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So I have eggs in the incubator and wasn’t sure when they were due to hatch. I thought surely they were at least a week away from hatching so I kept the automatic turner on. I went to inspect about an hour and a half ago and saw one had pipped! I quickly removed the turner and have been watching...

So today I checked under my broody (she’s been sitting on eggs) and one had hatched but unfortunately didn’t make it :( the chick had pretty much no shell around it other than at the bottom where it looked to have some blood too. I don’t know what happened or what went wrong because it otherwise...

Hi all! So we have 3 hens and a rooster (2 silkie hens, a silkie rooster and an ISA brown hen). The silkie hens began laying a clutch of eggs at the same time in the same nest box over the period of about 2 weeks and then both sat on them side by side. We decided to let nature take its course...