August Hatch-A-Long!

[Roxannemc]

HI,

Setting 29 or30 (need to recount ) today in the incubator..............
About 1/2 Bo...1/2 SS.
Will throw in a few Seramas if they lay today...
Broody's due Wendsday.
Chicks here , chicks there, chickens, chickens everywhere......................

TRUE TRUE!!

 

[WillowChick]

Hello all!

I thought I'd join the hatch-a-long. I have a batch due Aug 4 or 5. I set 8, but I think only 2 are fertile. I'm giving them 3 or 4 more days before I chuck the duds. I'm using a bantam cochin broody named Phantom. This will be her first hatch

Willow

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

Just did a quick candle while eggs were still in turners. Both paints and all 4 porcelain eggs are fertile !!!!
A lot of the white and partridge are also. I will know more on Sunday when I handle each one and mark air cells!!!
Oh BTW these are silkies!

Seeing life in the eggs is so exciting!

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

Hello all! 

I thought I'd join the hatch-a-long. I have a batch due Aug 4 or 5. I set 8, but I think only 2 are fertile. I'm giving them 3 or 4 more days before I chuck the duds. I'm using a bantam cochin broody named Phantom. This will be her first hatch

Willow

That's about the same odds as mine, I set 30 and 6 were alive when I candled them last night.

 

[jnjmanning]

YEY!!! babies on the way for you ....

I just got into Silkies 3 paints, 2 ??....look like light paints?... and 1 porcelain all babies still
Addicting In themselves! SWEET, CUTE and SOFT

Maybe splashes?

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

Maybe splashes?

Silkie people...do you have a problem with other chickrns picking in the silkies because they are so fluffy and frilly looking? Question is for those who keep regular birds with silkies.

 

[chickydee64]

Silkie people...do you have a problem with other chickrns picking in the silkies because they are so fluffy and frilly looking? Question is for those who keep regular birds with silkies.

I asked a similar question in the Silkie thread recently.................
It seems they do need a few special considerations.
I do not know that others pick on them because they look different.
I think it is more that the Silkies cannot see well to protect themselves
and are a more passive breed putting them at the bottom of the pecking order................

 

[jammyjammy2112]

Yo u wont see much until about day 7 so dont disguard any yet
In fact I never candle until day 10 then again day 17 to make sure what to throw out Rather put a non fertile into lockdown than to throw out a viable baby.

you can see loads on day 2 allone i check loads just to see how the embro grows i just trew does 2 out and i was rigth they were not fertile

 

[BY Chicken Lady]

I asked a similar question in the Silkie thread recently.................
It seems they do need a few special considerations.
I do not know that others pick on them because they look different.
I think it is more that the Silkies cannot see well to protect themselves
and are a more passive breed putting them at the bottom of the pecking order................

Good to know. They are quite adorable and ive heard they are very broody and will hatch anyones eggs.

 

[baseballchick]

Good to know. They are quite adorable and ive heard they are very broody and will hatch anyones eggs.

I have heard that also, however, my silkies are not broody at all :'(