Easter egger egg

[NoAcres]

Can someone tell me how many days it typically takes to hatch Easter egger eggs in the incubator please?

 

[QueenMisha]

Pretty much the same as all chickens, approximately 21 days. My EEs seem to be firmly in the middle ground and often hatch exactly on day 21, whereas very small breeds and bantams tend to come out closer to day 20 and heavy breeds are usually late 21 or early-mid 22.

 

[NoAcres]

Thank you, tomorrow is day 21

 

[QueenMisha]

Congrats! If you're artificially incubating, be sure the humidity is at least 50%, and don't forget to stop turning. They should also be left in the incubator for 3-4 hours, or until they're dry and fluffy. Or, if a hen's doing the work for you, be sure she takes good care of them, and leave a small dish of feed and water near the nest so she doesn't have to leave at such a critical time.

 

[NoAcres]

Yes we are incubating them. We had them under a broody hen, but we have an egg eater and lost one, so brought them inside to incubate instead

 

[ourrune]

Hi i hope you dont mind i jump your post but i just got 8 easter egger eggs (one is white is that still an easter egger?) I recieved from a local farm. When i brought them home, some had been laid same day some day before i candled them because totally new to this and one had speckles all over when the led went on it and another had an internal circle on the inside at the fat end. Are these bad eggs or will i not know until day 8 of incubating? She said she had 70 percent hatch rate i thiught that depended on the incubator.

Are there any certain tips for incubating this breed?

 

[kuchchicks]

Hi i hope you dont mind i jump your post but i just got 8 easter egger eggs (one is white is that still an easter egger?) I recieved from a local farm. When i brought them home, some had been laid same day some day before i candled them because totally new to this and one had speckles all over when the led went on it and another had an internal circle on the inside at the fat end. Are these bad eggs or will i not know until day 8 of incubating? She said she had 70 percent hatch rate i thiught that depended on the incubator.

Are there any certain tips for incubating this breed?

My EE eggs are usually blue but on occasion they have been so lite blue that they look white-ish. That could be what you have. The speckles that you see may be pores in the egg shells. Some will say that they are not good to hatch but I have had had them hatch. They do tend to lose moisture quicker and the air cells tend to be a little on the bigger side. Make sure you are watching your air cells at days 7 and 14 and increase your humidity if the air cells look too big. As for the one with the internal circle I would say you are looking at the air cell. (Unless it looks like blood in which case it is a blood ring. I would doubt this though if you say the eggs are only on the day the were laid or 1 day old. They would not even be old enough to have anything growing yet).

The 70% she was talking about could have been her fertility rate. If she did mean her hatch rate, yes that is dependent on either the broody hen, the incubator, or genetics of the chicks.

Good luck!

 

[QueenMisha]

Hi i hope you dont mind i jump your post but i just got 8 easter egger eggs (one is white is that still an easter egger?) I recieved from a local farm. When i brought them home, some had been laid same day some day before i candled them because totally new to this and one had speckles all over when the led went on it and another had an internal circle on the inside at the fat end. Are these bad eggs or will i not know until day 8 of incubating? She said she had 70 percent hatch rate i thiught that depended on the incubator.

Are there any certain tips for incubating this breed?

Easter Eggers are more of a type than a true breed, because the stock is mixed and the only characteristics that are really selected for are 1. Muff/Beard 2. Slate legs and 3. Blue or Green egg. (Other things like personality and feather color, for example, being a wildcard). However, because breeding is not controlled very strictly, you will get the occasional Easter Egger who has, say, no muff/beard, and pink legs - or, as in your case, one which lays white eggs. (For reference: they can also lay brown, pink, grey, or tinted.)

I can usually tell whether an egg is developing properly by day 5-6, if the egg is a light color (white or green, for example). Development will start out as a light reddish dot, barely visible, typically (although not always) somewhere near the center of one side of the egg. The dot will soon develop bloodvessels which grow outward, looking not unlike the roots of a plant.

