pretty new and pretty confused??

[chicken head34]

Okay so i have a silkie roo and two silkie hens... well one of my hens keeps laying on eggs but when i candle them i see nothing but spots ( i looked at one of the threads about egg candleing and my eggs look nothing like that) So im confused??? am i doing something wrong??? is it the rooster or hen??? they lay eggs all the time but never hatched before... please help me!!

 

[debilorrah]

How old is your trio. Silkies take much longer to mature than other breeds.

 

[chicken head34]

The roos about a year old... and the hens were bought july, 25 and when i got them they where already 2 months old. Are they to young?

 

[debilorrah]

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They are probably just starting to lay fully mature eggs. Have you cracked any open to check fertility?

 

[ScissorChick]

...Are you incubating them first?

They have to be incubated for a few days before you can actually see somthing.

 

[chicken head34]

I never cracked any open... how can you tell if there fertile when you crack them? and no most of the time i take them out of the pen and incubate them but she was laying on theses so i decided to candle them and see if anything was in there.

 

[ScissorChick]

They have to be either sat on, or incubated for atleast 7-8 days before you can actually start

seeing anything inside.

 

[chicken head34]

shes been sitting on them for about two weeks

 

[ScissorChick]

Are they dark colored eggs?

 

[debilorrah]

Checking fertility when cracking an egg open: A non-fertile egg has a white dot. A fertile egg has a small ring around the white dot, like a bullseye.