Any hope for these poor eggs?

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coolchik

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My broody silkie has stopped sitting with 3 days to go. She was outside her run this morning happily pecking at the griund and her eggs are all cold. I put her back in with hem and blocked her doorway but she will not go back to sit in them. Is there any hope that they will hatch or is there anything I can do to intervene? I do not have an incubator... Only a heat lamp. Can I shine a heat lamp on them? I'm so sad as the eggs are polish crested I got off the neighbor. Was really looking forward to some cute polish babies. Any suggestions?
 
Get them under the heat lamp. Get the temp up to 99. You can put a fee wet sponges close by to provide some humidity. You've go nothing to lose trying. Call the neighbor you got the eggs from. They might have an extra broody or incubator. You should be able to coax a few to hatch. They're little fighters.
 
x 2. You will need to keep the temp around 100 at the eggs, and as much humidity as you can get without getting the eggs wet. If you can keep them in a bathroom in a tote with towels underneath the tote to keep the floor from pulling the heat from the bottom, and with the light shining down from a couple feet up, and run the shower once in a while to keep the room humidity up as well as sponges or warm damp towels rolled around the edges, and a dry rag on the floor, you should be okay.

Don't try to seal them up in a box for added humidity, at this stage keeping the temp and ventilation is key.

A substitute broody or incubator would be great, of course, but work with what you have if you have to.
 
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x 2.  You will need to keep the temp around 100 at the eggs, and as much humidity as you can get without getting the eggs wet.  If you can keep them in a bathroom in a tote with towels underneath the tote to keep the floor from pulling the heat from the bottom, and with the light shining down from a couple feet up, and run the shower once in a while to keep the room humidity up as well as sponges or warm damp towels rolled around the edges, and a dry rag on the floor, you should be okay.

Don't try to seal them up in a box for added humidity, at this stage keeping the temp and ventilation is key.

A substitute broody or incubator would be great, of course, but work with what you have if you have to.
 
Okay... I went to my neighbors and they did set me up with an extra incubator
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. I'm waiting on it to heat up, they did give me instructions on how to maintain the humidity and temp....... Fingers crossed!!
 
I've finished off eggs in a cardboard box lined with aluminum foil with a heat lamp for warmth (under nearly the same circumstances, the hen got up when the first egg pipped). I placed a small bowl of water in each corner and went outside to do yard work for the day. When I came back in several hours later, there were fluffies in the box looking back at me.

Where there's a will, there's a way. Good luck :)
 
I candles the eggs and I can see veins but not much else. They are very black with a large air pocket. I don't see any movement at all but I don't know if j should be able to see anything at this stage. Still waiting on the incubator to get the right humidity balance. Right now they are in a box with a heat lamp on them with a wet sponge for humidity.
 

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