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Here's several of my first batch

Well, as of today, we're at 6 hatched out of 11 eggs. The remaining 5 have no pips, and no rocking. On the day 18 candling, all 11 eggs had the same level of development. Today is day 21, so we're going to give the remaining eggs a few days to try and hatch. I'm happy with 6 if that's all we get...

Woke up to a third silkie, buff. With another obvious pip and two very big zips!

Number two!

First one hatched, second on the way!

First pip and first peeps from one of my silkie eggs just now. I'm a little worried though,it's 39 hours early.

Just went into lockdown!

Final candle, 3 more stopped developing. Still we're at 11 of 16 shipped silkie eggs that are developing well. Lockdown starts tomorrow at 7pm!

Candled this morning (day 9). Out of 8 buff silkie eggs, 7 had visible veins and dark masses, some you could even see the embryo moving! 1 was clear, so its getting tossed. All 4 black/blue/splash eggs are developing, and 3 out of 4 white eggs are as well. So 2 clear out of 16 eggs, which were...

Cold weather lowered my house temp significantly, and the eggs got down to 97 degrees for several hours. I'm really hoping that they still hatch, but being small silkie eggs, and my first hatch, I'm a bit concerned. Stupid polar vortex.

Come out of the egg they said, it'll be fun they said...

I blame myself, the only access to the coop is in the run, but instead of making a proper roof for the run, I just put chicken wire over it, looks like a critter got in through a gap. Spent the morning making a proper roof for the run and double checking every inch of the coop and run. I live in...

Lost a bird this morning, pretty sure it was a raccoon. The ONE time I forget to close the coop at night. Lucky we only lost one I suppose.

Eggs are getting up to room temp, marked and ready to go in the bator at 7 tonight! 8 buff, 4 black, and 4 white, all silkie!

I'm putting some in the bator and some under a broody silkie on Thursday night or Friday morning. Bator is warmed up and stable, can't wait for the eggs!

Broody hen is now in the little broody coop I made sitting on a clutch of duds. Good eggs should be here tomorrow or Thursday!

Hah! If you were local I'd be happy to help, buuuut, it's a bit of a trek from Georgia.

The coop is 4 months old now, and you are absolutely right, a removable floor is part of the spring update plan!

Back in September a friend of mine was surprised with two Roos, a RIR and a Barred Rock. Myself, the wife, and kids went to go see his gift chickens, and while we were there, discussed getting birds for ourselves. By the time we got home that afternoon, it was decided that she NEEDED chickens...

Well, I've got a broody Silkie (I'm sure you're all shocked to hear that), so now we've got fertilized silkie eggs on the way from the Garry Farm, and I built a broody coop to keep inside for hatching and initial raising. Wish us luck with a winter hatch!