Our one egg that our broody silkie is sitting on is due to hatch (hopefully) on the 10th. I have a question though..... First time hatching and have her in large dog cage in basement. We just have a bowl in there for water for her. I read that the baby chick likes to throw themselves into the water, will the momma keep the chick from doing this, I work a 12 hour shift on Tuesday so will be gone from 0630 to around 2030 that night. I just would hate to see a little chick that has drowned when I get home. Should I get a small waterer to put in there instead of a bowl?
Thanks,
I candled today and am seeing an airsac, but no spots. One was clear but I'm going to leave it till I candle again. these brown eggs are hard to see through.
Went into lockdown this morning with 12. Number 13's veining was gone and there was a black cloud with tentacles growing inside. It looked like one of my polish has already internally pipped. This is the hard part for me.
I guess I'm out on the MID-January part but I set my first eggs on thurs evening so I'm trying to learn from you hatchers that are a bit ahead of me! So if I set at 7pm on the 5th, then my hatch date is the 27th? I was thinking 21 days would be the evening of the 26th :-/ gosh this is gonna be a long 3 weeks, I've barely made it the 3 days! I sit and watch and nothing happens
I mean they could at least roll around for me or something!
Ok patience... But it's 330 am and I can't sleep for thinking about little fuzzy chickie butts
We candled our eggs last night (day 7) and were tickled to find dancing babies swimming around in several of them! We made a short video of a particularly active one & noted all of our current findings. If anyone wants to see it, its on our website this morning (www.wantless.net)