has anyone had any luck with this?stupid yellow dome thingy!!!!!!!!!!!

[MissPrissy]

They can go in the same bator even if they are 5 days apart in hatching.

 

[Justino]

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yeah but i have to raise the hummidity and wouldnt that kill the other silkie eggs?

 

[rosyposyosy]

that is what I was thinkin

 

[Justino]

well look at this
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=30041
they told me wrong i guess

 

[Justino]

tuffoldhen said this

"First ...Do you have a place to finish this hatch with the test egg?...It's going to cause problems in the bator on day 18 when it needs to stop being turned and the humidity needs raised for it...your silkie eggs are 5 days behind it and they don't need their humidity raised so high its too early for them..."​

 

[Tuffoldhen]

I did not tell you wrong...that's exactly what is going to happen .........

 

[silkiechicken]

Everyone does it differently. I don't even monitor humidity or add water in the last week of incubation... however that is how I got my set up to work.

Ideally you get a set up for your single egg ready and up the humidity for that last 3 days. You can do it in the regular bator, but you do risk the eggs already in there. Now will it kill them all, unlikely, but it does increase the risk. You could just not increase the humidity and the silkie eggs will be fine, but you increase the risk to your one egg getting stuck.

It is a balance between the two and there is no one hard fast rules on how you have to do it.

Unless you are experienced, get a second set up at the standard 70% humidity for last three days for your test egg so you don't risk drowning the silkies.

Edit: In addition, if your chick does hatch out in yoru bator with the rest, it will leave some hatching goo on things and that hatching goo very quickly starts to grow bacteria which you don't want to have when your others hatch out 5 days later.

 

[Justino]

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yeah but according to the other ppl above u are lol im really confused...ill listen to u though

 

[Justino]

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ok i really care more about my silkies than test egg but i still wanna hatch it so ill use the 2 bators

 

[Tuffoldhen]

Good luck with whichever way you decide to go.....myself I would not risk trying to hatch Silkie eggs that are 5 days later in development in the same incubator with a test egg that has to have its humidity brought up......my thought ..my opinion...