Hands on hatching and help

[jenniferlamar70]

I will always do my silkie eggs separately. That way I can adjust for them w/o jepordizing others. But that's me. Now the pet quality silkies I have that my sister is supposed to take are more normal sized eggs and those I would incubate with the others with no problems.

These are shipped eggs. Supposed to be breeder quality but we will see. I'd just be happy with one silkie hen. I would prefer standard but I can't find them here. Guess only the UK has them... I just want a few cause their so cute and supposed to be great broody mama's. I think I'll just incubate them alone to be on the safe side.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

These are shipped eggs. Supposed to be breeder quality but we will see. I'd just be happy with one silkie hen. I would prefer standard but I can't find them here. Guess only the UK has them... I just want a few cause their so cute and supposed to be great broody mama's. I think I'll just incubate them alone to be on the safe side.

It's funny cause silkies are notorious for being broody....the four I have, one I hatched out in my first successful hatch in 2014, the other 3 I took from my sister the begining of last summer and not a single one has gone broody. As a matter of fact in my first coop, that has my original 8 hens, I've never had one go broody....now, my second coop with all my hatchers from Easter of last year to now, I'm always fighting broodiness from one or two of them at a time and most of them are mixes, save my sspitz and blakc Jap banty that are often broody. And there's 20 hens in there. And I don't want broody hens...lol

 

[jenniferlamar70]

It's funny cause silkies are notorious for being broody....the four I have, one I hatched out in my first successful hatch in 2014, the other 3 I took from my sister the begining of last summer and not a single one has gone broody. As a matter of fact in my first coop, that has my original 8 hens, I've never had one go broody....now, my second coop with all my hatchers from Easter of last year to now, I'm always fighting broodiness from one or two of them at a time and most of them are mixes, save my sspitz and blakc Jap banty that are often broody. And there's 20 hens in there.  And I don't want broody hens...lol

Lmao that's the way of it. You don't want them their all you get. I want some so I probably won't get any haha

 

[Pyxis]

Well my peafowl eggs are freaking me out, lol. Two, when weighed for their 21 day weigh in, said by their weight that the humidity was not high enough and it needs to be bumped up. The third, however, is not losing enough weight So I went ahead and bumped the humidity for the two that need it and the third I'm going to move into my other Brinsea which I'm running as a dry incubation right now. Sheesh!

On the ducks with chickens front, I do it all the time. Did my welshies in with AC eggs, which are not really that much bigger than silkie eggs. Everyone hatched fine, no humidity issues. I have magpies in with my other eggs right now (some of which are silkies) and the same thing seems to be holding true so far. If you try it though make sure you're watching the air cells and switch some into different incubators if you have to.

I also have turkeys and peafowl in there - I guess this is a game of "how many different species can I incubate at the same time". So far the answer is four

 

[RubyNala97]

She had one sticky patch on her back, but other than that she fluffed out normal. She was the backwards zipper that I had to help all the way out of the shell.

She took four hours from zipping to out! When I took off half the shell, she didn't kick like you would expect her to, which was strange.
-Banti

I'm only asking because the only chick I've lost was one that was very sticky and had swallowed the sticky stuff and it was in his lungs. But he acted very lethargic for days till he passed. Are you going to set more eggs?

Ahhhh not what I wanted to hear. I was hoping I could set 6 duck eggs and 6 silkie eggs. I can put them.in seperate incubators if I need to but I really wanted them to both go in the brinsea cause its such better quality and it has the automatic turner. I figured because of the size difference letting them hatch together would be an issue. In my book it sais bantam eggs need more humidity and it said the same for duck eggs. That's why I thought they would be ok in the same incubator?

I actually have a silkie egg in with my duck eggs right now. But I didn't do it on purpose. Lol. It was an extra egg that slipped under a broody that I did not catch in time. It already had development when I pulled it from under her (her eggs are hatching now) so I couldn't leave it. But I'm monitoring the air cell closely and I have two other incubators I can switch it to if I need to increase the humidity.

These are shipped eggs. Supposed to be breeder quality but we will see. I'd just be happy with one silkie hen. I would prefer standard but I can't find them here. Guess only the UK has them... I just want a few cause their so cute and supposed to be great broody mama's. I think I'll just incubate them alone to be on the safe side.

Which breeder did you get them from? What colors are they?

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm only asking because the only chick I've lost was one that was very sticky and had swallowed the sticky stuff and it was in his lungs. But he acted very lethargic for days till he passed. Are you going to set more eggs?
I actually have a silkie egg in with my duck eggs right now. But I didn't do it on purpose. Lol. It was an extra egg that slipped under a broody that I did not catch in time. It already had development when I pulled it from under her (her eggs are hatching now) so I couldn't leave it. But I'm monitoring the air cell closely and I have two other incubators I can switch it to if I need to increase the humidity.
Which breeder did you get them from? What colors are they?

Interesting.....


Yeah. I have 2 under broodies (one of which has a pip), three in bator #2, and 18 eggs coming soon!


I'm addicted.
-Banti

 

[RubyNala97]

Interesting.....


Yeah. I have 2 under broodies (one of which has a pip), three in bator #2, and 18 eggs coming soon!


I'm addicted.
-Banti

We all are!
I have eggs hatching under a broody as we speak! 2 are out and the last egg is pipped! for our girls! And 18 eggs will keep you busy! They are being shipped or local?

 

[BantyChooks]

We all are!
I have eggs hatching under a broody as we speak! 2 are out and the last egg is pipped! for our girls! And 18 eggs will keep you busy! They are being shipped or local?

Awesome! They are shipped, I won them in a contest so nothing to lose.

 

[RubyNala97]

Awesome! They are shipped, I won them in a contest so nothing to lose.

Perfect! I hope you have a great hatch! I've got 3 incubators running right now! Talk about addiction!....

 

[BantyChooks]

Perfect! I hope you have a great hatch! I've got 3 incubators running right now! Talk about addiction!....

Thank you!