Thank you so much! Your silkie is so pretty! This is the first time I have had and hatched my own birds. I just love silkies I'm definitely hooked for life! Lol
I just got in to silkies this spring I have had laying hens but never silkies. Today when I went out to feed,all my chicks ran up to me like a bunch of puppies. It's so nice how friendly they are becoming! Way different then my other chickens. I'm curious do silkies ever like being held. And do...
I keep trying to load more pictures but it just won't even tho they were taken just like the other picture.I hatched a bunch of eggs from Mongolia silkies she has really pretty show birds this one is supposed to be splash. She seems light colored for that though.
Awe that's so cute! My chicks are doing great! I ended up with 32 I kept 19 and gave the rest to my mom, she lives on the same property just a different house. I will run out and get some pictures. There is suppose to be a bunch of splash but they look grey right now.
Ya there isn't much you can do if they don't Even internally pip. I don't plan on buying anymore eggs either I got a nice flock to breed and have my own babies if I want to at least and I'm going to let the chicken do the work lol all the chicks are doing great one thing I was wandering tho...
On day 22 if they hadn't externally pipped yet I candled and looked for the beak in the air cell you can see it move around then I would get a small knife and about where the beak is in the air cell I would use the point and start scraping until you can chip it not very much to start with and...
I checked by candling and making sure they at least internally pipped if they did hopefully they haven't run out of air yet I was to late on a few of mine but the ones that I did do in time did well
Aww oh no that's horrible! Out of my batch I had some on day 21 and 22 but I had to hatch like 6 myself I don't know what caused so many to need help but after they internally pipped I had to externally pip so they wouldn't run out of air and then I slowly over the next day zipped the shell...