little giant 9300

[bamadude]

Good luck sheep

 

[only1bgirl]

Every single egg (13) are showing signs of development at day 5. Such a difference not dealing with shipped eggs. Shocking really! Now to see how many fully develop and hatch out. This is a good experiment with my incubation techniques. Keeping humidity in 35-45 range this time. Not going to candle again until lockdown, which I will start day 17 since my last hatch of Silkies occurred day 19.

 

[bamadude]

Bgirl: thats great news. What breed are u hatching

 

[TheGeekySheep]

@only1bgirl that's awesome, you are going to be overrun by little silkie babies in no time!

 

[only1bgirl]

Silkies @bamadude, actually found a local gal who generously gave me 13 Buff Silkie eggs. I can only have five birds in the city and no roosters. I chose the Silkies because they're small, flightless hopefully not as noisy and easier for the kids to wrangle, might let them show at the fair too. My neighbor had big birds that constantly escaped and cruised the avenue and everyone for blocks knew when those girls laid an egg, they were entertaining to me but not to all of our neighbors. If they all hatch I'll have to find homes for them, still in disbelief that they all took!¿

 

[TheGeekySheep]

Day 20, I think there should be a corollary to "a watched pot never boils" that is "a watched egg never pips".

 

[bamadude]

Silkies @bamadude, actually found a local gal who generously gave me 13 Buff Silkie eggs. I can only have five birds in the city and no roosters. I chose the Silkies because they're small, flightless hopefully not as noisy and easier for the kids to wrangle, might let them show at the fair too. My neighbor had big birds that constantly escaped and cruised the avenue and everyone for blocks knew when those girls laid an egg, they were entertaining to me but not to all of our neighbors. If they all hatch I'll have to find homes for them, still in disbelief that they all took!¿

thats good. There is a definate difference in shipped eggs. My dw just forced me to get 2 silkies and 2 polish chicks. Im pretty sure my 2 polish are males and they arent in my breeding program

 

[bamadude]

Day 20, I think there should be a corollary to "a watched pot never boils" that is "a watched egg never pips". 

good luck sheep.

 

[only1bgirl]

Thinking about your hatch @TheGeekySheep fingers crossed here, hoping and praying for good news tomorrow morning!

 

[TheGeekySheep]

No pips yet but I just heard a peep! Going to be hard to sleep tonight, haha.

Edit: One external pip this morning! Going to keep an eye on them from work with my camera. This is a full two days later than my last batch hatched, I wonder if shipped eggs just take longer to incubate. Or perhaps they were a degree or so cooler internally since they're upright and not on their sides. I think my next incubation will be circulated air so I won't have to mess with difference in temperature at different heights.