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So beautiful! I love her already! What a sweet little one.Thank you! Here he/she is! Doesn’t she look just like her momma?!
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So beautiful! I love her already! What a sweet little one.Thank you! Here he/she is! Doesn’t she look just like her momma?!
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I thought the first 3 were small… holy moly she is TINY! I got a better look at her when I moved momma & baby back outside to what has now turned into the “nursery”.So beautiful! I love her already! What a sweet little one.
So glad we could help, and even happier that your babies all came to okay!I thought the first 3 were small… holy moly she is TINY! I got a better look at her when I moved momma & baby back outside to what has now turned into the “nursery”.
she is small but she is mighty…. And a tough little cookie.
thank you all so much for EVERYTHING! Out of 5 eggs, we only lost one. Had it not been for y’all, I don’t know if any would have made it! From the bottom of my heart… thank you.
Will the other hens kill baby chicks?Hey! Id love to help as much as possible, as im decently experinced with this type of thing!
1. nono, dont be to worried. Candling is delicate, but that is truly later on developed, you dont want to shake them around a bunch, the fat side should be down and the skinny at the top
2. No, flashlights arent bad or anything, you need them very bright to get into the shell
3. it can depend, i think id leave them there, its easier that way in my opinion, if you do decide to put them in incubation, it takes time. And do it sooner then later. Before lockdown (day 17 or so)
4. i typically candle them every week or so, dont do it to often (not that its bad, its just more chances of dropping them and such, and its best for nature to take its time!)
and you should be! Congratulations on this! It sounds very exciting, just ask if you have any more questions, im happy to awnser the best i can!
If you’re happy for broody mama to hatch them, save yourself the hassle. Hens do what hens do best. Good luck.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
They have come over out of curiosity, but momma put that to a stop real quick. They are a part of the flock now and even go off on their own a little bit!Will the other hens kill baby chicks?
Cuties! Congrats!Here they are; about a month old now! Compared to a newly hatched silkie. They’ve grown fast and even have their little “pants” now! We lost 2, 1 to a predator and momma squished one…