Sept Silkie hatches (Great Hatches)

day 9- lots of kicking chicks....one blood ring in a very porous egg thats hard to see into, but the chick is moving, bit small but still fighting. Anyone had a blood ring go on to hatch?

silkienrescues said:

day 9- lots of kicking chicks....one blood ring in a very porous egg thats hard to see into, but the chick is moving, bit small but still fighting. Anyone had a blood ring go on to hatch?

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Good luck with your eggs! I have had embryos in early development that had a sort of ring around them but at day 9, I don't know, it may be quitting, but I hope not.

I don't know yet if I will be hatching more eggs, but I am here for moral support ; ) I hatched 20 Silkie chicks this Summer that I will be growing out, more seems excessive. But then you figure half of them will be roosters, so we'll see if I get inspired. I amazingly got all the colors I wanted... several black, lavender, paint, porcelain and some showgirls. I only wish I had hatched some loud paints. I was just dreaming about breeding for some paint and lavender show girls... the Spring is going to be so fun!!

I've seen blood rings start but the chicks was still alive. I can't remember if that egg hatched. It was with my peafowl batch. I've noticed that sometimes the umbilical cord can look like a blood ring because it's much thicker. And if it happens to be in a circular position, even more so. If you start seeing veins recede then I'd say it will eventually quit.

I hatched out 9 silkies this spring. Hopefully I will get more from the current batch. I do not have any paints and I'm really dying for some of them!! I do have a white cockerel and a black pullet, so maybe next spring I will get some naturally. But I'll probably just buy some paint eggs from that breeder I posted on the other thread.

My shipped eggs left Florida at 4:45pm yesterday. And landed in NY this morning. I'll be picking them up later this morning. First I have a sick baby that needs to go to the Drs. I'm thinking ear infection. So I'll update this afternoon!

I got my eggs. I'm just disappointed. I don't know if it's the way the breeder packs the eggs but the air cells are detached again! I've done quite a few batches of shipped eggs and I've never had completely detached air cells before. It's almost more disappointing to try to hatch something that's very close to near impossible to hatch! I don't even know what else to say at this point. Two are cracked. I just feel

Oh no I'm sorry to hear that, Ruby, I can relate almost all of my Buttercup eggs arrived detached. I would suggest keeping them right end up for a week or so barely tilting them. And then turn them q bit more for the next few days and recheck to see if their air cells have reattached. But I'm by no means an expert on detached air cells.

My silkie mix eggs are in lock-down right now. I'm so excited!

chickendreams24 said:

Oh no I'm sorry to hear that, Ruby, I can relate almost all of my Buttercup eggs arrived detached. I would suggest keeping them right end up for a week or so barely tilting them. And then turn them q bit more for the next few days and recheck to see if their air cells have reattached. But I'm by no means an expert on detached air cells.

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Thank you. I'm letting them rest for at least 24 hrs and then I will assess how bad the damage is. I'm going to be very hands off. That means I have to handcuff my hands because I have a candling addiction!

GitaBooks said:

My silkie mix eggs are in lock-down right now. I'm so excited!

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good luck!

Lol I can relate. This hatch has been rough for me so I know what you mean. Good luck Ruby. Lockdown for a couple of my eggs is tomorrow or the next day and then more in 4 more days but I know I'll be lucky to get 8 chicks out of the two dozen eggs the breeder sent me and three were broken on arrival.

chickendreams24 said:

Lol I can relate. This hatch has been rough for me so I know what you mean. Good luck Ruby. Lockdown for a couple of my eggs is tomorrow or the next day and then more in 4 more days but I know I'll be lucky to get 8 chicks out of the two dozen eggs the breeder sent me and three were broken on arrival.

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How far did the eggs travel from? I'm going to try to buy eggs just one state over from me next time and see how those do. Good luck on lockdown!! for at least 8 (hopefully more) chicks!!

RubyNala97 said:

I got my eggs. I'm just disappointed. I don't know if it's the way the breeder packs the eggs but the air cells are detached again! I've done quite a few batches of shipped eggs and I've never had completely detached air cells before. It's almost more disappointing to try to hatch something that's very close to near impossible to hatch! I don't even know what else to say at this point. Two are cracked. I just feel

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That sucks.... that is my usual experience of shipped eggs : ( and I have a hard time hatching the ones that do develop. Were the ones you had success with shipped from close by? I guess they don't have paint or you would order from them again. Hopefully these eggs will do better than the last batch!