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it is to early! what color are your eggs? some colors are more difficult to see.
it is to early! what color are your eggs? some colors are more difficult to see.
Need A Hatch Buddy.. Anyone Setting Today 2/26?
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No but I set mine on the 24th...here's my first really good Candling photo of a Blue Silkie due 03/17
Good luck on your hatch!!!
No but I set mine on the 24th...here's my first really good Candling photo of a Blue Silkie due 03/17
Good luck on your hatch!!!
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welcome neighbor. I live in New Hampshire. I use a little water to dry hatch. as long as the humidity is correct it will work. little smears will be fine. I have a hen on eggs right now. she occasionally poops in her nestbox. big smears on eggs and they are very alive.
welcome neighbor. I live in New Hampshire. I use a little water to dry hatch. as long as the humidity is correct it will work. little smears will be fine. I have a hen on eggs right now. she occasionally poops in her nestbox. big smears on eggs and they are very alive.
I set 23 mixed eggs for a friend on 2/26!
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No but I set mine on the 24th...here's my first really good Candling photo of a Blue Silkie due 03/17
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/80356_photo.jpg
Good luck on your hatch!!!
Awesome photo! Can't wait to see your little ones - and everyone else's - when they hatch!
No but I set mine on the 24th...here's my first really good Candling photo of a Blue Silkie due 03/17
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/80356_photo.jpg
Good luck on your hatch!!!
Awesome photo! Can't wait to see your little ones - and everyone else's - when they hatch!
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Is it ok to do this? Coco (my EE hen) hasn't been laying a lot and if she lays one tomorrow I'd like to sneak it in. Only 2 of my 32 eggs are hers
I will be hatching in a different bator. eggs are transfered when they go into lockdown. I also have 30 silkie hens so if anyone goes broody they will get eggs from the bator. I start them and the girls finish them whenever possible. I set eggs in the bator and under a hen at the same time. that way if the hen has any duds I can replace it with good eggs that are at the same point of development. I figure if a girl is going to sit still for 3 solid weeks, she should get all the kids she wants. If I get a bad first time mom I take the babies and put them with mine.
Is it ok to do this? Coco (my EE hen) hasn't been laying a lot and if she lays one tomorrow I'd like to sneak it in. Only 2 of my 32 eggs are hers
I will be hatching in a different bator. eggs are transfered when they go into lockdown. I also have 30 silkie hens so if anyone goes broody they will get eggs from the bator. I start them and the girls finish them whenever possible. I set eggs in the bator and under a hen at the same time. that way if the hen has any duds I can replace it with good eggs that are at the same point of development. I figure if a girl is going to sit still for 3 solid weeks, she should get all the kids she wants. If I get a bad first time mom I take the babies and put them with mine.
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Is it ok to do this? Coco (my EE hen) hasn't been laying a lot and if she lays one tomorrow I'd like to sneak it in. Only 2 of my 32 eggs are hers
I will be hatching in a different bator. eggs are transfered when they go into lockdown. I also have 30 silkie hens so if anyone goes broody they will get eggs from the bator. I start them and the girls finish them whenever possible. I set eggs in the bator and under a hen at the same time. that way if the hen has any duds I can replace it with good eggs that are at the same point of development. I figure if a girl is going to sit still for 3 solid weeks, she should get all the kids she wants. If I get a bad first time mom I take the babies and put them with mine.
Sounds like you have the perfect system going there; good for you!
Silkies are my absolute favorites. In fact, I have one that sleeps in the laundry room every night in a crate, and then goes out to free-range during the day. The other hen was coming in with her, but she's since taken up residence in a small coop/run we have and is sitting on 4 eggs. I was beginning to wonder if she was going to actually stay broody, but she's been at it longer this time than any other (going on day 5 now), so I have high hopes for her. She's young, but I think she's finally got this broody thing figured out
I'll be pulling my eggs from the incubator and putting them in the new hatcher that DH made for me this past weekend. It's a small wine refrigerator that I found on Freecycle, and will be the perfect place to hatch the eggs, since it has a big glass door on the front where we can watch all the action. He's going to add a shelf inside tomorrow night to hold my water tray, and run some tubing to it from the outside, and then we'll be all set when it comes time to move these eggs over
Is it ok to do this? Coco (my EE hen) hasn't been laying a lot and if she lays one tomorrow I'd like to sneak it in. Only 2 of my 32 eggs are hers
I will be hatching in a different bator. eggs are transfered when they go into lockdown. I also have 30 silkie hens so if anyone goes broody they will get eggs from the bator. I start them and the girls finish them whenever possible. I set eggs in the bator and under a hen at the same time. that way if the hen has any duds I can replace it with good eggs that are at the same point of development. I figure if a girl is going to sit still for 3 solid weeks, she should get all the kids she wants. If I get a bad first time mom I take the babies and put them with mine.
Sounds like you have the perfect system going there; good for you!
I'll be pulling my eggs from the incubator and putting them in the new hatcher that DH made for me this past weekend. It's a small wine refrigerator that I found on Freecycle, and will be the perfect place to hatch the eggs, since it has a big glass door on the front where we can watch all the action. He's going to add a shelf inside tomorrow night to hold my water tray, and run some tubing to it from the outside, and then we'll be all set when it comes time to move these eggs over
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No but I set mine on the 24th...here's my first really good Candling photo of a Blue Silkie due 03/17
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/80356_photo.jpg
Good luck on your hatch!!!
AWESOME candling photo! Was that egg about 5-7 days into incubation? Happy baby growing in there
GOOD LUCK on your hatch!
No but I set mine on the 24th...here's my first really good Candling photo of a Blue Silkie due 03/17
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/80356_photo.jpg
Good luck on your hatch!!!
AWESOME candling photo! Was that egg about 5-7 days into incubation? Happy baby growing in there
GOOD LUCK on your hatch!
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Wow the PO was not so nice to my eggs
Candled last night (day 3)...
Air cells are separated, but some may stabilize.
There are 5 growing (nice veining)
There are 6 "maybe's"
The rest are clear. I hatched out a partridge silkie a few months back that had the most damaged air cell I have ever seen. I had to keep the egg in weird positions to try to stabilize the cell. She needed help hatching but is the most beautiful, sweet, bird and is very healthy. So broken air cells don't scare me too much, its if the embryo was damaged (that we can't see) that is what I am concerned with. I will candle again at day 7 to really confirm.
Air cells are separated, but some may stabilize.
There are 5 growing (nice veining)
There are 6 "maybe's"
The rest are clear. I hatched out a partridge silkie a few months back that had the most damaged air cell I have ever seen. I had to keep the egg in weird positions to try to stabilize the cell. She needed help hatching but is the most beautiful, sweet, bird and is very healthy. So broken air cells don't scare me too much, its if the embryo was damaged (that we can't see) that is what I am concerned with. I will candle again at day 7 to really confirm.
I did I set 48 on 2/26. They are eggs from my stock. Hoping to sell the chicks to re-coop some money from the purchase of my new bator.
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