Well, it looks like I'm getting 4\8. My last chick just hatched, it still looks like it needs to finish absorbing a little yolk, but it looks healthy enough. When it came out, I decided to candle the remaining 4 eggs for any signs of life. They all had very irregular shaped air cells and were gone. They'd been rocking strong along with the other eggs that hatched, so I don't know what happened to them. They had absorbed their yolks and were ready to go..hmm. I did struggle with humidity though, so maybe they just weren't strong enough to break out?
I'm super happy with my 4 little blue Silkies though! I plan on moving them to their brooder tomorrow. I'll take pics then and share.
Soooo, now I've got 20 eggs left in the incubator and 6 under a broody due to hatch around the 27th. I'll candle my bator eggs tomorrow when the chicks get moved out and see how they're doing. And, I'm thinking about sticking some more in there. I gave 9 more to another broody today and I still have another 25 I need to do something with
Oh little silkies... can't wait to see them! Sounds like you have a lot more chicks on the way too... makes me feel better about the 28 I set today
