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I candled and tossed them, glad I did because when I cracked them outside- peeeeee yewww

Well, so far I have five beautiful buff Silkies, all with GORGEOUS feet and vaulted heads! Very poofy already- love it. Then there is the weirdly colored baby, it's got partridge markings but is white. It came from a blue sizzle hen and a white silkie roo. Go figure. It is beautiful, whatever...

Well that confuses me even more! My temps ran way low for half the hatch, normally for most of it, then high at times. I haven't been able to get the humidity above 55%. This stuff is so complicated, isn't it! I just got in from cleaning stalls and chicks 1 and 3 are snuggled up in the food...

Well, poor Chick #3 passed about five minutes after hatching. I buried him in the back yard. I think he was just not meant to make it. Good news is, I went out to get my car from the shop ($700 OMG), and go home to a VERY energetic little buff baby with a very lusty PEEP. Big and beautiful, also...

There wasn't any yolk left behind though. The egg shell had a bit of blood in the bottom though. I went back and looked and after being dried off a little more, the bleeding has stopped and the hole is close to the same as the others- not really a hole exactly. Hard to describe. He is very limp...

Chicky #3 came out with a lot of blood on his butt, and what looks like an open hole (not his vent) between his legs. It was enough blood to make 2 quarter sized stains when I used a washcloth to blot it. The other two had tony little drops of blood there, and a much smaller hole (barely a hole...

11 left to either hatch or not hatch. Most have pips, one has several pips.

Chick #2 is out, a beautiful, tiny little buff Silkie! This is just so exciting. My kids and I watched this one pop free of the egg. Amazing.

Good luck to you too! I hope we get pics of your baby ducks, nothing cuter than a baby duck. I'm still in shock something actually hatched. After the egg-tastrophe last time, I was pretty turned off incubation. Now I feel the need to get more eggs.

Oh, and he's vaulted!!!

I have a baby!!! First to hatch was the one random egg I threw in with the breeder's buff Silkies. The hen is my blue Sizzle, Fizzle. Daddy was one of two white Silkie roos. Baby is a weird color, almost white with a chipmunk stripe. I've name it Shizzle. I can't tell if it's frizzled or not...

OMG 3 pips!!!! And peeping! Loud, irritable peeping! Babies! I can't wait!

My first hatch was a disaster, resulting in a bunch of shrink wrapped, fully formed, beautiful, but dead Silkie chicks. This hatch has gone better, not so many temp spikes and I've gone crazy keeping the humidity up (with sponges, wet paper towels, and dishes of water, no more room to add...