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Oh they would definitely have a wayyyy better chance at hatching if from your own chickens. Most of the issues with the eggs I’ve had came from being handled roughly in the mail. Many of the eggs had completely detached and watery looking air sacs (almost every single lavender silkie egg, in...

They really are having a rough time this year!!! I candled tonight and to me it looks like the lav silkie egg is quitting (I figured it would) but the veins were pulsing still so I haven’t completely given up on it. The bantam ameraucanas look good - well as good as they can lol they are kind of...

Thanks for asking! Unfortunately I lost one of the chicks - the white silkied EE. It was such a sweetie, I was so sad. However I talked to the breeder and she is sending more eggs! And I made one last order of silkie eggs to go into the incubator with them… THEN I will be done hatching for the...

I’ve never seen it before and after searching this site, seems like no one has 😂 I have been giving them extra B complex. I am kind of wondering if their bums are itching or bothering them? They have had very small amounts of poop stuck near the vent, and I noticed a tiny bit of runny stools...

Thank you! And now the chicks have been acting a little weird so I’m not sure if they are going to be normal or not! A couple have weird leg spasms. They otherwise seem fine but I feel like it could go either way for them!

No, those eggs are still in my incubator! They were from Akers Farm - they were just kind of a for-fun purchase. They are blue egg silkies/satins. They came from Florida too though! There must be a direct flight from Jacksonville to SLC. Bobbi’s were slower, I think they were shipped on Monday...

IndigoEgg is Bobbi Porto - she is one that I am still considering buying another batch of eggs from. Bobbi’s eggs went through a lot in shipping but I at least ended up with 5 of her eggs in lockdown (but sadly only 2 hatched due to my humidity issues - the 3 that did not hatch were all...

Well…. I’m just having a horrible time this year trying to get chicks. The only good hatch that I had was from Brenda Smith (she packs her eggs better than anyone I’ve ever seen - would recommend her all day every day!) Every other batch has been in abysmal shape after the usps finished with...

The poor chick was so mad with the tape on, it basically refused to walk 🤦‍♀️ So I took it off after about 18 hours and I didn’t notice much change. So I think it is going to be stuck with a slightly curved toe, sadly. The yellow one wore leg braces for 24 hours and I think it’s going to be...

The 3 precious chicks that came out of my hatch. The black I believe is split to blue cream (I will probably start a post asking what that means exactly haha), the yellow came out of a lemon cuckoo pen and is the fluffiest silkie I’ve seen as a baby, and the white is a silkie EE! It has dark...

Thank you! I really hope they make it too. So far so good! I’ll take pictures tomorrow after they have had sufficient time to rest. Ah! So exciting you have a pip!! I’ll have to hop onto your thread and see how things are going with your hatch!! 🥰

A sad update! My humidity wasn’t high enough. I have a really hard time keeping it high in this incubator and I thought it was going to be good enough around 55% (then planned to increase it when they pipped). Well today (day 21) rolled around and not a single pip. I suspected shrink wrapping...

As an update, I put 8 eggs in lockdown last night! 5 are Bobbi Porto’s (4 blue cream and 1 lem cuckoo!) and I have 3 silkied Easter egger eggs! They are due to hatch on the 21st. I am doing a huge no-no and having a staggered hatch in a single incubator. So I have other eggs still incubating...

Oops I just looked at her page and she does have NN in both her buff pens at the moment 😂 But she does change them around fairly often, maybe by the time you’re ready for more eggs she won’t be hatching them for herself and maybe will have a pen without NN. My eggs from Bobbi are set to hatch...

Thank you so much!!

I had thought this as well, but I think it’s nearly impossible to get shipped lavender chicks from any of the good breeders…. And I came across a hatchery website that ships lavender silkie chicks… guess what the price is? I almost choked when I saw it! $300 per chick, straight run. I literally...

@Debbie292d I have found the same with my hatch percentages being way way lower so far this year on shipped eggs, compared to 4 years ago when I incubated all summer. Ugh I’m so sorry about your quest for buffs that hasn’t been too successful yet! Bobbi Porto has gorgeous buffs - last I saw...

Thanks @2ndTink ! I don’t know for sure, but the lavender gene is linked to shredded feathers in regular feathered birds (usually it’s just the tail feathers looking ragged) so maybe adding that gene in with silkies who already have shredded feathers creates extra fragility? That’s the only...

Urg so frustrated! I ordered two batches of hatching eggs, both were supposed to arrive on Wednesday. Well, the first box arrived two days early (!!!) on Monday! It came from Florida. That was a lovely surprise. (Although I’m not sure those eggs have any chance because they have very large air...

The girls and their set up, and the mottled chicks a few days after hatching.