This chick is still happy and healthy and doing great! It does not appear to be growing much but it eats and drinks and is super fast. It has a vaulted skull that is bald.
The freaky thing is it appears that she hatched one pure lav orp, one pure silkie and pure polish!!! The rest look like they are mutts but apparently my roosters prefer their own hens!!
I had a broody silkie sit on a bunch of mixed eggs and this one appears to have 2 copies of the fizzle gene. Love the bump on its bald head. It is a week old in this pic. All my chickens are stuck in one big pen while we are still working on the chicken barn...
I do know how to do the salt water method. I need to do it but with this hatch I incubated in my Brinker Economy and wanted to hatch in my Farm Innovator forced air since I have super expensive polish eggs arriving any day. I will wait and calibrate after this hatch. Thanks for the welcome...
Hi! I am Sue. Haven't been on much in a while but I am back:). Just put 8 show shipped silkie eggs from show quality birds in lockdown. So excited! My humidity is my only iffy thing. I have 3 digital hygrometer in there. One reads 72 one reads 65 and one reads 59. I figure if I average all I am...