What the chicks of a Easter Egger and a Olive Egger look like and lay, worked out from both breeds' standards.
A Easter Egger hen crossed with a Olive Egger rooster gives you what keepers call a first-generation (F1) cross. Most pullets should lay green eggs (some may be blue or olive), 75–100% carry blue; the rest lay cream/tinted. Most chicks (75%) get a pea comb. Expect a medium bird, a good layer, calm, the average of the two parents.
Preset to a Easter Egger hen and a Olive Egger rooster. Change either side to see how the blue gene and the brown coat move the shell colour.
He never lays, so his blue gene is read from his mother's eggs.
Likely Blue (possibly Green): 75–100% blue-based; otherwise White.
Brown shade shifts with a hen's age, diet and stress, so identical genes still lay a little differently. Speckling and bloom are cosmetic and not modelled.
| Trait | Easter Egger hen | Olive Egger rooster | Chicks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comb type | Pea | Pea | Pea 75% · Single 25% |
| Barring | Not barred | Not barred | Not barred |
| Fibromelanosis | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| Skin color | White | White | White 75% · Yellow 25%yellow depends on a hidden carrier, so it could be 0%; a hatch or a known genotype can confirm (uncertain) |
| Leg color | Slate | Slate | Slate likely (both parents share it) |
| Trait | Easter Egger | Olive Egger | Chicks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frame height | medium | medium | medium |
| Egg production | good layer | good layer | good layer |
| Broodiness | rarely broody | rarely broody | rarely broody |
| Docility | calm | calm | calm |
| Bone density | medium | medium | medium |
| Foraging skill | good forager | good forager | good forager |
| Cold hardiness | cold-hardy | cold-hardy | cold-hardy |
Chicks land near the average of the two parents for these traits. Reaching one parent's extreme takes another generation of selection.
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Checked September 2026. Hybrids and breeds no reference covers are marked approximate. Egg colour on these pages follows one rule: Brown is any shade a buyer would call brown; Cream/tinted is off-white.