Sassy-ChikN Mom
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- Aug 20, 2021
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So my little silkie Roos have been ‘hanging out’ A LOT with one of my silkie hens. She has now become super broody, but kept leaving the nest box and abandoning the eggs, so I started taking them and moving them under a Larger hen that has gone SUPER SUPER broody.
she is currently sitting on 5 silkie eggs. I am so new to having fertilized eggs as I’ve always started with chicks. I did the candle test on them tonight and I saw an air sac & blood vessels in 4 of the 5.
now my momma nerves are setting in. I just bought an incubator a few weeks ago, but have yet to set it up. My questions are:
1. did I do anything to mess up the egg development by clumsily doing the candle test? Like should I have held them a certain way?
2. Is there a certain flashlight that should be used? I used a generic LED household flashlight
3. should I leave the eggs under my broody surrogate momma? Or move them to the incubator?
4. How often should I check the eggs for viability?
thanks in advance! I’m an excited ball of nerves… if that makes sense. LOL
she is currently sitting on 5 silkie eggs. I am so new to having fertilized eggs as I’ve always started with chicks. I did the candle test on them tonight and I saw an air sac & blood vessels in 4 of the 5.
now my momma nerves are setting in. I just bought an incubator a few weeks ago, but have yet to set it up. My questions are:
1. did I do anything to mess up the egg development by clumsily doing the candle test? Like should I have held them a certain way?
2. Is there a certain flashlight that should be used? I used a generic LED household flashlight
3. should I leave the eggs under my broody surrogate momma? Or move them to the incubator?
4. How often should I check the eggs for viability?
thanks in advance! I’m an excited ball of nerves… if that makes sense. LOL