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Only time will tell (: I'm excited to see how he looks when fuly feathered out!

LOL I just have to convince my husband. The butthead has been gettign better but I wold not trust him near children, and I have to take a broom out with me when i go outside! I'm sure people driving by think i'm crazy carying a broom in the field LOL We are replacing him in the spring, going to...

I agree with you about beiing a rooster. So he will either become dinner, replace our current rooster (current rooster is a butthead) or go with our silkie flock if we odnt have nay silkie roosters. He is a speckled sussex/ Redsex link mix so not sure what laced is or if he would be laced. I kow...

Lucky is 4 weeks now, thinking she may be a he. only time will tell. 5 of the chicks that hatched out are leaving today. the leghorn.sussex are staying. think i might trade for one of the leghorn silkie mixes. I hatched them out for a neighbor. But that still leavesme with 5...

they came from a standard egg so I am thinking standard? they have characteristics of silkies. 5 toes, beard, crest, feathered feet. one of the redsex link/silkie crosses has 4 toes on one foot and 5 on the other. the have splotches of black on their skin, their beaks are dark, but not as dark...

well the babies hatched! I got 2 silkies. 3 leghorn/speckled sussex crosses. andthen hatched our 3 red sexlink/silie crosses, 2 leghorn/silkie crosses fro a neighbor. we are going to exchange on of our leghorns and shes going to give me a sex link cross. here they are: Our silkies: thinking...

Yeah mine doesn't get into the actual incubation much either. I was surprised he even checked on them haha! My hatch rate for my last batch of shipped silkie eggs wasn't too great. got 8, 3 blood lines, 3 clears, 2 made it into lockdown. one internally piped through a vein in the membrane and...

He turned the heat on and wanted to make sure he didn't bake the eggs. So at least he pays attention! LOL He doesn't do any of the incubation, But he loves when we have babies. Who doesn't?! He was upset when Faith died too, But it's nature. I always put more in then I need. Did I mention I have...

I have 3 batches all due to hatch next week LOL husband says after this no more until spring. He thought I only had 6 eggs...he checked on eggs and said why are there 15 eggs in there?!" LOL I have 4 silkies that go into lock own Monday, due to hatch thursday. 6 of my flocks eggs go into...

the thing that gets me is I had her out a few hours before she passed, like I do all chicks when they turn 1 week. She was out with me and my husband exploring the kitchen floor for about 5 minutes, since it wasn't cold in the house. She had a deep dish for food that she liked sleeping on, I was...

She turned 1 week yesterday and she passed away in my arms around 1 am this morning. Not sure what happened. I went to check on everyone's temps since I raised the lights as it was the 1 week mark so was reducing by 5* and she was laying one her belly but her head and feet were all weird and she...

Thank you (: He has something on his other eye now...Only time will tell though, If he makes it through this first week then he should be fine. I keep showing him the water and food every few hours has to be gettign n his nerves! But My next batch of Silkies go into lockdown in 10 days so...

He hasn't ate or drank on his own yet I am still showing him where everything is. Think it may be harder with only one eye. But he is active walking around. Yesterday was spent mostly sleeping. Plus he still has the yolk in him so he may not feel the need to eat and drink yet. I was told that he...

I think the first one will make it. S/he is being very active. I am going to introduce Him/her to Lucky later on today. s/he is walking on its own and more active now that it slept. I have more Silkies coming in about 2 weeks. They are from a different person from E-bay so I am hoping no genetic...

Other chick did not make it. I piped it myself, just a small hole to see i it was alive. It was not. So opened it up to see if it had the same effects as the one who hatched this morning. It also has a cross over beak, couldn't see the eyes though. So my guess is the cross over beak is a genetic...

Well the baby detached on itself. Poor thing has so many problems dont know if it is genetics. E-bay eggs so I can't say. His right eye never fully formed and has a cross beak. S/he will not be used for breeding. s/he is the only one that hatched. only 2 made it to lockdown. I still have 1 more...

Well he hatched!! will he be okay? I don't remember Lucky having the cord so red when she hatched.

Managed to get some photos of him (: Thinking he may be a white silkie now. I can't wait until he hatches, and dries out. His beak looks real messed up now that his head is visable on both sides. Poor baby.

So glad I put front and top windows in...prevents me fromwanting to oen the incubator. I can see whats going on just fine...my face is glued to the incubator!! LOL