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I live in Arkansas and was wondering if you are close to me. I just hatched out 4 silver and 3 gold Frisian Gulls yesterday.

Not all turn out so good.

I do also because I try to save the rare breeds from extinction. Just purchased frisian gull eggs and results were 7 of 12 hatched from greenfire farms. So even though they were expensive is also no guarantee. You just never know what you will get but when you find a great seller add them to...

Yes you are correct. Sorry for not adding that. They do not look like Muscovy to me.

Chicks can be sexed on day one once they are dry. Look at the wing, if the wing feathers are all the same length than it will be a rooster and if the wing feathers are staggered- large and smaller etc,etc, than it will be a hen. This can not be done with silkies. You must wait until they get...

Chicken eggs can hatch early with no harm done. The full 21 days is preferable but I have had eggs hatch early that were fine and others just not strong enough to survive. Hopefully everything will be fine. Usually if they are able to hatch on their own they should survive. Good luck!

I found that my cell phones light is by far the best to candle eggs.

Sounds like everything is going great so far. You can candle the eggs at 7 days to see if they are real fertile. You will see movement and veins in them if fertile. If clear this is the time to remove them from the incubator as they will not hatch. Also any that have a blood ring should be...

Takes 21 days for chickens to hatch and 28 days for ducks.

I have purchased many eggs from different Ebay sellers and have sold some myself so I have had great hatches and some very expensive deathlayer eggs with only 1 out of 24 to hatch. This is the chance and risk that we take. It really isn't fair sometimes but I know when I send my eggs that you...

The males (cockerel or rooster) will be the ones with the spikey looking hairdo and the hen or pullet have the smooth looking hairdo. With that said it looks like top two are going to be roosters and the bottom a hen.

Feather color on silkies does not tell you what sex they are. I always have to wait until they grow up a little more to tell.

This one with the raised tail feathers is a cockerel and the rest pullets from what I can see in the pictures. If you still have any that you don't want let me know and I would be glad to have them. Just let me know if I can be of more help.

No do not cool them. Last 3 days do not turn them.

Pullet