Whether you want to add a splash of color to your own egg basket or wow customers who buy your farm-fresh eggs, Olive Eggers deliver! Their beautiful green eggs look stunning mixed in with classic brown and white eggs, turning every carton into a work of art. They’re friendly, productive, and sure to be the talk of the coop.
You will receive (1) bird per quantity ordered.
Feather Colors:
While the Olive Egger’s main claim to fame is their egg color, their feathers are a fun surprise. Because they’re created by crossing a brown egg layer with a blue egg layer, there’s no set color or pattern standard. Your flock might include a mix of blacks, blues, golds, browns, or even patchwork patterns. Every Olive Egger is uniquely beautiful!
Egg Gifting:
Expect 4–6 large olive-green eggs a week. Their earthy tones bring variety and charm to any egg collection, and they’re perfect for gifting or selling to anyone who loves a little flair in their breakfast. here is a 10% chance of an Olive Egger to lay another color other than green such as brown or blue. Those breeding or looking for that 'perfect' shade are encouraged to purchase multiple chicks.
Personality:
Olive Eggers are curious, friendly, and adaptable. They enjoy foraging, exploring, and interacting with their keepers. With their calm temperaments, they blend in beautifully with flocks of all sizes and personalities.
History:
Olive Eggers aren’t an old heritage breed—they’re a delightful hybrid! By pairing a dark brown egg layer, such as a Marans, with a blue egg layer, such as an Ameraucana, breeders created a bird that lays the rare and eye-catching olive-green egg. Over time, they’ve become a favorite among backyard keepers and small farms for their beauty, productivity, and show-stopping egg color.
Eggs they will gift:
Gifts 4-5 large green eggs a week. There is a 10% chance of an Olive Egger to lay another color other than green such as brown or blue. Those breeding or looking for that 'perfect' shade are encouraged to purchase multiple chicks.
Personality:
They are an active breed that does well in cold climates.
History: Our olive eggers are bred to lay the nicest green eggs using generations of different breeds to perfect olive egger bloodlines such as Marans (provides a rich darker color), Amerucanas (uses aqua blue to bring out the shade of green), Cream Legbars (uses sky blue to add green shade diversity), Rhode island (is a production brown egg layer to increase egg production), Isbar (naturally has green eggs with speckles), and Barred Plymouth Rock (often used with the cream Legbar to coin the bloodline mint cream bar green egg layer).
Sexing Method:
Vent sexing as a day old is most common sexing method for this breed. The accuracy of being reliably identifiable by external characteristics on average is 85-90%. Several communities have laws in which roosters are not allowed. Thus, industry standard is to offer as a female chick or pullet even though 10-15% will be accidental roosters. We are DIFFERENT because we care for any female covered chicks that end up being a rooster.
We understand that several families live in areas where city ordinances do not allow roosters. While industry standard does not provide credit or rooster returns for roosters that were sold as 'pullets', we guarantee female sexing by giving the boy a home and providing store credit based on orginal purchased price should you accidently get a rooster. If you do not want to risk falling in love with a chick that turns out to be a rooster, we also offer the option of DNA sexing services. DNA sexing is a significantly higher investment as cost averages 3x that of a female covered chick.
Chick: Olive Egger
Scheduling – Order Pick-Up Commitment
Standard Pick-Up Times
Saturdays: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Mondays: 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Book a Special accommodation appointment
Placing an order is your commitment to pick up your order based as described below:
Available Now Orders
Chickens (already hatched): Must be picked up within 6 days of purchase. Pick-up during standard times or by booking a special accommodation appointment.
Puppies & Kittens: “Go home” dates will be listed at purchase. You may also book an earlier pick-up appointment if available.
Feed & Supplies: Must be picked up within 1 year of purchase. Pick up at your convenience during standard pick-up times or book a special accommodation appointment.
Pre-Orders
A pre-order indicates the estimated month your animals will be ready for pick-up.
Once notified your order is ready, you must pick up within 6 days of notification (any time during the month it becomes available).
Notifications are sent via text to the number provided at checkout.
👉 At checkout, please verify that your phone number is accurate and that it can receive text messages.
DNA-Sexed Orders
DNA-sexed chicks must be picked up within 6 days of notification.
We are unable to extend free boarding.
If not picked up within 6 days, the order will be forfeited.
The DNA testing fee deposit is non-refundable, but store credit (minus the testing fee per bird) will be issued.
Order Abandonment
Placing an order is a commitment to being available for pick-up within the stated timeframe.
Refunds are not provided. Instead, store credit is issued for a future order.
Store credit is valid for up to 3 years from the date issued (per Colorado law).
Disclosure Statement (Colorado Law Compliance)
By placing an order, you acknowledge and agree to the following:
No Refund Policy: All sales are final. Refunds are not available for abandoned, forfeited, or canceled orders. Store credit may be issued as described above.
Store Credit Validity: Store credit is valid for up to three (3) years from the date of issuance, after which it may be considered abandoned property under Colorado law.
Customer Responsibility: Customers are responsible for timely pick-up within the stated windows (including the 1-year deadline for feed & supplies) and for providing accurate contact information. Please confirm at checkout that your phone number is correct and able to receive text messages.
Health & Welfare: Once animals or supplies are picked up, the customer assumes all responsibility for their current and future health and care.