New silkie wannabe-mama here 🐣

[Sannasilkie]

Hi everyone!

I’m Sanna, originally from Finland but live in the Netherlands with my Italian husband, 2 kids and a French bulldog. We recently moved out of the city and have now a small garden so I decided to finally realize my lifelong dream of incubating some eggs last summer visiting a nearby farm I saw my first silkie chickens and just loved how funny and cute they are. After bit of searching I found sellers of eggs online and got some sent from Germany. She sent me 8 eggs but sadly none were fertile/ developing. She then sent me 7 more, one had a crack, 5 have a yolk but no development and one single egg had clear veins and development. I’ve been candling it few times and I really hope this isn’t twins, hoping you can help

these pictures were taken just couple of hours ago, today is day 11 in the incubator.

 

[DucksAreBest]

Hello, Sanna, welcome to BackYard Chickens! Thank you for joining our community. @MGG
To me it looks like a double yolker.

 

[sourland]

Hello, Sanna, and welcome to BYC. It does look like two developing embryos.

 

[Sannasilkie]

Oh no, from what I have been able to find on the forum I understand the chances of success are very very slim?

 

[janiedoe]

Hello Sanna, welcome to BYC! Slim chance but I've read about one successful hatch.
Best of luck.

 

[DobieLover]

Hello, Sanna, and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

Welcome to our FUNomenal Community!

Best Wishes & Be Well!

 

[HKG]

 

[MGG]

Hi everyone!

I’m Sanna, originally from Finland but live in the Netherlands with my Italian husband, 2 kids and a French bulldog. We recently moved out of the city and have now a small garden so I decided to finally realize my lifelong dream of incubating some eggs last summer visiting a nearby farm I saw my first silkie chickens and just loved how funny and cute they are. After bit of searching I found sellers of eggs online and got some sent from Germany. She sent me 8 eggs but sadly none were fertile/ developing. She then sent me 7 more, one had a crack, 5 have a yolk but no development and one single egg had clear veins and development. I’ve been candling it few times and I really hope this isn’t twins, hoping you can help

these pictures were taken just couple of hours ago, today is day 11 in the incubator.

I do not think that it's a double yolker.
Around day 9-12, chicken embryos kinda stretch out in a funny way. It can appear to be twins, but in reality is not. The first time I saw it, I was convinced there were twins in 3 of my eggs on day 9. None of them were. They just stretch out weird.
I think you're all good.

 

[416bigbore]

Hello Sanna and welcome to BYC, You found an Awesome poultry Forum to be a part of with many great knowledgeable members who are more then willing to jump in and help you with any questions you may have.