← All breeds Olive Egger Olive Egger breed profile: Olive eggs, pea comb, slate legs, medium, good layer.
Standard at a glance This is an approximate profile for a rarer or variable breed. Check it against your own standard.
Eggs
Comb Pea comb
Legs Slate
Skin White Size, laying and temperament
Frame height medium
Egg production good layer
Broodiness rarely broody
Docility calm
Bone density medium
Foraging skill good forager
Cold hardiness cold-hardy On the app's 1 to 5 scale. Load this breed as a goal and every bird you score is matched against it.
Crosses with Olive Egger What a Olive Egger hen throws with a rooster of each breed. Open one for both directions and the full genetics.
× Ameraucana Green eggs, pea comb × Araucana Green eggs, pea comb × Barred Plymouth Rock Olive or Brown eggs, pea comb × Bielefelder Olive or Brown eggs, pea comb × Black Australorp Olive or Brown eggs, pea comb × Black Copper Marans Olive or Brown eggs, pea comb × Blue Andalusian Green or Cream/tinted eggs, pea comb × Buff Orpington Olive or Brown eggs, pea comb × Cochin Olive or Brown eggs, pea comb × Delaware Olive or Brown eggs, pea comb × Dominique Olive or Brown eggs, walnut comb × Easter Egger Green eggs, pea comb × Faverolles Olive or Brown eggs, pea comb × Golden Comet Olive or Brown eggs, pea comb × ISA Brown Olive or Brown eggs, pea comb × Jersey Giant Olive or Brown eggs, pea comb × Legbar Green eggs, pea comb × Light Brahma Olive or Brown eggs, pea comb × New Hampshire Olive or Brown eggs, pea comb × Polish Green or Cream/tinted eggs, pea comb × Rhode Island Red Olive or Brown eggs, pea comb × Silkie Olive or Brown eggs, pea comb × Silver-Laced Wyandotte Olive or Brown eggs, walnut comb × Speckled Sussex Olive or Brown eggs, pea comb × Welsummer Olive or Brown eggs, pea comb × White Leghorn Green or Cream/tinted eggs, pea comb Now with your own birds Load the Olive Egger standard as your breeding goal in one tap. Add your flock, set a breeding goal, and the pairing engine ranks every hen and rooster you own against it. Free for up to 15 birds.
Sources Breed standards and profiles The Livestock Conservancy: breed pages and the "Pick a Breed" comparison chart (egg colour, rate of lay, broodiness, temperament, foraging, cold hardiness) Oklahoma State University, Breeds of Livestock: chickens (comb, skin and shank colour, egg colour, weights, origin) University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension A2880, Chicken Breeds and Varieties (egg colour, skin colour, comb, class and use) American Poultry Association, recognised breeds and varieties (which breeds and varieties are standardised) The Poultry Club of Great Britain, breed pages (British and rare breeds) 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.