silkies #incubating #lockdown

  1. motherhen3000

    Should I Assist?

    This chick popped yesterday at 10am and it’s currently 6:28am the next day. The membrane seems to be yellowing, should I assist? You can see the beak in there moving and it does seem to be moving a bit fast, so is it just still absorbing the yolk? I don’t want to be premature on this? I have 4...
  2. motherhen3000

    Did I mess up?

    Hello all, first time hatching out silkies. I’m using the NR360. The whole time the humidity has been at 40-45 and on day 3 I bumped it up to 60-65%. I candled them at day 18 and saw movement and we were seeing wiggling on the outside of the eggs, but now, day 20, we aren’t seeing the eggs...
  3. Gigicoco05

    Silkies/Weird Air Sacks

    Hello! I’m new to incubating chickens. I’ve only ever incubated quails once. However, my silkies eggs are on day 14. I heard that with silkies it was best to put them in to lockdown earlier. I planned to put them in on day 15 (tomorrow.) But when I was candeling them today I noticed how their...
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