Thread formerly known as Hatch day is today

[Chicken Crazy12]

I just threw out 10 unfertile duck eggs.. poo on that. But my friends turkeys, scary chinese goose, and mystery ducks are growing GREAT. And one little Americauna. (which I am now attached to). Those are teeny tiny little eggs! I think I might keep it.

So here's my question: Someone please explain the difference between..

Americana
Americauna
Olive Egger
Easter Egger

Americana, Americauna and Ameracauna are all misspellings of "Ameraucana"
Hatcheries that are selling EE's (Easter Eggers) often misspell this as well as actual breeders, so look out for that. It just makes things so confusing when people don't use the proper spelling of Ameraucana.

EE's (Easter Eggers) - Are the hatcheries version of the Ameraucana, but they are not true Ameraucanas. They often have green legs and they can lay blue, green, and pink eggs as well as variouse shades in between such as olive, brown, etc..

Ameraucanas - If they are true Ameraucanas they are the real deal. They lay blue eggs, have muffs and beard, slate colored legs, and come in a standard color not a mix of colors. I beleive their are only 8 colors that are approved in the standard. Although project colors are in the works with a few breeders.

Araucana's - If they are true Araucana's and not just a misspelled EE ....... They lay blue eggs, have tufts (no beard or muffs), and are rumpless. Very easy to tell apart from Ameraucanas or EE's but for some reason this misspelling thing has gone crazy especially with the hatcheries.

Olive Eggers - Are the result of crossing a blue or green egg layer on to a Marans. The resulting offspring will lay olive colored eggs that make a wonderful egg basket. In my opinion though, only a hen that lays olive eggs should be called an Olive Egger. Just because it has the genetics to be an olive egger doesn't always mean it will lay olive eggs.

Oh the wonderful world of Egg color.............

I gonna snap a pic of this egg once my batteries charge up. It's much smaller than yours Celtic. And I'll email him and ask what the mama is. But I know he said Ameracauna and then gave me a lesson on the rumpless and etc..

Maybe it's a Bantam Ameraucana.

 

[JulieNKC]

i have 2 internal pips. working on external. one almost internally pipped.

still have some that their air cells havent even dropped yet.. why?
i hope they will soon?

questionable eggs. no change.
cant hear no peeping yet. hope i do soon.
eggs are rocking either.
they are just working away at the shell..
hope they get external pipped soon.
im stating to get anxious already . this is the scary part for me.
working on gettin my humidity up.

I have one internal pip. I need to turn the other eggs in there sometime this afternoon so I'll check for more then.

oh and julie.
if its a woodcock egg i hope it hatches they are soo cool looking.
what a neat pet to have

They supposedly hatch and zip longways on the shell, which would be neat to see too.

I had a dream last night about Ameilia. It was something you posted. So there are 2 weirdnesses here.
#1. Keep an eye on Ameilia. And
#2. Why am I dreaming about BYC?

I woke up this morning and looked out and saw 2 little call ducks bobbing around in the pool. Ran outside, everyone else in the brooder where they should be. I let them out and they made a beeline for the mud puddle. Ducklings got out of the pool, came and got their sisters, and went back up to the pool. My little magpie jumped back in and quacked until they all got in with her. Bossy little thing, lol. Guess since they are off heat and old enough I would be putting them in with everyone else if they were bigger ducks I'll be building a pen inside the run for them today. No escapees anymore, and they can start getting aquainted with future room mates.

 

[country_girl011]

I have one internal pip. I need to turn the other eggs in there sometime this afternoon so I'll check for more then.


yay! we will have babies hatching the same time.
what kind of eggs?

They supposedly hatch and zip longways on the shell, which would be neat to see too.

hmm sound kool. be nice if you could find more where you found that 1.


I woke up this morning and looked out and saw 2 little call ducks bobbing around in the pool. Ran outside, everyone else in the brooder where they should be. I let them out and they made a beeline for the mud puddle. Ducklings got out of the pool, came and got their sisters, and went back up to the pool. My little magpie jumped back in and quacked until they all got in with her. Bossy little thing, lol. Guess since they are off heat and old enough I would be putting them in with everyone else if they were bigger ducks I'll be building a pen inside the run for them today. No escapees anymore, and they can start getting aquainted with future room mates.

and this sounds soo cute lol.
calls are bossy . they want it now. and thats how its gona be, or you will never hear the end of it.

