calm
- Climate
- Cold hardy
- Goes broody
- Rarely
- Kept for
- Egg laying
- Origin
- Cross of a blue-egg and a dark-brown-egg breed
- American standard
- Not recognised; it is a cross, not a breed
General traits of the breed, from the breed standards and long-running references. A hatchery's own line can differ, most of all in egg colour and numbers.