Fifty Shades of Green – Olive Egger Hatching Eggs

From soft mint greens to deep, rich olives... and everything in between!

If there's one thing I love, it's a beautiful basket of GREEN eggs! 💚

Our Fifty Shades of Green collection is one of my favorite breeding programs here at Freshly Picked Chicks. Years of intentional breeding, backcrossing, and selecting for egg color, speckles, and blooms have gone into creating this collection.

This isn't just a dozen Olive Egger eggs. It's a collection of genetics from several of our breeding pens, including our newest project, Olive Oasis!

What's Included in Fifty Shades of Green?

F1 Olive Eggers – Where It All Begins!

Our first-generation Olive Eggers are created by crossing blue egg layers with dark brown egg layers. Our blue egg breeding stock is DNA tested for the homozygous blue egg gene (O/O), allowing us to confidently produce F1 offspring that inherit a blue egg gene.

The hatching eggs themselves may be blue, brown, or speckled, depending on the cross, but the goal is pullets that lay beautiful shades of green and olive.

Multigenerational Olive Eggers – BC1 through BC4

This is where things get REALLY fun!

Through multiple generations of selective breeding and backcrossing, we've worked toward richer olive tones, heavier speckling, beautiful blooms, and unique feather patterns.

These eggs can range from soft sage and mossy greens to deep olive, chocolate, and everything in between.

Because these are multigenerational hybrids, offspring can inherit different combinations of egg color genes. Some pullets will lay green or olive eggs, while others may lay shades of brown.

Olive Oasis – Our Homozygous Olive Egger Project

One of our newest and most exciting projects!

Our Olive Oasis pen features DNA-confirmed O/O Olive Egger roosters over selected Olive Egger hens.

The goal is to produce offspring that consistently inherit the blue egg gene while continuing to develop those beautiful, rich olive tones.

We're still working on perfecting this project, but I'm excited about the possibilities!

What Color Eggs Will My Chicks Lay?

That's the million-dollar question! 😂

With multigenerational Olive Eggers, there is no guarantee that the egg color you hatch from will be the same color your future pullets lay.

You may hatch a chick from a beautiful dark olive egg that eventually lays brown, or a chick from a brown egg that grows up to lay a gorgeous green!

A few things to know:

• F1 crosses from our O/O blue egg breeding stock inherit a blue egg gene.
• Multigenerational crosses can produce both green and brown egg layers, depending on the pairing.
• Our Olive Oasis project is focused on increasing the consistency of blue egg gene inheritance.
• Speckles, blooms, and egg color intensity can vary from hen to hen.
• Intentional Breeding Matters!

I don't just choose the prettiest eggs and hope for the best. Every generation is evaluated for egg color, speckling, bloom, and the genetics I want to carry forward.

All hatching eggs are labeled by breeding pen so you'll know exactly which cross you're hatching.

Please Remember: These are hybrid Olive Eggers, not a standardized breed, and they will not breed true. Egg color, feather patterns, and other characteristics will vary between offspring.

That's part of what makes Fifty Shades of Green so much fun! 💚