EE is Easter Egger. It is used for chickens that do not meet the american poultry association definition of ameraucana according to their standard. It has come to be used to described nearl all blue egg shell chickens that do not meet the standard though, including Crested Cream Legbar crosses...
Somewhere in that time it happened. The remnants of the virus are part of the genetic code of blue egg layers. It is weird that the geneticists find that stuff in DNA. Apparently we have some of these virus strands left from Neanderthals. Some of our weird auto immune diseases might be when they...
It is rather funny how they get. Did you see the recent OE discussion about Blue egg color and origins of Cream Legbars?
A couple of Months ago there was an article about where the Blue gene came from. Apparently the Jungle fowl that was domesticated and is the ancestor of our domestic chicken...
Yes, the Brinsea with the pump would be your best bet. A bunch of experimenting with humidity levels and of course weighing the eggs and no Porous eggs used.
It looks like it may take some extra days too.
I did find this:
http://en.aviagen.com/assets/Tech_Center/Ross_Tech_Articles/RossTechNote_HatchingAltitudes2013_EN.pdf
I think 7000 would work if you followed the guidelines.
No Dry hatching though!