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Thank you so much!!! I have my raising chicken book, and along with all your help here I am *getting* it. So 4 of the 12 eggs were most defintely fertile, which means...I don't have to worry about my rooster LOL I am going to let her collect another set of eggs...and just let nature take it's...

Quote: She laid the first egg 11 days ago, and has been sitting on them for only 4 days. She put her nest near the water and when I went to change her water she snapped at me... I am so new to all of this..., so the incubation period of an egg does not start the day it's laid, but the days...

I guess I will just let her try again... I am going to mark each egg with the date they were laid and just wait out the 21 days... I read that Silkies will lay around 8 eggs and then sit, but she was sitting and still popping them out...she was up to 12...*shrug* My daughters are upset I...

Because my hens and roo was bought in an auction by my neighbour...and so I know nothing about them...other than they are silkies...I guess it is safe to say that my rooster is doing his job? I cracked the eggs because during candling (oldest egg 11 days) I saw nothing...but when I cracked them...

Thank you so much....so I cracked the eggs...all of them and 4 of them were definitly fertile... I will let her keep the next group of eggs and see what happens. The probably is...she doesn't sit on them all the time.

Quote: So the funny little spot on this yolk is nothing?

I cracked 4 open...and 2 yokes were perfect...nothing on them. I cracked another 2 and this is what I saw...????

And the bullseye means????

So do I take these eggs away? The oldest being 11 days (are they still good for eating???) or do I throw them out...seeing I don't know which was was just laid...

I have 2 silkie hens laying, and a Rooster crowing his head off...I am letting them collect and the two hens are taking turns sitting... They were off of them this afternoon and I tried candling them (homemade gadget) and all the eggs (the oldest one is 11 days old) Look exactly the same... I...