Incubating Silkie eggs questions???

[silkymom1986]

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Thanks for the tip! My husband is incubating wellsummer eggs right now, we went in lockdown last night, he is using paper towel rolls cut up, do you think this will do the same thing as the egg carton or do you think it will be ok? I knows it's too late to do anything now but would like to know what to expect.

 

[wein315]

paper or styrofoam egg cartons?

 

[wein315]

Thank you all for your tips. I just got 8 eggs that were shipped to me all with detached air sacs and i am hoping i will have at least a couple of fuzzys from these!
any advice/tips are APPRECIATED!

 

[Bryam]

Let them sit round side up for a day!

 

[debfarm]

I have tried incubating silkie eggs. The eggs hatch, I leave them in the incubator 24 hrs, take them out and put under a light. The live three days and die. I have water and food for them. This has happened three times. What is happening? Need help, please!!!

 

[darkbluespace]

I have tried incubating silkie eggs. The eggs hatch, I leave them in the incubator 24 hrs, take them out and put under a light. The live three days and die. I have water and food for them. This has happened three times. What is happening? Need help, please!!!

Is it too hot in your brooder... what kind of bulb do you have? Can they get out from under the light?

 

[only1bgirl]

What is the temperature in the brooder and what do you feed them?

 

[sparton]

Using a Brinsea incubator made for seven eggs we had a great first 2 weeks. One late quit then went to lock down. Of the five remaining eggs 2 pipped.

One looks like bad luck and pipped into a blood vessel and died. One hatched clean and is just the cutest (and currently saddest chick). The other 3 never pipped and seemed to die in the last couple days. I gave them an extra couple days for pipping then candled for movement.

I did an eggtopsy today and all looked normal except for a white gunk around them (looked like scrambled egg whites) these eggs are from my two hens and rooster- all were less than a week old when set for incubation.

What could be going wrong? Membranes seemed pliable and not at all stiff. Air sacks were right on par for development... Only thing I can think is the first week we had a problem with the turner being set upside down. Please help. Set my next set of 7 but really don't want one really sad chick again. (going to have to hunt for a buddy for it since we can't just carry it around forever in a pocket which seems to shut it up).

 

[RubyNala97]

Using a Brinsea incubator made for seven eggs we had a great first 2 weeks. One late quit then went to lock down. Of the five remaining eggs 2 pipped.

One looks like bad luck and pipped into a blood vessel and died. One hatched clean and is just the cutest (and currently saddest chick). The other 3 never pipped and seemed to die in the last couple days. I gave them an extra couple days for pipping then candled for movement.

I did an eggtopsy today and all looked normal except for a white gunk around them (looked like scrambled egg whites) these eggs are from my two hens and rooster- all were less than a week old when set for incubation.

What could be going wrong?  Membranes seemed pliable and not at all stiff. Air sacks were right on par for development... Only thing I can think is the first week we had a problem with the turner being set upside down. Please help. Set my next set of 7 but really don't want one really sad chick again. (going to have to hunt for a buddy for it since we can't just carry it around forever in a pocket which seems to shut it up).

Sounds like a humidity issue, as in it was too high. What was your humidity days 1-18? And did you calibrate your hygrometer?