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    Silver Deathlayer Chick - Odd markings

    I've eventually found the answer. It appears that this chick has the markings of a Silver Campine. I had a hunch that the breeder may have introduced a Silver Campine bloodline into the Silver Westfälischer Totleger stock, as both breeds, are almost identical in appearance. So I asked Grok...
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    Silver Deathlayer Chick - Odd markings

    I've just managed to get a couple of better photos showing it's head. Again the markings on the head look different to the others.
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    Silver Deathlayer Chick - Odd markings

    All the eggs came from the same source, a breeder here in Bulgaria. As far as I'm aware, he keeps his breeds separated, though I may be wrong. All the others appear true to breed, it's just this one stands out as being different from the other silver deathlayers. I think I read somewhere that...
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    Silver Deathlayer Chick - Odd markings

    Yes, will do. I'm pleased you appreciate it too. I literally spent hours over the past few days browsing photos of deathlayer chicks on the Web but couldn't find anything that matched. Fingers crossed someone will know 🤞🙏😁
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    Silver Deathlayer Chick - Odd markings

    I have six Silver Deathlayer chicks, which I hatched on Saturday. One of them looks very different, is slightly larger than the others, with a 'blotched' pattern. I'm wondering if there's any significance in this? 18 hatched out of 21 eggs, including Blue Copper Marans, Isbar Silverrudd Blues...
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    Help. Day 23. Are the chicks shrink wrapped? No hatches in 16, but 2 external pips, with no progress?

    I've just checked a third egg. That too has the same problem as one of the others, where it's at the top of the egg and hasn't moved towards the air sack. There's also no movement in all the three I've candled which again makes me think they were stuck. I won't take the chance in candling the...
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    Help. Day 23. Are the chicks shrink wrapped? No hatches in 16, but 2 external pips, with no progress?

    Thanks. I will have a look 👍
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    Help. Day 23. Are the chicks shrink wrapped? No hatches in 16, but 2 external pips, with no progress?

    The incubator temperature fluctuatad a bit before lockdown on day 18but I'm guessing the average was around 37C, which I'm thinking wouldn't be enough to delay hatching by 2 days? I upped humidity to 60% on day 18, as there are also Maran eggs in. First thing in the morning of the 19th about...
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    Help. Day 23. Are the chicks shrink wrapped? No hatches in 16, but 2 external pips, with no progress?

    I'm a newby. I have 16 mixed chicken eggs in the incubator. There's been no progress till this morning, when one externally pipped, though outside the air sack. I read it needs 48 hours to digest the yolk before zipping. Is that's right? Then a second pipped 5 hours ago, though I couldn't see...
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    Complete Newby, just received my eggs.

    Thank you! 😊
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    Have I accidentally killed my eggs?

    Thanks everyone 👏👏👏 Panic over 🙄 I noticed there was a problem, as I'd bought two thermometer /hydrometer probes, so I could confirm the one I added to the incubator was accurate. It was only when I saw, that the spare one, lying on my coffee table was reading 2°C higher than the Air...
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    Have I accidentally killed my eggs?

    Thank you 🙏
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    Have I accidentally killed my eggs?

    Hi, Thanks for responding. I'd left them to settle for 24 hours in a cool room and put them in the incubator around noon. They were in at the lower temperature for about 5 hours before I discovered the problem.
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    Have I accidentally killed my eggs?

    Can anyone please advise? I had to adjust my incubator when the temperature rose dramatically after adding my new eggs. I've now found the problem was my calibration thermometer/hydrometer sensor, which had fallen over in the egg turner and was giving false readings. Bottom line is, the...
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    Complete Newby, just received my eggs.

    You're right that the coop looks a little delapidated but Bulgaria is like stepping back 30 years, which I love. Most chicken owners keep their birds in 50yr old brick built outbuildings, which were originally made for livestock and built in Socialist times, alongside their village house...
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    Complete Newby, just received my eggs.

    I bought the incubator used. It's a Chinese HHD 32S. It's a very bad design and not easy to clean (it took me 2 hours), as you have to disassemble the internal parts as they're all attached below the egg turner's. I have calibrated it correctly using a separate thermometer /hydro meter. The...
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    Complete Newby, just received my eggs.

    Sorry, here's the photo of my eggs, also a photo of the breeders deathlayers
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    Complete Newby, just received my eggs.

    I'm an English expat living in Bulgaria for the past 6 years. I've been interested in keeping chickens for a few years but have just decided to take the step. Today, I received 30 eggs to hatch from a Bulgarian breeder in the Free Ads here, 10 each of Blue Copper Marans, Swedish Isbar...
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