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In theory it should be possible. But it would take some serious record keeping.

I hatched these babies out late last month.. All that made it out of the egg are doing great. My big question is are they TOO fat? Like seriously these lil guys are hefty chonky lil ugly birds and I LOVE them. Way friendlier than my chickens but they waddle they are so round. Is this normal?

But the broody hens never lose power. :)

Color question.. I hatched shipped eggs and got these two chicks from different sellers. They both hatched grey but are feathering in with white wings so far. What color are they?

it happens. :) it just means they have a DQ for showing said bird. I would avoid setting eggs from that bird unless it turns out positively amazing in all other aspects but if it's a hen you have a great incubator. I just found one of my favorite of my 23 chicks has one extra toe also.

I think my roo may be too smart for my good. Today while putting everyone up he would not enter the coop. Now I had already noticed his back missing a few feathers but had no extra heat lamp to separate him into his own place with. So while attempting to chase him into the coop he finally got...

Curious about opinions on this chick,, it hatched on the third and is about twice as fluffy as any of the twenty other silkie chicks that hatched with it. And yes it does have five toes on each foot though they are very hidden by it's fluff

Go see a movie, have dinner, do something to get away from the incubator and you'll return and have a ton of fluffy butts in there upon your return. :)

I set 9 buff, most of which the post office scrambled and two of them hatched. I set twenty from shipped paint silkie eggs, Of which ten have hatched and 6 never made to lockdown. and I believe 14 Mixed silkies of which four have hatched and are currently in lockdown with a recent count of at...

Ok, most recent picture, I'm up to three paint, three white, three partridge, one blue, two buff, and five black silkies. A total of seventeen and counting, I have two maybe three pipped in the incubator still.

So far I've been using the drawer liners for the first few days then switching to shavings. It's working great, it gives them a good footing early on then the moisture absorbing of the shavings once worry about footing is not so critical.

:D totally agree with you there, only thing I can figure is that maybe it's my humidity. So far they are all very lively :) and one new picture coming up as soon as I get some more battery life on my phone.

Update! I now have eight silkies from my feb2 hatch and 2 more pipped in that hatch. I was just sitting down to relax and heard chirping from my second incubator and two of my feb4 eggs in lockdown are pipped two days early!!!

I'll count when I get home, before I left for work this morning there were at least three pips. Might have been more that I couldn't see.

Eggs went into lockdown two days ago, not supposed to hatch until tomorrow and what do I hear from the incubator today? Chirping. Looks like I get my babies a day early!