 

[Adriennesmom]

Hello Everyone! I have been following this forum for a couple of days and have learned so much My mallard hen, Natasha, went broody shortly after our elderly drake passed away. It turned out that her eggs were not fertile but she was incredibly protective of her eggs and seemed to be a great mom. My husband and I decided to purchase some fertile eggs and put them under her so she would not be dissapointed when her eggs did not hatch. We bought a mallard, buff, crested, and Welsh Harlequin. Six days after we put them in her nest, she became bored with her nesting duties. She started to leave the next for longer periods of time and kicked out three of her eggs. They were ice cold but alive upon candling. My husband and I put together a makeshift incubator with a plastic container and brooding lamp. We have kept the tempetarue at around 99-100 degrees for 26 days. I started with a small bowl of water for humidy and added a small cup on day 26. I have candled the eggs and noted that three of them were alive and growing by the day. I stopped turning them between Thursday and Friday. I have not heard any peeping or movement. It is day 28. I am starting to get worried. What is the longest period of time that you have all waited for eggs to hatch? There were some evenings that the temperature dropped into the 80's. I am wondering if this slowed the developement. I would love any feedback from all of you experts Look forward to talking to you soon!

 

[country_girl011]

no update yet guys.
still trying to get the humidity up a lil more.
i have been listening with a steth to try and hear (to no luck)
i just put in a small bowl of steaming hot water to try to get it up above 60%

im a nervous wreck. i feel helpless lol.
i feel like i need to just pace outside the bator (like the nervous men do in old movies while their wife gives birth lol)
someone needs to make progress soon!

 

[JulieNKC]

Hello Everyone! I have been following this forum for a couple of days and have learned so much My mallard hen, Natasha, went broody shortly after our elderly drake passed away. It turned out that her eggs were not fettile but she was incredibly protective of her eggs and seemed to be a great mom. My husband and I decided to purchase some fertiel eggs and put them under her so she would not be dissapointed when her eggs did not hatch. We bought a mallard, buff, crested, and Welsh Harlequin. Six days after we put them in her nest, she became bored with her nesting duties. She started to leave the next for longer periods of time and kicked out three of her eggs. They were ice cold but alive upon candling. My husband and I put together a makeshift incubator with a plastic container and brooding lamp. We have kept the tempetarue at around 99-100 degrees for 26 days. I started with a small bowl of water for humidy and added a small cup on day 26. I have candled the eggs and noted that three of them were alive and growing by the day. I stopped turning them between Thursday and Friday. I have not heard any peeping or movement. I am starting to get worried. What is the longest period of time that you have all waited for eggs to hatch? There were some evenings that the temperature dropped into the 80's. I am wondering if this slowed the developement. I would love any feedback from all of you experts Look forward to talking to you soon!

Do you have a flashlight? Take them in a dark room and shine it in the big end and see if you can see any movement. And put the egg to your ear to see if you can hear anything. If the temperature was low they can take a few extra days to hatch.

no update yet guys.
still trying to get the humidity up a lil more.
i have been listening with a steth to try and hear (to no luck)
i just put in a small bowl of steaming hot water to try to get it up above 60%

im a nervous wreck. i feel helpless lol.
i feel like i need to just pace outside the bator (like the nervous men do in old movies while their wife gives birth lol)
someone needs to make progress soon!

 

[Adriennesmom]

Thank you Julie I will try that. Will it disturb the babies to handle them on day 28? I would love to take a peak!

 

[country_girl011]

still cant get my humidity above 601%

 

[JulieNKC]

Thank you Julie I will try that. Will it disturb the babies to handle them on day 28? I would love to take a peak!

Not if you do it quickly.
The first time I hatched anything I didn't have an incubator. I had a broody hatch her chicks and leave 2 eggs behind. I used a styrofoam minnow bucket, thermometer/hydrometer, and a heat lamp and made a quick hatcher. I dropped/smashed one of the eggs carrying it in (oops! felt so awful, I had to help it, but the chick ended up making it) but the other hatched fine. I used plastic wrap over part of the top to hold in some humidity and had a fan going near it, but not directly pointed at it.

 

[JulieNKC]

still cant get my humidity above 601%

Don't worry. That's what mine was at for the last ducklings hatching. I didn't want to raise it too much because of the other eggs. Once they started hatching it raised to 78%.