I incubate my EEs the same as any other breed. I actually have quite a bit of unwanted experience hatching hybrids of these; the last big hatch I did, I selected brown eggs for; I had one EE who I assumed was not laying, as I never saw any blue eggs. This was fine by me, as I didn't want any EE chicks, as the hen I had was not very hardy. It's ironic, I suppose; my EE turned out to be a brown egg layer, and the majority of the hatch were her (unwanted) offspring.

 

[ourrune]

Easter Eggers are more of a type than a true breed, because the stock is mixed and the only characteristics that are really selected for are 1. Muff/Beard 2. Slate legs and 3. Blue or Green egg. (Other things like personality and feather color, for example, being a wildcard). However, because breeding is not controlled very strictly, you will get the occasional Easter Egger who has, say, no muff/beard, and pink legs - or, as in your case, one which lays white eggs. (For reference: they can also lay brown, pink, grey, or tinted.)

I can usually tell whether an egg is developing properly by day 5-6, if the egg is a light color (white or green, for example). Development will start out as a light reddish dot, barely visible, typically  (although not always) somewhere near the center of one side of the egg. The dot will soon develop bloodvessels which grow outward, looking not unlike the roots of a plant.

I incubate my EEs the same as any other breed. I actually have quite a bit of unwanted experience hatching hybrids of these; the last big hatch I did, I selected brown eggs for; I had one EE who I assumed was not laying, as I never saw any blue eggs. This was fine by me, as I didn't want any EE chicks, as the hen I had was not very hardy. It's ironic, I suppose; my EE turned out to be a brown egg layer, and the majority of the hatch were her (unwanted) offspring.

Well thank you that is helpful information about the red dot thank you! Is that the only reason you didnt want easter eggers because yours wasnt hardy? I am new to the chicken world i only have 2 speckled sussex 1 salmon faverolle and 2 white silkies and now these potential easter eggers. I am not fond of how they look color wise. I prefer the grey ameruacanas but i read that the easter egger would lay up to 300 eggs a year and was on a list i found that was some of the top chickens to lay eggs. I also wanted blue eggs and settled for these greenish ones since they were the only local eggs closest to the ameraucana. I was going to buy off of my pet chicken. Com 3 ultra rare egg variety but i decided againist it since i have never hatched before and some of the breeds in the list werent what i wanted anyways. I actually didnt look up how their personalities are :/ normally i do do that. But i do think the muffs are cute thats why my faverolle is my favorite.

 

[QueenMisha]

Well thank you that is helpful information about the red dot thank you! Is that the only reason you didnt want easter eggers because yours wasnt hardy? I am new to the chicken world i only have 2 speckled sussex 1 salmon faverolle and 2 white silkies and now these potential easter eggers. I am not fond of how they look color wise. I prefer the grey ameruacanas but i read that the easter egger would lay up to 300 eggs a year and was on a list i found that was some of the top chickens to lay eggs. I also wanted blue eggs and settled for these greenish ones since they were the only local eggs closest to the ameraucana. I was going to buy off of my pet chicken. Com 3 ultra rare egg variety but i decided againist it since i have never hatched before and some of the breeds in the list werent what i wanted anyways. I actually didnt look up how their personalities are

normally i do do that. But i do think the muffs are cute thats why my faverolle is my favorite.

Sorry for the late response. Yes, mine was a bird of poor vitality. My flock carries Marek's disease, and every single one of her offspring fell to paralysis. They simply weren't strong birds. I've had much better luck with other hen's offspring; although, the last batch she produced before I sent her to freezer camp are doing not so bad; it's possible they ended up with their father's vigor instead of their mother's.

Most EE's will produce closer to 250 eggs per year; leave the 300+s to the high-production hybrids and the Leghorns.

I don't like My Pet Chicken. Their products are alright, but their eggs and fowl are not necessarily of such good quality. I have heard stories of awful hatch rates and even infertile eggs coming from them.