No babies made it. I believe the humidity was too low. On eggtopsy they were all shrink wrapped inside their shells. I didn't open the bator until the end so I know this happened during incubation. No sibling for Miss Pretty so today I am off to buy some chicks. I can't find any bantams so she will have to grow up with LF. I am getting Brahmas. My DH said to get six, three light and three buff, and whoever is not nice to Miss Pretty is getting the gas treatment. Them chicks better be on their best behavior. The big ones will be able to go in with our RIRs when they grow up. I think Miss Pretty will be fine with them because I do have silkies that are a little older than her and sometimes I bring them up and see if I can put them together. The problem has been those babies are with their momma and they scream louder than Miss Pretty when I put them in the brooder box. Miss Pretty will run up to them and get all excited that someone has come to play with her, but it just has not worked out. We looked at chicks yesterday and I didn't find anything I wanted and these just came up for sale today. So I would say I'm excited because I like the looks of the Brahmas and from what I read they are supposed to be gentle.
Oh, and since I'm a bad hatcher, I sat eggs under one of my broody silkies today. She has been sitting for a few days so I am going to go ahead and hopefully she stays. It is her first time to be a momma. I have another silkie that went broody over the weekend, but she's not in the best spot. I am going to go out and see if I can make it work where she is and put eggs under her if it does.
My DH says we are going to do a different incubator next time. Says it's too hard to watch me be so dissapointed, even though I told him the incubator was fine, it was me not having the humidity right.
Okay. I'm off to the barn to hopefully sat more eggs.....NEED MORE CHICKS!!!!! Just joking. Am hoping to sell a few for Easter to pay for my new bator.
