Hands on hatching and help

[SunHwaKwon]

OMG!! I HAVE AN AMERICAUNA/EASTER EGGER ABOUT TO HATCH!! IT WAS SUPPOSED TO HATCH 2-3 DAYS AGO! I THOUGHT IT WAS A GONER! I HAVE Americauna AND Easter EGGER Eggs In The Incubator and Stupid Me Forgot To Mark and Separate Them. Advice On Colors For Americauna And Easter Eggers. TIA

Advice on egg or chick colors? AmerAUcAna eggs will only be blue. For chick colors, try the search box and Google make sure you spell it correctly and that people are not mislabeling their EEs/ Americanas as Ameraucanas. Both breeds come in multiples colors. No muffs would likely indicate EE,but with muffs could be either.

 

[Ravynscroft]

OMG!! I HAVE AN AMERICAUNA/EASTER EGGER ABOUT TO HATCH!! IT WAS SUPPOSED TO HATCH 2-3 DAYS AGO! I THOUGHT IT WAS A GONER! I HAVE Americauna AND Easter EGGER Eggs In The Incubator and Stupid Me Forgot To Mark and Separate Them. Advice On Colors For Americauna And Easter Eggers. TIA

Egg color for Am's can actually vary quite widely... they shouldn't be full out green though, but tinted is more common than most think...

Chick down colors are simple... what color variety(ies) are the Ameraucanas supposed to be? That will give the best indication of what they should look like, but unless you got the very rare Silver variety if they are chipmunk striped at all then they are EE's...

 

[SunHwaKwon]

The only acceptable egg color is blue for Ameraucanas. http://ameraucanaalliance.org/faq.html Now, if the OP @MultipleAnimals was actually sold AmerIcanas, then they are EEs so mixing them up won't matter.

 

[babychicks7]

Many can't and nothing is wrong with that... just be aware that if you expect every rooster to go to a pet home or as someone's flock rooster, that is not realistic... as long as they have a good life up to processing, that is a better life than many get...

i understand that they go for some one else's dinner but i wont know that for sure so that is ok! im thinking about keeping some of these and selling the rest mainly the roosters for know many of my hens are getting to no laying age so want to keep things going. im thinking if i continue to hatch i will sell them young as a mixed run and let them worry about the roosters. i know most people here in missouri eat the roosters but as long as i dont know im ok with that !

 

[babychicks7]

Congrats on the pips! I'm on day 20 of a batch and up to 3 pips. The first pip has been sitting there for way over 24 hours but it pipped early on day 18 and is making a tiny bit of progress here and there, so I'm leaving it be. I like to keep the best chicks from each hatch and like Ravyn said, grow them out. Most of my chicks I sell. There's a good demand here for silkies.

oh so excited!! had the 2 pips yesterday about 11:30 got up this morning to find 5 little chicks ! as of now we have 8 little ones running around in there with 1 more for sure pip even had an upside downer that did it by its self ,was so happy about that one

as soon as these guys dry out a bit more going to move them to the brooder. i did have a strange color come out of a brown egg.. it is yellow? unless im mistaking it for a differant chick ,its the only one that is still really wet ??

 

[ShanandGem]

I'm a complete maroon, to paraphrase Bugs Bunny. I have a 6w reptile heating pad in the bottom of my Hovabator 1602, under the water tray. I turn my eggs by hand and when I have the incubator open I plug in the additional heater to get it back up to temps more quickly. It works really well, but you have to physically stand there and watch the thermometers (I have a digital at the bottom of the eggs, and one at the top) and unplug it when the floor temp reaches 100 degrees. Yesterday I wandered off and when I returned hours later it was 110 degrees on the floor of the bator!
I was sure everyone was cooked, but today I still have movement and am only unsure about one egg. It's one Buff Orpington and four of my bantam cross egg laying machines so nothing with a huge investment but it doesn't feel good to be a murderer :-(

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I'll be surprised if any of these guinea eggs make it all the way. I think the old LG is on it's way out. One side is running a good 2 degrees hotter than the other. I keep rotating the dang thing, but I'm not loosing sleep at night to do it so one side is usually lower than I like when I wake up. I think I will be investing in the Hovabator next spring before I start hatching again for myself. It'll be a miracle if these do anything.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

I'm a complete maroon, to paraphrase Bugs Bunny.  I have a 6w reptile heating pad in the bottom of my Hovabator 1602, under the water tray.  I turn my eggs by hand and when I have the incubator open I plug in the additional heater to get it back up to temps more quickly.  It works really well, but you have to physically stand there and watch the thermometers (I have a digital at the bottom of the eggs, and one at the top) and unplug it when the floor temp reaches 100 degrees.  Yesterday I wandered off and when I returned hours later it was 110 degrees on the floor of the bator!
I was sure everyone was cooked, but today I still have movement and am only unsure about one egg.  It's one Buff Orpington and four of my bantam cross egg laying machines so nothing with a huge investment but it doesn't feel good to be a murderer :-(

Yikes I've had something similar happen in my brinsea. They did make it but a few struggled in the beginning. Don't blame yourself. We all make mistakes. Hatching and brooding takes alot of work and sometimes your brain gets a bit scrambled.

I'll be surprised if any of these guinea eggs make it all the way.  I think the old LG is on it's way out.  One side is running a good 2 degrees hotter than the other. I keep rotating the dang thing, but I'm not loosing sleep at night to do it so one side is usually lower  than I like when I wake up.  I think I will be investing in the Hovabator next spring before I start hatching again for myself.  It'll be a miracle if these do anything.

That really sucks. I plan on investing in one for next spring. I love my brinsea but I need something that holds more eggs since I plan on selling chicks next year locally. Im hoping to have a few broodys too but want to save them for chicks I plan on keeping or selling as hens.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Yikes I've had something similar happen in my brinsea. They did make it but a few struggled in the beginning. Don't blame yourself. We all make mistakes. Hatching and brooding takes alot of work and sometimes your brain gets a bit scrambled.

That really sucks. I plan on investing in one for next spring. I love my brinsea but I need something that holds more eggs since I plan on selling chicks next year locally. Im hoping to have a few broodys too but want to save them for chicks I plan on keeping or selling as hens.

Can't really gripe, it's a LG9200, my sister had it about 3 years before I "borrowed" it and I have been hatching in it the last 2 years, so it's lived it's life for a cheep styro...lol


My dumbbutt nephew went and bought one of those plastic chinese knock offs last year and I scolded him for not talking to me first, of course it crapped out first use. SO I tell him, DON'T buy the new LG digitals, the Farm Innovators or the plastic knockoffs.I told him go for the Hovabators if he was going to get another one. My sister tells me he went and bought another one a week or so ago, so I asked him when he came down to get his chicks what he got...a LG from TSC!!!! I almost choked him. He's like well that's what you said to get. NO NO NO, that was the one I said NOT to get!!! I am going to strangle him before he turns 30 I swear! lol

 

[slordaz]

grrr, hen is off nest at day 17, still warm , should I grab the eggs and put them in the incubator?