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    What colour is this Silkie chick?

    I'm in the UK if that makes a difference? These are backyard breeder chicks she had a gold roo and a black roo carrying paint and 2 paint hens and 2 partridge hens I was told I'd get eggs at random whichever hens laid on the day/days I got 6 eggs and 4 hatched 1 was a paint, 1 was Partridge with...
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    What colour is this Silkie chick?

    Can anybody tell me what colour this Silkie chick is? It's parents were a gold roo and a Partridge hen... I don't think it's a standard Silkie colour although it's very pretty... I have another baby identical to this one... They looked blue ish at hatch now they're black with gold streaks and...
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    September 2015 Hatch-A-long!!

    I don't hold out much hope but I've patched 3 of the least cracked ones up with candle wax.. There's another badly cracked but it's leaking so I won't waste my time with that one... the other 2 are on the floor well beyond saving :|
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    September 2015 Hatch-A-long!!

    6 very expensive omelettes anyone? tripped over every single Tricolor Paint silkie egg smashed :( Oh well just aswell I'm getting more next week still I kicking myself :-/
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    September 2015 Hatch-A-long!!

    Lots of missing info lol August 21st... 24 mixed bantams set (Lavender cuckoo Pekins/lemon Millefleur Sablepoot/blue/buff laced Wynadottes/Polish) due to hatch September 11th. Setting August 27th 12 Silkies (Tricolor Paint and Chocolate/Partridge) due to hatch September 17th. Setting August...
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    September 2015 Hatch-A-long!!

    Oops just bought a new 48 egg incubator this could be dangerous lol will be adding gold laced orpingtons to my hatch and more paint silkies both tricolor and normal :D
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    September 2015 Hatch-A-long!!

    Oh I won't be giving up on any yet but I'm 95% sure most of my eggs are duds... The Polands and most of the Wynadottes don't even look fertile :( I candled the eggs before I set them and one looked like it had a 4 day embryo floating around inside it... Only 1 of the Lavender cuckoo Pekins has a...
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    UK Member Please Say HI

    Hi to all the other UKers didn't think there was so many active :) I joined a couple of months ago but this is my first post on this thread! I'm from Suffolk if @Yorkshire coop you remember I was the nutjob that wanted to raise chickens on her rather large balcony? Well I took the plunge and...
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    September 2015 Hatch-A-long!!

    Day 4 hands on candling addict here at this point it's not looking great for my eBay eggs.... 6/24 are definitely developing with clear embryos.... another 4-6/24 are maybes since I can't see to well in those eggs nearly all of the Polish bantams look clear to me except the one I cracked which...
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    September 2015 Hatch-A-long!!

    Oops looks like I'm setting more eggs on Wednesday 6 tricolor Paint bantam silkies, 4 Miniature chocolate silkies... maybe some Miniature citron/buff silkies and some other silkies to fill up incubator :D
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    September 2015 Hatch-A-long!!

    Buff laced Wynadottes are just ebay eggs all of my eggs are ebay eggs very cheap eggs compared to "August hatch" eggs :)
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    2015 August hatch-a-long!!

    My little Silkies all dry and fluffed up and moved to the brooder :D
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    September 2015 Hatch-A-long!!

    24 September eggs set :D Egg in bottom right corner fixed up with candle wax cuz some dufus.... oh that would be me dropped an egg on it and cracked it :-/ Gonna see if I can improve my hatch rate since these are shipped eggs I will be incubating them upright for the first 3 days and seeing if...
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    2015 August hatch-a-long!!

    For those not on the August Silkie hatch a long these are my guys.... I'll post better pics when they're dry and fluffy and in their brooder :-)
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    ~ Silkie Hatch-a-Long August 2015 (SHIPPED EGGS GONE WRONG!!) ~

    Those aircells while not great are not so terrible either last Month I had aircells far worse and my hatch rate was poor but my babies that did hatch came out of the eggs with the worst aircells some covering over half their eggs.... Those babies are just over 4 weeks old and thriving now...
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