New silkie wannabe-mama here 🐣

[arwoon]

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.

It does look like double yolk, @Ceciliasflock (I hope you don't mind, I just think Clover's story is incredible and encouraging) had a chick from a hatchery that was an absorbed twin. You can find the page here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/posts/24128191

Welcome to BYC!! So glad you joined us!

I think you should continue to incubate and hope.

 

[CluckerFamily]

Welcome to BYC!!

 

[Lemon-Drop]

Hi and welcome to BYC! This is a great community of chicken lovers. Feel free to ask any questions you may have!

Silkies are so cute!

 

[Sammi_0411]

Hi from England ! Welcome to BYC its lovely to have you here silkies are great aint they
Sam xx

 

[drumstick diva]

Welcome to Backyard Chickens Sanna, thank you for joining the flock.

 

[Pork Pie]

Hi Sanna and welcome to BYC. Good luck with your hatch. Make yourself at home and enjoy the forums.

Best wishes

Pork Pie

 

[swampfox440]

Welcome to BYC !

 

[chrissynemetz]

Welcome to BYC Sanna! Good luck with your hatch!

 

[Sannasilkie]

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.

Thank you, I really hope you’re right. From all I read there seems to be just that one video showing successful hatch and even that has no follow up about survival.

Fingers crossed

 

[Sannasilkie]

Thank you for all the warm welcomes, happy to be here. I was relieved to find out that there are so many of you like minded birdies

I only wish I had a farm house and space to keep all sorts of birds

We have a canal at the end of the the garden and there is a flock of wild Muscovy ducks that have adopted me to be their mama. Husband is cursing them pooping all around his wooden deck but secretly loves those little buggers, always feeding them when I’m away and talking to them