Incubators Anonymous

[Overoberyl]

Good luck! I have one hen that is an off spring of an Amauracana that lays an olive egg. Her mother laid the aqua green eggs. I'm wondering how that happened. She came from an aqua egg.

Your hen is probably an Olive Egger, the offspring of blue egg layer and a dark brown layer (one of my favorite crosses!). There is an Olive Egger thread here somewhere...

Aracaunas (rumpless)= blue eggs, ameracaunas= olive, pink, EEs= mix of both so if hatchery somewhere along the line your americauna may have some of the other in her even though she came out of blue egg.

I do not think that is correct. Ameraucanas should lay a blue egg. Anything else is an EE, or could be an Olive Egger, which is made by crossing a blue egg layer and a dark brown layer. EE's are any non-standard Ameraucana, even if it came from a purebred Am line, if it doesn't meet the APA standard for one of the Ameraucana varieties, it's an EE.

 

[ki4got]

Quote: ameraucana with olive eggs means one parent was probably a DARK brown egg layer. if it hatched from a blue egg, then i'd say the sire was a marans or welsummer or similar breed.

and most olive eggers are basically EE's... related distantly to ameraucana or araucana, but not a truly recognized breed. araucana are rumpless and have ear tufts, ameraucana are bearded and muffed, with full tail/rump and both have pea combs... EE's typically also have beard/muff and pea comb, but can be any color. I've got an EE roo who is also crested with feathered legs, and one of my hatchery 'ameraucana' girls has stubs on her legs. all lay a mostly blue to blue-green egg (the roo hatched from a very blue egg).

here's a pic of my (very odd) EE roo. aka Weeble (weebs)

 

[Overoberyl]

ameraucana with olive eggs means one parent was probably a DARK brown egg layer. if it hatched from a blue egg, then i'd say the sire was a marans or welsummer or similar breed.

and most olive eggers are basically EE's... related distantly to ameraucana or araucana, but not a truly recognized breed. araucana are rumpless and have ear tufts, ameraucana are bearded and muffed, with full tail/rump and both have pea combs... EE's typically also have beard/muff and pea comb, but can be any color. I've got an EE roo who is also crested with feathered legs, and one of my hatchery 'ameraucana' girls has stubs on her legs. all lay a mostly blue to blue-green egg (the roo hatched from a very blue egg).

here's a pic of my (very odd) EE roo. aka Weeble (weebs)

He's so handsome!! Kind of looks like a splash laced red. Love the name too

I have a couple of neat OE's I hatched from juststruttin eggs, they are Cream Legbar/Penedesenca crosses, they look identical to Cream Legbar except they have pale legs instead of yellow. I'm hoping the F2 gen will be autosexing too.

 

[DMRippy]

Aracaunas (rumpless)= blue eggs, ameracaunas= olive, pink, EEs= mix of both so if hatchery somewhere along the line your americauna may have some of the other in her even though she came out of blue egg. That's my understanding anyhow first fire in newly installed woodstove last night and of course the humidity immediately changed in bator. Leveled out after a pot of water was set on stove. At first there was a sudden spike in temp but I was watching closely for it and held the bator open for a minute. Ingenious!

True Ameraucanas lay blue to green eggs not Olive. Olive Eggs come from a cross of a blue egg layer and a dark egg layer.

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: ameraucana with olive eggs means one parent was probably a DARK brown egg layer. if it hatched from a blue egg, then i'd say the sire was a marans or welsummer or similar breed.

and most olive eggers are basically EE's... related distantly to ameraucana or araucana, but not a truly recognized breed. araucana are rumpless and have ear tufts, ameraucana are bearded and muffed, with full tail/rump and both have pea combs... EE's typically also have beard/muff and pea comb, but can be any color. I've got an EE roo who is also crested with feathered legs, and one of my hatchery 'ameraucana' girls has stubs on her legs. all lay a mostly blue to blue-green egg (the roo hatched from a very blue egg).

here's a pic of my (very odd) EE roo. aka Weeble (weebs)

I like you roo

 

[TheH Klan of 10]

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[TAMMACLEAN]

Tomorrow is suppose to be hatch day!!! I figure between tomorrow and Wednesday. I also have a broody silkie who is sitting on 5 eggs. They are also suppose to hatch at the same time. I think this is the hardest part........

 

[ozexpat]

There is much confusion about Araucanas, Ameraucanas and Easter-Egger Chickens. Here is another attempt to explain the difference between the birds so that you become more educated and know what you are actually getting or what you have already been sold.

ARAUCANAS are rumpless (tail-less) and ear-tufted birds from South America are quite rare. They are known for laying blue eggs.

AMERAUCANAS - The American Poultry Association recognizes a bird called the Ameraucana, which lays colored eggs and has muffs and a beard, not ear tufts, and comes in standardized color varieties.

EASTER-EGGERS - Most of the so-called "Araucanas" or "Ameraucanas" in the US are mixes that carry some of the original genes and lay variously colored eggs: blue, green, or pinkish. These birds are sometimes (and more honestly) sold as Easter Egg chickens. They come in white and many other colors.

to me they are all cute but i reckon those blue and green eggs are the hardest to candle.

 

[ki4got]

There is much confusion about Araucanas, Ameraucanas and Easter-Egger Chickens. Here is another attempt to explain the difference between the birds so that you become more educated and know what you are actually getting or what you have already been sold.

ARAUCANAS are rumpless (tail-less) and ear-tufted birds from South America are quite rare. They are known for laying blue eggs.

AMERAUCANAS - The American Poultry Association recognizes a bird called the Ameraucana, which lays colored eggs and has muffs and a beard, not ear tufts, and comes in standardized color varieties.

EASTER-EGGERS - Most of the so-called "Araucanas" or "Ameraucanas" in the US are mixes that carry some of the original genes and lay variously colored eggs: blue, green, or pinkish. These birds are sometimes (and more honestly) sold as Easter Egg chickens. They come in white and many other colors.

to me they are all cute but i reckon those blue and green eggs are the hardest to candle.

i disagree... the hardest to candle IMO are marans. that deep dark brown is nearly impossible to see into. my blue eggs can be candled quite easily in comparisson.

 

[DMRippy]

The blue eggs can be very hard to candle. THE WORST is Olive Eggers. When you get the blue eggs covered by that dark coating it is almost IMPOSSIBLE to see in that egg. BUT Marans are harder than the blues, but not by much. It really depends on the blue eggs some are easier to candle than others.