Well our hatch is officially over. I just went and collected the last 5 eggs and candled them and I can assure you there will be no egg autopsies being performed as what's inside seems to have mostly liquified and there is no way I'm smelling that!
So to recap
12 eggs shipped from the opposite side of the country.
2 arrived cracked or broken
3 (including cracked one)didn't fit under penny so had some very hit and miss incubating done in a borrowed incubator that hadn't been set up prior - none developed
8 put under broody - 2 didn't do anything much, 1 stopped round 10 days, 4 stopped round lockdown, 1 hatched. In hind site it would only put 6 under her next time, I think she is actually small even for a silkie and think she struggled to cover them all.
While 1/12 sounds pretty bad, considering the amount of things we learnt as we went along I don't think you could 100% blame the shipping
planning to try again later in the year if she goes broody again as I still don't have my blue australorp and it was a thoroughly enjoyable( if stressful at the end) experience!
I'll post some photos of junior if penny ever let's it out from under her, at the moment it gets roused on every time it tries to poke it's beak out and pushed straight back under lol and then of course starts the saga of is it a boy or a girl
