MARCH 2021 HATCH-A-LONG 🌷🌸🌼

The Cave · Mar 3, 2021

ChloeSilkie08 said:
Silkies are hatching tomorrow! 9 in total!

What's going on! Too excited, silkie babies!!

My shipped eggs came a day early and the box was so well labelled they got the royalty treatment :celebrate

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I am going to put them in the incubator tomorrow morning....if my air cells look good I might just let them auto turn from the get go, any opinions on that? I know a lot of people do slight twists in egg carton vs let the turner do the job at first with shipped eggs.

I candled my silkie eggs and I actually have 11 still going out of 12. Only 1 was infertile! Go silkies!

LadiesAndJane · Mar 3, 2021

The Cave said:
What's going on! Too excited, silkie babies!!

My shipped eggs came a day early and the box was so well labelled they got the royalty treatment .

I am going to put them in the incubator tomorrow morning....if my air cells look good I might just let them auto turn from the get go, any opinions on that? I know a lot of people do slight twists in egg carton vs let the turner do the job at first with shipped eggs.

I candled my silkie eggs and I actually have 11 still going out of 12. Only 1 was infertile! Go silkies!

Can't wait to see all the silkie fluffnuggets!

ChloeSilkie08 · Mar 3, 2021

The Cave said:
What's going on! Too excited, silkie babies!!

My shipped eggs came a day early and the box was so well labelled they got the royalty treatment .

I am going to put them in the incubator tomorrow morning....if my air cells look good I might just let them auto turn from the get go, any opinions on that? I know a lot of people do slight twists in egg carton vs let the turner do the job at first with shipped eggs.

I candled my silkie eggs and I actually have 11 still going out of 12. Only 1 was infertile! Go silkies!

5 or 6 out of the 9 have pipped and I hear them chirping!
I haven't ever gotten shipped eggs or used an auto turner so I really can't help you with that.
That's so exciting!

ChloeSilkie08 · Mar 3, 2021

LadiesAndJane said:
Can't wait to see all the silkie fluffnuggets!

Me too! I'm hoping that they are super cool colors but since I'm so eggcited about it they'll probably all be white! LOL

LadiesAndJane · Mar 3, 2021

The Cave said:
My shipped eggs came a day early and the box was so well labelled they got the royalty treatment .

I am going to put them in the incubator tomorrow morning....if my air cells look good I might just let them auto turn from the get go, any opinions on that? I know a lot of people do slight twists in egg carton vs let the turner do the job at first with shipped eggs.

Good article here on incubating and hatching shipped eggs. Many different opinions on how to go about it.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...hatching-chicken-eggs-aka-hatching-101.64195/

kelseyk · Mar 3, 2021

The Cave said:
What's going on! Too excited, silkie babies!!

My shipped eggs came a day early and the box was so well labelled they got the royalty treatment .

I am going to put them in the incubator tomorrow morning....if my air cells look good I might just let them auto turn from the get go, any opinions on that? I know a lot of people do slight twists in egg carton vs let the turner do the job at first with shipped eggs.

I candled my silkie eggs and I actually have 11 still going out of 12. Only 1 was infertile! Go silkies!

I have always let my shipped eggs rest for 24 hours air cell up and then put them in my incubator with the turner on. I really have not had any problems doing it that way.

jeapa · Mar 3, 2021

I candled the 16 barnyard mixes from my flock last night and I was able to see the start of development on some of the eggs!! Some were harder to see, and a couple I suspect are not fertile. These are due to hatch on 3/20. I have 16 Pita Pintas eggs that I received on Monday morning. I let them rest for about 8 hours and then candled then to see what the air cells looked like. I think 4 were saddled and there were 4 others I could not tell at all. The other 8 looked pretty good but a little larger then I thought they should be. They were in shipping for 5 days so I decided to go ahead and put them in the incubator and just not turn them for a couple days.

I really hope I get some chicks from those eggs!!

gimmie birdies · Mar 3, 2021

I am just about on day six, 11 in incubator, one is questionable. It has development and veins but looks like it is starting to clump... another I see it looking like a day six, but I just cannot see the veins. I am going to keep both in incubator. And check them tomorrow.